IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award Recipients

IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award

2008 - DON COPPERSMITH
Research Staff Member
CCR Princeton
Princeton, NJ, USA

“For outstanding achievement and ground breaking contributions in computational complexity and the theory and practice of cryptography”

2007 - DONALD F. TOWSLEY
Distinguished Professor
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA

“For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of computers and communication networks”

2006 - NICHOLAS F. MAXEMCHUK
Professor, Columbia University
New York, NY

"For contributions to Metropolitan and Local Area Networks, reliable multicast, and protocol testing."

2005 - FRANK KELLY
Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England

'For contributions to the development of fundamental theories for the understanding, performance evaluation, and enhancement of telecommunications networks.'

2004 - NOT AWARDED

2003 - BRUCE HAJEK
Founders Professor of Engrg, College of Engrg Prof, Dept of Elec & Comp Engrg, Research Prof, Coord Science Lab
Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

"For the application of stochastic and probabilistic theory to improved understanding of computer-network behavior, particularly, the modeling and performance optimization of multiple-access channels."

2002 - VAN JACOBSON
Chief Scientist, Packet Design, Menlo Park, California, USA

'For major contributions to the understanding of network congestion, and the development of congestion control mechanisms, enabling the successful scaling of the Internet.'

2001 - JOHN M. CIOFFI
Stanford University - Stanford, CA

'For contributions to the development of asynchronous digital subscriber line technology, and supporting theory.'

2000
RONALD LINN RIVEST
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Arlington, VA
and
ADI SHAMIR
Weizmann Institute of Science - Rehovot, Israel
and
LEONARD ADLEMAN
University of Southern California - Northridge, CA

'For the revolutionary invention of the RSA public key cryptosystem which is the first to be widely-adopted.'

1999
WHITFIELD DIFFIE
Sun Microsystems - Palo Alto, CA
and
MARTIN E. HELLMAN
Stanford University - Stanford, CA
and
RALPH CHARLES MERKLE
Xerox PARC - Sunnyvale, CA

'For the revolutionary invention of public key cryptosystems which form the foundation for privacy, integrity and authentication in modern communication systems.'

1998 - JACK K. WOLF
University of California - San Diego, CA

'For fundamental contributions to multi-user communications and applications of coding theory to magnetic data storage devices.'

1997 - TIMOTHY JOHN BERNERS-LEE
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology - Cambridge, MA

'For conceiving and pioneering the World-Wide Web.'

1996 - KANIANTHRA (MANI) CHANDY
California Inst. of Technology - Pasadena, CA

'For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of computer and communications performance modeling.'

1995 - NORMAN ABRAMSON
Database Associates - Honolulu, HI

'For development of the concept of the Aloha System, which led to modern local area networks.'

1994 - JONATHAN SHIELDS TURNER
Washington University - St. Louis, MO

'For fundamental contributions to communications and computing through architectural innovation in high-speed packet networks.'

1993 - GOTTFRIED UNGERBOECK
IBM Zürich Research Lab. - Rüschlikon, Switzerland

'For contributions to signal processing for data communications, specifically for pioneering trellis-coded modulation.'

1992 - VINTON G. CERF

AND

ROBERT E. KAHN
Corp. for Nat'l Res. Initiatives - Reston, VA

'For the creation of the concept of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol architecture for packet switched internetting.'

1991 - STEPHEN S. LAVENBERG
IBM Corp.
Yorktown Hgts., NY

AND

MARTIN REISER
IBM Zürich, Switzerland

'For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of computer and communications systems performance modeling.'

1990 - ELWYN R. BERLEKAMP
Cyclotomics, Inc., Berkeley, CA

'For profound contributions, in mathematical theory and engineering practice, to error-correcting codes for communications and data storage.'

1989 - ALEXANDER G. FRASER
AT&T Bell Labs. - Murray Hill, NJ

'For contributions to computer communications and the invention of virtual-circuit switching.'

1988 - STUART WECKER
Bell Atlantic Co., Sudbury, MA

'For contributions to distributed computer network architectures and protocol.'