IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award Recipients
2010 - REINALDO A. VALENZUELA
Director, Wireless Communication Research Department
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs
Holmdel, NJ, USA
"For pioneering contributions to multi-antennas systems and microwave propagation."
2009 - ROBERTO PADOVANI
Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer
QUALCOMM, Incorporated
San Diego, CA, USA
“For pioneering innovations in wireless communications, particularly to the evolution of CDMA for wireless broadband data.”
2008 - THOMAS L. KOCH
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Physics
Center for Optical Technologies
Lehigh University
Bethlehem, PA, USA
“For pioneering contributions to optoelectronic technologies and their implementation in optical communications systems”
2007- Co-Recipients:
MICHAEL G. LUBY
Chief Technical Officer
Digital Fountain, Inc.
Fremont, California
and
AMIN SHOKROLLAHI
Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Lausanne, Switzerland
“For bridging mathematics, internet design and mobile broadcasting as well as successful standardization.”
2006 - Co-Recipients:
ROBERT A. SCHOLTZ
Fred H. Cole Professor
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
and
MOE Z. WIN
Associate Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
"For pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology."
2005 -KRISHAN SABNANI
Senior Vice President, Networking Research, Bell Labs
Lucent Technologies
Holmdel, NJ
"For seminal contributions to networking protocols."
2004 - GERARD J. FOSCHINI
Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies
Holmdel, NJ
"For innovation and outstanding contributions to communication theory, in particular on multi-element antenna technology for high spectral-efficiency communications."
2003 - Co-Recipients:
WERNER BUX
Manager, Dept of Communication Systems, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Ruschlikon, Switzerland
and
HANS R. MUELLER
Retired, Langnau, Switzerland
"For contributions to the design, development and standardization of the token-ring local area network."
2002 - JOHN MIDWINTER
Pender Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, University College London and President, IEE, London, UNITED KINGDOM
and
TSUNEO NAKAHARA
Advisor and CEO, Sumitomo Electric Industries. Ltd.
Osaka, JAPAN
'For pioneering contributions to the physical understanding, manufacture, and deployment of optical fiber communications systems.'
2001 - NOT AWARDED
2000 - NOT AWARDED
1999 - HOWARD FRANK
Director, Information Technology Office
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Arlington, Va., USA
and
IVAN T. FRISCH
Provost, Polytechnic University
Brooklyn, N.Y., USA
'For innovative contributions to modelling and design of communications networks.'
1998 - DONALD L. DUTTWEILER,
DEBASIS MITRA
Lucent Technologies - Holmdel, NJ
and
MAN MOHAN SONDHI
Lucent Technologies - Murray Hill, NJ
'For the conception and development of voice echo cancelers.'
1997 - JEAN-PIERRE COUDREUSE
Mitsubishi Information Technology Center - Rennes, France
'For fundamental contributions to broadband communications by Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).'
