IEEE Eric E. Sumner award
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The IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE. It was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1995. It may be presented annually, to an individual or a team of not more than three people, for outstanding contributions to communications technology. It is named in honor of Eric E. Sumner
, 1991 IEEE President.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Eric E. Sumner
Eric Eden Sumner was an Austrian engineer and scientist, well known for hiscontributions to the early developments of switching systems.Born in Vienna, he moved to New York City where he went to...
, 1991 IEEE President.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
Recipients
List of award recipients and citation in chronological order:- 2012 - Co-Recipients: Jack H. Winters, Managing Member, Jack Winters Communications LLC, and Andreas F. Molisch, Full Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, For contributions to the theory and application of mulitple-antenna systems in wireless communication systems.
- 2011 - H. Vincent Poor, Michael Henry Strater University Professor and Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University, For pioneering contributions to multiple-access communications.
- 2010 - Reinaldo Valenzuela, Director of Wireless Communications, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, For pioneering contributions to multi antennas systems and microwave propagation.
- 2009 - Roberto Padovani, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer. QUALCOMMQualcommQualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in 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 UniversityLehigh UniversityLehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...
, For pioneering contributions to optoelectronic technologies and their implementation in optical communications systems.
- 2007 - Co-Recipients: Micheal G. Luby, CTO Digital Fountain Inc. and Amin ShokrollahiAmin ShokrollahiAmin Shokrollahi is a mathematician who has worked on a variety of topics including coding theory, and algebraic complexity theory. He is best known for his work on iterative decoding of graph based codes for which he received the IEEE Information Theory Best Paper Award of 2002...
, Professor of Mathematics & Computer Science, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de LausanneÉcole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneThe École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.The school was founded by the Swiss Federal Government with the stated mission to:...
, For bridging mathematics, internet design and mobile broadcasting as well as successful standardization.
- 2006 - Co-Recipients: Robert A. ScholtzRobert A. ScholtzRobert A. Scholtz is a distinguished professor of Electrical engineering at University of Southern California, known for ultra-wideband and spread spectrum communications....
, Fred H. Cole Professor, University of Southern CaliforniaUniversity of Southern CaliforniaThe University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...
and Moe Z. WinMoe Z. WinMoe Z. Win is a Burmese-American mathematician and electrical engineer known for his work in wireless communications. He is currently an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.His awards and recognitions include the following:...
, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyThe Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
, For pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology.
- 2005 - Krishan SabnaniKrishan SabnaniKrishan Sabnani is an Indian-American engineer and Senior Vice President of the Networking Research Laboratory at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in New Jersey. He manages several research teams based in the US, UK, Ireland, Belgium, France, Germany, and India...
, Senior Vice President, Networking Research, Bell Labs Lucent Technologies, For seminal contributions to networking protocols.
- 2004 - Gerard J. FoschiniGerard J. FoschiniGerard Joseph Foschini , is an American telecommunications engineer who has worked for Bell Laboratories since 1961. His research has covered many kinds of data communications, particularly wireless communications and optical communications. Foschini has also worked on point-to-point systems and...
, Bell Laboratories/Lucent Technologies, 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 and Hans R. Mueller 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 LondonUniversity College LondonUniversity College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
and President, IEEIEEIEE may stand for:* Integrated Enterprise Excellence, an Industrial Engineering system documented in books by Forrest W. Breyfogle III* Institution of Electrical Engineers, in engineering, now part of the Institution of Engineering and Technology...
, and Tsuneo NakaharaTsuneo Nakaharais a communications engineer, executive advisor to the CEO of Sumitomo Electric. He was one of the main researchers contributing to the development of optical fiber technology.He earned his B.E. in 1953 and his Ph.D...
, Advisor and CEO, Sumitomo Electric Industries, For pioneering contributions to the physical understanding, manufacture, and deployment of optical fiber communications systems.
- 2001 - NOT AWARDED
- 2000 - NOT AWARDED
- 1999 - Howard FrankHoward FrankSir Howard George Frank, 1st Baronet GBE KCB was an English estate agent and public servant.Frank was born in Blackhurst, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. He was educated at Marlborough College and then entered the estate agency profession, in which he remained all his life, eventually becoming recognised...
Director, Information Technology Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects AgencyDefense Advanced Research Projects AgencyThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military...
and Ivan T. Frisch, Provost, Polytechnic University, For innovative contributions to modelling and design of communications networks.
- 1998 - Donald L. Duttweiler, Debasis MitraDebasis MitraDebasis Mitra is an Indian mathematician, known for his numerous contributions to the theory of communication systems, control theory and queueing theory.He got his B.Sc. and Ph.D...
, and Man Mohan Sondhi, Lucent Technologies, For the conception and development of voice echo cancelers.
- 1997 - Jean-Pierre Coudreuse, Mitsubishi Information Technology Center, For fundamental contributions to broadband communications by Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).