IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
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The IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE established in 1986. This award has been presented annually since 1988 for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and communications.
The award is named in honor of Koji Kobayashi, who has been a leading force in advancing the integrated use of computers and communications.
The award may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients or team of up to three people.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
The award is sponsored by NEC
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The award is named in honor of Koji Kobayashi, who has been a leading force in advancing the integrated use of computers and communications.
The award may be presented to an individual, multiple recipients or team of up to three people.
Recipients of this award receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
The award is sponsored by NEC
NEC
, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....
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Recipients
- 1988: Stuart Wecker
- 1989: Alexander G. FraserAlexander G. FraserAlexander G. Fraser, also known as A. G. Fraser and Sandy Fraser, is a noted British-American computer scientist.Fraser received his B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Bristol University in 1958, and his Ph.D. in Computing Science from Cambridge University in 1969...
- 1990: Elwyn R. BerlekampElwyn BerlekampElwyn Ralph Berlekamp is an American mathematician. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley. Berlekamp is known for his work in information theory and combinatorial game theory....
- 1991: Stephen S. Lavenberg
- 1991: Martin Reiser
- 1992: Vinton G. Cerf
- 1992: Robert E. Kahn
- 1993: Gottfried UngerboeckGottfried UngerboeckGottfried Ungerboeck is an Austrian communications engineer.Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, in 1970...
- 1994: Jonathan Shields Turner
- 1995: Norman AbramsonNorman AbramsonNorman Abramson is an American engineer and computer scientist, most known for developing the ALOHAnet system for wireless computer communication....
- 1996: K. Mani ChandyK. Mani ChandyKanianthra Mani Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989....
- 1997: Tim Berners-LeeTim Berners-LeeSir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
- 1998: Jack Keil WolfJack Keil WolfJack Keil Wolf was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory.-Biography:Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Ph.D...
- 1999: Whitfield DiffieWhitfield DiffieBailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie is an American cryptographer and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography.Diffie and Martin Hellman's paper New Directions in Cryptography was published in 1976...
- 1999: Martin HellmanMartin HellmanMartin Edward Hellman is an American cryptologist, and is best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle...
- 1999: Ralph Charles Merkle
- 2000: Ronald L. Rivest
- 2000: Adi ShamirAdi ShamirAdi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm , a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer...
- 2000: Leonard AdlemanLeonard AdlemanLeonard Max Adleman is an American theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California. He is known for being a co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem in 1977, and of DNA computing...
- 2001: John M. Cioffi
- 2002: Van JacobsonVan JacobsonVan Jacobson is one of the primary contributors to the TCP/IP protocol stack which is the technological foundation of today’s Internet. He is renowned for his pioneering achievements in network performance and scaling....
- 2003: Bruce Hajek
- 2004: No Award
- 2005: Frank Kelly
- 2006: Nicholas F. MaxemchukNicholas F. MaxemchukProfessor Nicholas F. Maxemchuk is a noted American electrical engineer.Dr. Maxemchuk graduated from the City College of New York in 1968 with a Bachelor of Engineering , received his Masters degree in 1970 from the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and...
- 2007: Donald F. Towsley
- 2008: Don Coppersmith
- 2009: Nick McKeownNick McKeownNicholas William McKeown, better known as Nick McKeown, is an English-American expert in computer networking. His career includes both education and starting companies in Silicon Valley.-Biography:Nick McKeown was born April 7, 1963 in Bedford, England....
- 2010: Larry L. PetersonLarry L. PetersonProf. Larry L. Peterson is a noted American computer scientist at Princeton University, in Princeton, New Jersey.Dr. Peterson received his B.S. in Computer Science from Kearney State College, Nebraska, in 1979, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1982 and 1985,...
- 2011: Thomas J. Richardson
- 2011: Rüediger L. Urbanke
- 2012: Jean Walrand