The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring "exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering" in the field of telecommunications. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for achievements in telecommunication sciences and engineering.
It was instituted in 1976 by the directors of IEEE, commemorating the centennial of the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. The award is presented either to an individual, or to a team of two or three persons.
The institute's reasoning for the award was described thus:
Recipients of the award receive a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and an honorarium.
Recipients As listed by the IEEE:
1976 Amos E. Joel, Jr., William Keister, and Raymond W. Ketchledge 1977 Eberhardt Rechtin 1978 M. Robert Aaron, John S. Mayo, and Eric E. Sumner 1979 A. Christian Jacobaeus 1980 Richard R. Hough 1981 David Slepian 1982 Harold A. Rosen 1983 Stephen O. Rice 1984 Andrew J. Viterbi 1985 Charles K. Kao 1986 Bernard Widrow 1987 Joel S. Engel, Richard H. Frenkiel, and William C. Jakes, Jr. 1988 Robert M. Metcalfe 1989 Gerald R. Ash and Billy B. Oliver 1990 Paul Baran 1991 C. Chapin Cutler, John O. Limb, and Arun N. Netravali 1992 James L. Massey 1993 Donald C. Cox 1994 Hiroshi Inose 1995 Irwin M. Jacobs 1996 Tadahiro Sekimoto 1997 Vinton G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn 1998 Richard E. Blahut 1999 David G. Messerschmitt 2000 Vladimir A. Kotelnikov
2002 Tsuneo Nakahara 2003 Joachim Hagenauer
2005 Jim K. Omura 2006 John Wozencraft 2007 Norman Abramson 2008 Gerard J. Foschini 2009 Robert McEliece 2010 John Cioffi 2011 Arogyaswami Paulraj 2012 Leonard Kleinrock 2013 Andrew Chraplyvy, Robert Tkach 2014 Dariush Divsalar 2015 Frank Kelly 2016 Roberto Padovani 2017 H. Vincent Poor 2018 Nambirajan Seshadri 2019 Teresa H. Meng 2020 Rajiv Laroia 2021 Nicholas W. McKeown 2022 Panganamala R. Kumar 2023 Erwin Hochmair, Ingeborg Hochmair 2024 Jennifer Rexford 2025 Richard D. Gitlin 2026 Scott Shenker
See also
Alexander Graham Bell honors and tributes Donald Davies – independently invented packet switching and modern data communication IEEE Medal of Honor IEEE awards World Communication Awards
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