IEEE Internet Award
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IEEE Internet Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in June 1999. The award is sponsored by Nokia Corporation. It may currently be presented annually to an individual or up to three recipients, for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 technology for network architecture
Network architecture
Network architecture is the design of a communications network. It is a framework for the specification of a network's physical components and their functional organization and configuration, its operational principles and procedures, as well as data formats used in its operation.In...

, mobility and/or end-use applications. Awardees receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

The recipients of the award have been the following people:
  • 2000 - Paul Baran
    Paul Baran
    Paul Baran was a Polish American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks.He invented packet switching techniques, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of the Internet and other modern digital...

    , Donald W. Davies, Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking...

     and Larry Roberts (for packet switching)
  • 2001 - Louis Pouzin
    Louis Pouzin
    Louis Pouzin invented the datagram and designed an early packet communications network, CYCLADES...

     (for datagrams)
  • 2002 - Steve Crocker
    Steve Crocker
    Stephen D. Crocker is the inventor of the Request for Comments series, authoring the very first RFC and many more. He received his bachelor's degree and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Crocker is chair of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers,...

     (for approach enabling evolution of Internet protocols)
  • 2003 - Paul Mockapetris
    Paul Mockapetris
    Dr. Paul V. Mockapetris is the inventor of the Domain Name System.In 1983, he proposed a Domain Name System architecture in RFCs 882 and 883 while at the Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California....

     (the Mockapetris citation specifically cites Jon Postel
    Jon Postel
    Jonathan Bruce Postel was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards...

     who had died and therefore could not receive the award for their DNS
    Domain name system
    The Domain Name System is a hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. It associates various information with domain names assigned to each of the participating entities...

     work) (for the domain name system)
  • 2004 - Raymond Tomlinson and David H. Crocker (for networked email)
  • 2005 - Sally Floyd
    Sally Floyd (computer scientist)
    Sally Floyd was a computer scientist at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. She retired in 2009. She is best known for her work on Internet congestion control...

     (for contributions in congestion control, traffic modelling, and active queue management)
  • 2006 - Scott Shenker
    Scott Shenker
    Scott Shenker is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley. He is also the head of the Networking Group and the Vice President of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from Brown University in 1978, and his PhD in Physics from...

     (for contributions to the study of resource sharing)
  • 2007 - not awarded
  • 2008 - Mike Brecia, Ginny Travers, and Bob Hinden (for early routers)
  • 2009 - Lixia Zhang (for Internet architecture and modeling)
  • 2010 - Stephen Deering
    Steve Deering
    Stephen Deering is a former Technical Leader at Cisco Systems, where he worked on the development and standardization of architectural enhancements to the Internet Protocol...

     (for IP multicast
    IP Multicast
    IP multicast is a method of sending Internet Protocol datagrams to a group of interested receivers in a single transmission. It is often employed for streaming media applications on the Internet and private networks. The method is the IP-specific version of the general concept of multicast...

    ing and IPv6
    IPv6
    Internet Protocol version 6 is a version of the Internet Protocol . It is designed to succeed the Internet Protocol version 4...

    )
  • 2011 - Jun Murai
    Jun Murai
    is a Japanese computer scientist, known as "the father of Japan's Internet". A professor at Keio University, Murai is the founder of JUNET and president of WIDE Project. Murai graduated from Keio University in 1979 and received a Ph.D...

     (for leadership in the development of the global Internet, especially in Asia)
  • 2012 - Mark Handley
    Mark Handley (computer scientist)
    Mark Handley is Professor of Networked Systems in the Department of Computer Science of University College London since 2003, where he leads the Networks Research Group...

    (for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility, and/or end-use applications)
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