The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal is an award honoring ''"exceptional contributions to communications and networking sciences and engineering"'' in the field of

telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that ...

. The medal is one of the highest honors awarded by the

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

(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 Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and T ...

. 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. Amos Edward Joel Jr. (March 12, 1918 – October 25, 2008) was an American electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems. Biography Joel was born in Philadelphia, ...

, 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 Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff. ...

*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 John O. Limb is an Australian engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of digital video communications and holder of a series of patents related to computer communications. Early life and education Born in Western Austra ...

, and Arun N. Netravali *1992 James L. Massey *1993 Donald C. Cox *1994

Hiroshi Inose was a Japanese electrical engineer, known as the inventor of the Time-Slot Interchange system (TSI), which is basic to modern digital telephone switches. Inose was highly involved within his career. He held positions such as director general, ...

*1995 Irwin M. Jacobs *1996

Tadahiro Sekimoto was a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (2004), chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies (IISE), and former chairman of the Board of Councilors of the Japan Federation of Economi ...

*1997 Vinton G. Cerf and

Robert E. Kahn Robert Elliot Kahn (born December 23, 1938) is an American electrical engineer who, along with Vint Cerf, first proposed the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), the fundamental communication protocols at the hear ...

*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 John McReynolds "Jack" Wozencraft (September 30, 1925 – August 31, 2009) was an electrical engineer and information theorist, professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. One of the pioneers of coding theory, Wozencraft ...

*2007 Norman Abramson *2008

Gerard J. Foschini Gerard Joseph Foschini (born February 28, 1940, in Jersey City, New Jersey), is an American telecommunications engineer who has worked for Bell Laboratories since 1961, but is now retired. His research has covered many kinds of data communication ...

*2009 Robert McEliece *2010

John Cioffi John Mathew Cioffi (born November 7, 1956) is an American electrical engineer, educator and inventor who has made contributions in telecommunication system theory, specifically in coding theory and information theory. Best known as "the father of ...

*2011

Arogyaswami Paulraj Arogyaswami J. Paulraj (born 14 April 1944) is an Indian-American electrical engineer, academic. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Elect. Engg. at Stanford University. Early life Paulraj was born in Pollachi near Coimbatore, Brit ...

*2012

Leonard Kleinrock Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and a long-tenured professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. In the early 1960s, Kleinrock pioneered the application of queueing theor ...

*2013 Andrew Chraplyvy, Robert Tkach *2014 Dariush Divsalar *2015 Frank Kelly *2016 Roberto Padovani *2017 H. Vincent Poor *2018

Nambirajan Seshadri Nambirajan Seshadri is a professor of practice at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego. Education Seshadri completed his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree ...

*2019 Teresa H. Meng *2020 Rajiv Laroia *2021

Nick McKeown Nicholas (Nick) William McKeown FREng, is the SVP/GM of the Network and Edge Group at Intel and a professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at Stanford University. He has also started technology companies in Silico ...

*2022 Panganamala R. Kumar

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