The IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award is a Technical Field Award of the
IEEE
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 operat ...
established in 1986. This award has been presented annually since 1988 for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and
communications
Communication (from la, communicare, meaning "to share" or "to be in relation with") is usually defined as the transmission of information. The term may also refer to the message communicated through such transmissions or the field of inquir ...
.
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
is a Japanese multinational information technology and electronics corporation, headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. The company was known as the Nippon Electric Company, Limited, before rebranding in 1983 as NEC. It provides IT and network soluti ...
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (September 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019) was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.Contributors, ''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'' 42, #3 (May 1996), p. 1048. DO10.1 ...
* 1991: Stephen S. Lavenberg
* 1991: Martin Reiser
* 1992:
Vinton G. Cerf Vinton may refer to:
Places in the United States
*Vinton, California
* Fort Vinton, Florida
*Vinton, Iowa
* Vinton, Kansas
* Vinton, Louisiana
* Vinton, Missouri
* Vinton, Nebraska, a ghost town in Valley County, Nebraska
* Vinton Township, Nebrask ...
Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck (born 15 March 1940, Vienna) is an Austrian communications engineer.
Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree (with emphasis on telecommunications) from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. from th ...
Whitfield Diffie
Bailey Whitfield 'Whit' Diffie (born June 5, 1944), ForMemRS, is an American cryptographer and mathematician and one of the pioneers of public-key cryptography along with Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle. Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper ''New Dir ...
* 1999:
Martin Hellman
Martin Edward Hellman (born October 2, 1945) is an American cryptologist and mathematician, best known for his involvement with public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Hellman is a longtime contributor to ...
Ronald L. Rivest
Ronald Linn Rivest (; born May 6, 1947) is a cryptographer and an Institute Professor at MIT. He is a member of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Inte ...
* 2000:
Adi Shamir
Adi Shamir ( he, עדי שמיר; born July 6, 1952) is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the Rivest–Shamir–Adleman (RSA) algorithm (along with Ron Rivest and Len Adleman), a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identifi ...
* 2000:
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman (born December 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award, often called the Nobel prize of Computer science. He is also kno ...
Frank Kelly
Francis Kelly (28 December 1938 – 28 February 2016) was an Irish actor, singer and writer, whose career covered television, radio, theatre, music, screenwriting and film. He is best remembered for playing Father Jack Hackett in the Channel 4 ...
Don Coppersmith
Don Coppersmith (born 1950) is a cryptographer and mathematician. He was involved in the design of the Data Encryption Standard block cipher at IBM, particularly the design of the S-boxes, strengthening them against differential cryptanalysi ...
* 2009:
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 Silicon ...
* 2010:
Larry L. Peterson
Larry L. Peterson is an American computer scientist, known primarily as the Director of the PlanetLab Consortium, co-author (with Bruce Davie) of the networking textbook "Computer Networks: A Systems Approach," and for his research on the TCP Vega ...
George Varghese
George Varghese (born 1960) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining MSR's lab in Silicon Valley in 2013, he was a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California San Diego, where he led the Internet Algorithm ...
Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Koji, Kōji, Kohji or Kouji may refer to:
* Kōji (given name), a masculine Japanese given name
* Kōji (Heian period) (康治), Japanese era, 1142–1144
* Kōji (Muromachi period) (弘治), Japanese era, 1555–1558
*Koji orange, a Japanese citr ...