The annual SIGCOMM Award for Lifetime Contribution recognizes lifetime contribution to the field of
communication networks.
The award is presented in the annual
SIGCOMM
SIGCOMM is the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Data Communications, which specializes in the field of communication and computer networks. It is also the name of an annual 'flagship' conference, organized by SIGCOMM ...
Technical Conference.
SIGCOMM is the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional membe ...
(ACM)'s professional forum for the discussion of topics in the field of communications and computer networks, including technical design and engineering, regulation and operations, and the social implications of computer networking. The SIG's members are particularly interested in the systems engineering and architectural questions of communication.
The awardees have been:
* 2024
K. K. Ramakrishnan
* 2023
Dina Katabi
Dina Katabi () is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of the MIT Wireless Center. She was designated as one of the world’s most influential women engineers by ''Forbes'' m ...
* 2022
Deborah Estrin and
Henning Schulzrinne
* 2021
Hari Balakrishnan
* 2020 Amin Vahdat and
Lixia Zhang
* 2019
Mark Handley
Mark Handley is a playwright and screenwriter.
Personal life
In 1977, he and his wife moved to the Pacific Northwest where they lived in isolation in a log cabin that they built themselves.
Career
He is best known for his play ''Idioglos ...
* 2018
Jennifer Rexford
* 2017
Raj Jain
* 2016
Jim Kurose
* 2015
Albert Greenberg
* 2014
George Varghese
* 2013
Larry Peterson
* 2012
Nick McKeown
* 2011
Vern Paxson
* 2010
Radia Perlman
Radia Joy Perlman (; born December 18, 1951) is an American computer programmer and network engineer. She is a major figure in assembling the networks and technology to enable what we now know as the Internet. She is most famous for her inventi ...
* 2009
Jon Crowcroft
* 2008
Don Towsley
* 2007
Sally Floyd
* 2006
Domenico Ferrari
* 2005
Paul Mockapetris
Paul V. Mockapetris (born 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, US) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer, who invented the Internet Domain Name System (DNS).
Education
Mockapetris graduated from the Boston Latin School in 1966, receiv ...
* 2004
Simon S. Lam
* 2003
David Cheriton
David Ross Cheriton (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian computer scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and leads the Distributed Systems Group.
...
* 2002
Scott Shenker
Scott J. Shenker (born January 24, 1956) is an American computer scientist, and professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the leader of the Extensible Internet Group at the International Computer Science ...
* 2001
Van Jacobson
* 2000
Andre Danthine
* 1999
Peter Kirstein
* 1998
Larry Roberts
* 1997
Jon Postel
Jonathan Bruce Postel (; August 6, 1943 – October 16, 1998) was an American computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to Internet Standard, standards. He is known p ...
* 1997
Louis Pouzin
Louis Pouzin (born 20 April 1931) is a French computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He directed the development of the CYCLADES computer network in France the early 1970s, which implemented a novel design for packet communication. He was the ...
* 1996
Vint Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf (; born June 23, 1943) is an American Internet pioneer and is recognized as one of "the fathers of the Internet", sharing this title with TCP/IP co-developer Robert Kahn.
He has received honorary degrees and awards that inclu ...
* 1995
David J. Farber
* 1994
Paul Green
* 1993
Robert Kahn
* 1992
Sandy Fraser
* 1991
Hubert Zimmermann
* 1990
David D. Clark
* 1990
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock (born June 13, 1934) is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Kleinrock made several ...
* 1989
Paul Baran
Paul Baran (born Pesach Baran ; April 29, 1926 – March 26, 2011) was a Polish-American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks. He was one of the two independent inventors of packet switching, which is today the do ...
See also
*
IEEE Internet Award
*
Internet Hall of Fame
The Internet Hall of Fame is an honorary lifetime achievement award administered by the Internet Society (ISOC) in recognition of individuals who have made significant contributions to the development and advancement of the Internet.
Overview ...
*
List of computer science awards
*
List of Internet pioneers
Instead of having a single inventor, the Internet was developed by many people over many years. The following people are Internet pioneers who have been recognized for their contribution to its early and ongoing development. These contributions ...
*
List of pioneers in computer science
References
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External links
SIGCOMM Award Recipients
Computer science awards
Awards of the Association for Computing Machinery