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Marconi Prize

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The Marconi Prize
Awarded forExceptional contributions to the field of information and communication technology for the benefit of mankind.
Presented byMarconi Society
First award1975
Websitehttps://www.marconisociety.org/

The Marconi Prize is an annual award that the Marconi Society gives for outstanding achievements and advancements in communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, the Internet, etc.). Prizewinners receive in-person recognition from distinguished colleagues and other guests as well as a work of sculpture at the Marconi Society's annual symposium and gala.

Criteria

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The Marconi Prize is awarded based on the candidate’s contributions in the following areas:[1]

  • The significance of the impact of the nominee’s work on widely-used technology.
  • The scientific importance of the nominee’s work in setting the stage for, influencing, and advancing the field beyond the nominee’s own achievements.
  • The nominee’s contributions to innovation and entrepreneurship by introducing completely new ideas, methods, or technologies. These may include forming, leading, or advising organizations, mentoring students on moving ideas from research to implementation, or fostering new industries/enabling scale implementation.
  • The social and humanitarian impact of the nominee’s contributions to the design, development, and/or deployment of new communication technologies or communications public policies that promote social development and/or inclusiveness.

Marconi Fellowships

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Marconi Prize recipients are also named Marconi Fellows.[2] The foundation and the prize are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio communications. Fellows are expected to pursue further creative work to advance the understanding and development of communications technologies for the benefit of mankind.

List of Marconi Prize winners

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First given in 1975, the prize has gone to such notable figures as Lawrence E. Page and Sergey Brin for inventing search engine Google, Tim Berners-Lee for his leadership and innovations in establishing the World Wide Web, Nobel Laureate Charles K. Kao for developing fiber-optic communications, and Martin Hellman and Whitfield Diffie for creating the Diffie–Hellman key exchange.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Nominate a Fellow".
  2. ^ "Marconi Fellows". marconisociety.org.
  3. ^ "Indo American Professor A J Paulraj wins Marconi Prize 2014". IANS. Biharprabha News. 22 January 2014.
  4. ^ "Stanford engineer Bradford Parkinson, the 'Father of GPS,' wins prestigious Marconi Prize". stanford.edu. 16 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Andrea Goldsmith becomes first woman to win the Marconi Prize, shattering a glass ceiling in the field of telecommunications". stanford.edu. 30 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Democratizing internet access: 2022 Marconi prize awarded to wireless innovator Siavash Alamouti". marconisociety.org. 9 February 2022.
  7. ^ "Creating a Safer, More Resilient Society: 2023 Marconi Prize Awarded to Hari Balakrishnan." Marconi Society. February 21, 2023.
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