IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR

for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the IEEE fields of interest, sponsored by  IEEE Foundation  to:

ANDREW J. VITERBI  (LF’ IEEE)
President, Viterbi Group, LLC
San Diego, CA, USA

“For seminal contributions to communications technology and theory."

IEEE ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL

for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs  to:

JOHN M. CIOFFI  (F’ IEEE)
Hitachi America Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

“For pioneering discrete multitone modem technology as the foundation of the global DSL industry.”

IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL

for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology, sponsored by  QUALCOMM, Inc.  to co-recipients:

WHITFIELD DIFFIE  (A’IEEE)
Vice President, Fellow and Chief Security Officer
Sun Microsystems
Menlo Park, CA, USA

and

MARTIN HELLMAN  (F’IEEE)
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

and

RALPH MERKLE  (M’IEEE)
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Cupertino, CA, USA

“For the invention of public key cryptography and its application to secure communications.”