Marconi Society's 2015 Paul Baran Young Scholars Nomination
The Marconi Society was established in 1974 to honor Guglielmo Marconi, the Nobel laureate who invented radio (wireless telegraphy) Along with the annual Marconi Prize to a living scientist or scientists whose contributions in the field of information and communications science have benefited mankind, the Society recognizes young scientists and engineers with the potential to make game-changing contributions in the field of communications and the Internet. We are now seeking nominations for the 2015 Paul Baran Young Scholar Awards, which will be presented in London on Oct. 20th at the Royal Society. Young Scholars receive a $4000 cash prize plus $1000 in expenses to attend the event. This is an opportunity for them to gain well-deserved recognition, and meet and network with some of the industry's best-known scientists and engineers.
Mar 20, 2015

Marconi Fellows include an elite list of individuals whose work set the stage for modern telecommunications and the Internet, from Nobel Prize-winning physicists Arthur Schawlow and Sir Charles Kao to Internet pioneers Robert Kahn, Paul Baran, Vint Cerf and Leonard Kleinrock, microprocessor inventor Federico Faggin, World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee, science visionary Arthur C. Clarke, and Ethernet inventor Robert M. Metcalfe. More recent winners have included Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, DSL modem inventor John Cioffi, encryption pioneers Martin Hellman, Whitfield Diffie and Ron Rivest, MIMO inventor A. J. Paulraj, turbo-code inventor Claude Berrou, fiber optic pioneers Robert Tkach, David Payne and Andrew Chraplyvy and wireless luminaries Andrew Viterbi, Irwin Jacobs Martin Cooper and Henry Samueli, among others. Young Scholars are identified as having the potential to someday become Marconi Prize winners, too.

If you know a student who has demonstrated outstanding research capability, entrepreneurial spirit and technical vision, we invite you to nominate them for this year's award. Only candidates born in 1987 or later are eligible for the award in 2015. Complete nomination instructions and the online application are accessible through this link:

http://marconisociety.org/youngscholars/selectioncriteria.html

The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2015 . If you have questions, please direct them to: Ms. Hatti Hamlin Executive Director The Marconi Society 925.872.4328

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