Marconi prize

Awards (1987) (1995) NAE (1978) IEEE Fellow (1972) Robert Wendell Lucky (January 9, 1936 – March 10, 2022) was an Early life [ ] Robert Lucky was born in Career [ ] Lucky joined Bell Labs in 1961, where his initial assignment was in the data theory department under William R Bennett. In 1964 he made his best known invention, the Lucky left Bell Labs in 1992 and joined Bellcore, the research laboratory for the divested Bell telephone companies, where he was corporate vice president, responsible for management of research. A few years later Bellcore was sold to Adaptive equalizer [ ] In the early 1960s the highest speed for Lucky invented a way to adaptively undo the smearing effects by automatic adjustment of a variable filter, using a tapped The first adaptive equalizer, in 1964, used 13 adjustable gains, each set by 8 Shortly thereafter, the relays were replaced with Advisory positions [ ] Throughout his career, Lucky was heavily involved in advisory and participatory roles in engineering societies, universities, and government. In the IEEE he was editor of the Honors and awards [ ] Among his honors, Lucky was awarded four honorary doctorate degrees, the 1987 [ citation needed] [ when?] He was an elected member of the Writings [ ] Lucky was the author (with J Salz and EJ Weldon) of a textbook, Principles of Data Communications (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965). He wrote a popularized account of information theory in Silicon Dreams (St Martins Press, New York, 1989). A compila...

February 9, 2022—The Marconi Society is proud to award the 2022 Marconi Prize, the top honor in communications technology, to Siavash Alamouti in recognition of his impact on the accessibility of wireless devices. The serial innovator, whose famous Alamouti Code can be found in billions of devices around the world, has devoted his career to developing wireless technology that improves people’s lives. “Siavash has brought connectivity to billions of people by making wireless devices more efficient and affordable without reducing reception quality,” says Vint Cerf, Chair of the Marconi Society and 1998 Marconi Fellow. “Throughout his career, he has been a vital advocate for technology as a democratizing force in the world.” Alamouti designed his eponymous Code in 1996, refining past efforts to improve mobile signal reception without significantly increasing device costs. His elegant solution, mathematically proven to optimize reception, adds transmitters to cell base stations or access points rather than adding them to each device. This code is now part of the foundation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, which is an essential component of contemporary wireless standards. Throughout his career at major technology companies, including AT&T, Intel, and Vodafone, Alamouti remained passionate about open wireless standards and technology that prioritizes the end user’s needs and interests. His leadership on open wireless standards can be seen in current standard...

I am delighted to be honored with the Marconi Prize, whose previous recipients are a “Who’s Who” of communications technology innovators. As a researcher inspired by how people use network applications and motivated to build networked systems for a safer and more resilient world, I am privileged to be part of the Marconi Society and its mission to advance digital equity.

2021 Distinguished CS Alumnus Hari Balakrishnan (Ph.D. 1998, advisor: Randy Katz) has won the 2023 Marconi Prize “for his fundamental contributions to mobile sensing, networking, and distributed systems.” The Marconi Prize, which is the highest honor of the Marconi Society, is given each year to innovators who have made significant contributions to increasing inclusivity through the advancement of information and communications technology. Balakrishnan is the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He is also the Founder, CTO, and Chairman of Cambridge Mobile Telematics (CMT). His graduate work at Berkeley won the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1998. He was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017; he received the Infosys Prize in 2020 and the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication in 2021 for his important contributions to networks, mobile systems, and telematics. He is also a Fellow of both the ACM and IEEE.

— Who Invented Radio? — With his newly created Tesla coils, the inventor soon discovered that he could transmit and receive powerful radio signals when they were tuned to resonate at the same frequency. When a coil is tuned to a signal of a particular frequency, it literally magnifies the incoming electrical energy through resonant action. By early 1895, Tesla was ready to transmit a signal 50 miles to West Point, New York... But in that same year, disaster struck. A building fire consumed Tesla's lab, destroying his work. The timing could not have been worse. In England, a young Italian experimenter named Guglielmo Marconi had been hard at work building a device for wireless telegraphy. The young Marconi had taken out the first wireless telegraphy patent in England in 1896. His device had only a two-circuit system, which some said could not transmit "across a pond." Later Marconi set up long-distance demonstrations, using a Tesla oscillator to transmit the signals across the English Channel. Tesla filed his own basic radio patent applications in 1897. They were granted in 1900. Marconi's first patent application in America, filed on November 10, 1900, was turned down. Marconi's revised applications over the next three years were repeatedly rejected because of the priority of Tesla and other inventors. The Patent Office made the following comment in 1903: Many of the claims are not patentable over Tesla patent numbers 645,576 and 649,621, of record, the amendment to overco...

Andrea Goldsmith, a global leader in the development of wireless systems, has been awarded the Marconi Prize, the highest honor in telecommunications research. She is the first woman ever to win the prize, now in its 45th year. Goldsmith was Goldsmith's work has fundamentally shaped today's mobile technology and has laid ground rules for cellular and Wi-Fi network performance. Fluctuations in network capacity can arise from a variety of factors such as movement and shifts in demand. For example, walking while using a mobile phone creates a moving signal. Ebbs and flows of internet use create bottlenecks throughout the day. When data flows at a constant rate during these fluctuations, rather than reflecting the network's need, it creates problems including dropped calls and frozen screens. To address these problems, Goldsmith developed techniques that allow network designers to modulate speeds and match qualities across dynamic networks. This adaptive modulation, implemented through Goldsmith's start-up ventures and the detailed descriptions she's published, have enabled engineers to leverage her findings across nearly every major cellular and Wi-Fi network in the world. The Marconi Prize comes in recognition for this work as she moves from Stanford University, where she is the Stephen Harris Professor in Engineering, to Princeton, where she will continue to lead research into information theory and communications systems, a core area of the Department of Electrical Enginee...

The Marconi Fellows are some of the most respected engineers in the world. Many work actively to bring the opportunities of connectivity to everyone. They have changed our lives by creating an Internet that is available, accessible, secure, and useful and putting its power into the hands of billions of people.

Awards (1987) (1995) NAE (1978) IEEE Fellow (1972) Robert Wendell Lucky (January 9, 1936 – March 10, 2022) was an Early life [ ] Robert Lucky was born in Career [ ] Lucky joined Bell Labs in 1961, where his initial assignment was in the data theory department under William R Bennett. In 1964 he made his best known invention, the Lucky left Bell Labs in 1992 and joined Bellcore, the research laboratory for the divested Bell telephone companies, where he was corporate vice president, responsible for management of research. A few years later Bellcore was sold to Adaptive equalizer [ ] In the early 1960s the highest speed for Lucky invented a way to adaptively undo the smearing effects by automatic adjustment of a variable filter, using a tapped The first adaptive equalizer, in 1964, used 13 adjustable gains, each set by 8 Shortly thereafter, the relays were replaced with Advisory positions [ ] Throughout his career, Lucky was heavily involved in advisory and participatory roles in engineering societies, universities, and government. In the IEEE he was editor of the Honors and awards [ ] Among his honors, Lucky was awarded four honorary doctorate degrees, the 1987 [ citation needed] [ when?] He was an elected member of the Writings [ ] Lucky was the author (with J Salz and EJ Weldon) of a textbook, Principles of Data Communications (McGraw-Hill, New York, 1965). He wrote a popularized account of information theory in Silicon Dreams (St Martins Press, New York, 1989). A compila...

I am delighted to be honored with the Marconi Prize, whose previous recipients are a “Who’s Who” of communications technology innovators. As a researcher inspired by how people use network applications and motivated to build networked systems for a safer and more resilient world, I am privileged to be part of the Marconi Society and its mission to advance digital equity.

February 9, 2022—The Marconi Society is proud to award the 2022 Marconi Prize, the top honor in communications technology, to Siavash Alamouti in recognition of his impact on the accessibility of wireless devices. The serial innovator, whose famous Alamouti Code can be found in billions of devices around the world, has devoted his career to developing wireless technology that improves people’s lives. “Siavash has brought connectivity to billions of people by making wireless devices more efficient and affordable without reducing reception quality,” says Vint Cerf, Chair of the Marconi Society and 1998 Marconi Fellow. “Throughout his career, he has been a vital advocate for technology as a democratizing force in the world.” Alamouti designed his eponymous Code in 1996, refining past efforts to improve mobile signal reception without significantly increasing device costs. His elegant solution, mathematically proven to optimize reception, adds transmitters to cell base stations or access points rather than adding them to each device. This code is now part of the foundation of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology, which is an essential component of contemporary wireless standards. Throughout his career at major technology companies, including AT&T, Intel, and Vodafone, Alamouti remained passionate about open wireless standards and technology that prioritizes the end user’s needs and interests. His leadership on open wireless standards can be seen in current standard...