IEEE Internet Award is a
Technical Field Award established by the
IEEE in June 1999.[1] The award is sponsored by
Nokia Corporation. It may be presented annually to an individual or up to three recipients, for exceptional contributions to the advancement of
Internet technology for
network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. Awardees receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
2003 –
Paul Mockapetris (for the domain name system; the Mockapetris citation specifically cites
Jon Postel who had died and therefore could not receive the award for their
DNS work)
2011 –
Jun Murai (for leadership in the development of the global Internet, especially in Asia)
2012 –
Mark Handley (for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility, and/or end-use applications)
2013 –
David L. Mills (for significant leadership and sustained contributions in the research, development, standardization, and deployment of quality time synchronization capabilities for the Internet)
2014 –
Jon Crowcroft (for contributions to research in and teaching of Internet protocols, including multicast, transport, quality of service, security, mobility, and opportunistic networking)
2015 –
KC Claffy and
Vern Paxson (for seminal contributions to the field of Internet measurement, including security and network data analysis, and for distinguished leadership in and service to the Internet community by providing open-access data and tools)
2020 –
Stephen Casner and
Eve Schooler (for contributions to Internet multimedia standards and protocols)
2023 –
Ian Foster and
Carl Kesselman (for contributions to the design, deployment, and application of practical Internet-scale global computing platforms)
2024 – Walter Willinger
Notes
^Packet switching was invented independently by Paul Baran and Donald Davies in the early and mid 1960s, respectively. Neither Leonard Kleinrock nor Larry Roberts were involved until the implementation of the
ARPANET in the late 1960s.[3][4][5][6]
^Datagrams were conceived by Paul Baran and Donald Davies. Louis Pouzin directed the first implementation of the pure datagram model in the
CYCLADES wide-area network (the
NPL network was a local-area network and the ARPANET used a
virtual circuit service).[7][8][9][10]
^Pelkey, James L.; Russell, Andrew L.; Robbins, Loring G. (2022). Circuits, Packets, and Protocols: Entrepreneurs and Computer Communications, 1968-1988. Morgan & Claypool. p.
4.
ISBN978-1-4503-9729-2. Paul Baran, an engineer celebrated as the co-inventor (along with Donald Davies) of the packet switching technology that is the foundation of digital networks
^Harris, Trevor, University of Wales (2009). Pasadeos, Yorgo (ed.).
"Who is the Father of the Internet? The Case for Donald Davies". Variety in Mass Communication Research. ATINER: 123–134.
ISBN978-960-6672-46-0. Archived from
the original on May 2, 2022. Leonard Kleinrock and Lawrence (Larry) Roberts, neither of whom were directly involved in the invention of packet switching ... Dr Willis H. Ware, Senior Computer Scientist and Research at the RAND Corporation, notes that Davies (and others) were troubled by what they regarded as in appropriate claims on the invention of packet switching{{
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^John S, Quarterman; Josiah C, Hoskins (1986).
"Notable computer networks". Communications of the ACM. 29 (10): 932–971.
doi:10.1145/6617.6618.
S2CID25341056. The first packet-switching network was implemented at the National Physical Laboratories in the United Kingdom. It was quickly followed by the ARPANET in 1969.