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The IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal was instituted by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1976, commemorating the centennial of the invention of the telephone. It honors outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications. It may be presented to an individual, or to a team of two or three. The award consists of a gold medal, bronze replica, certificate, and honorarium.

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Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a Scottish scientist, inventor and innovator. Throughout his early life, Alexander Graham Bell was a British subject but in 1915, he characterized his status as: "I am not one of those hyphenated Americans who claim
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Type Professional Organization
Founded January 1, 1963
Origins Merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers
Key people Leah H.
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A centennial or a centenary is a 100-year anniversary.

Governments often declare a Centennial Day in honor of such anniversaries. Some monarchies, including the Low Countries, allow organisations that have celebrated their centennial anniversary to adopt (or petition
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The telephone is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly speech). Most telephones operate through transmission of electric signals over a complex telephone network which allows almost any phone user to communicate with almost anyone.
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Telecommunication is the transmission of signals over a distance for the purpose of communication. In modern times, this process typically involves the sending of electromagnetic waves by electronic transmitters, but in earlier times telecommunication may have involved the use of
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Amos Edward Joel, Jr. (born March 12 1918 in Philadelphia)[1] is an American electrical engineer, known for several contributions and over seventy patents related to telecommunications switching systems.

He earned his B.Sc. (1940) and M.Sc.
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Eberhardt Rechtin (1926-2006) was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture. He received both his BS (1946) and PhD (1950) degrees from Caltech.
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M. Robert Aaron (August 21, 1922 - June 16, 2007) was a noted American electrical engineer specializing in telecommunications.

Aaron was born in Philadelphia, served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, received his bachelor's (1949) and master's degree
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Anton Christian Jacobaeus (born in 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden) is an electrical engineer. He developed the modern crossbar switch used for telephone switching.

Jacobaeus graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in 1934 with a master's degree in electrical
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Richard Ralston Hough (1917 in Trenton, New Jersey – July 9 1992 in Concord, New Hampshire) was a Bell Labs engineer and AT&T executive.

Hough received his B.S. in 1939 and a graduate degree in 1940 in electrical engineering from Princeton University.
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David Slepian (born June 30, 1923) is an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1949, for a dissertation in physics. Later he worked at the Mathematics Research Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he pioneered work in algebraic coding theory.
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Harold A. Rosen (born 1926 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an electrical engineer, known for designing and directing the construction of the first geosynchronous communications satellite, Syncom, for Hughes Aircraft Company.
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Stephen O. Rice (November 29, 1907 in Shedds, Oregon – November 18, 1986 in La Jolla, California) was a pioneer in the field of communication theory. He received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and did graduate work at Caltech
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Andrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. (born March 9, 1935) is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman.

Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee.
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Charles Kuen Kao, Ph.D (高錕; pinyin: Gāo Kūn; born November 4, 1933) is a pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications.

He was born in Shanghai in 1933, graduated in electrical engineering from the University of London in 1957, and then
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Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He is the co-inventor of the Widrow-Hoff Least Mean Squares (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff.
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Robert Melancton Metcalfe (born April 7[1], 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American technology pioneer who co-invented Ethernet with David Boggs, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfe's Law. As of January 2006, he is a general partner of Polaris Venture Partners.
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Gerald R. Ash (born in 1942 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an electrical engineer at AT&T Labs. His research has focused on routing problems; he is known for the development of Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing (DNHR).

Ash received his B.S.
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For an economist with same name, see Paul A. Baran


Paul Baran (born April 29, 1926) was one of the two inventors of packet-switched networks, along with Donald Davies and Leonard Kleinrock.
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C. Chapin Cutler (1914, Springfield, Massachusetts – November 30 2002, Waterford, Maine) was an American electrical engineer at Bell Labs. His notable achievements include the invention of the corrugated waveguide and differential pulse-code modulation (PCM).
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Arun N. Netravali (b. May 26, 1946 in Bombay) is an Indian-American engineer and businessman who is a pioneer of digital technology including HDTV. He conducted seminal research in digital compression, signal processing and other fields, including important collaborative work with
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James Lee Massey (born in 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA
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Donald C. Cox (born in 1937) is an electrical engineer researching wireless communication, currently a professor at Stanford University, where he heads the Wireless Communications Research Group.
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Irwin Mark Jacobs, Sc.D. (born October 18, 1933 in New Bedford, Massachusetts), is an electrical engineer and the chairman of QUALCOMM.

Dr. Jacobs earned his bachelors of science degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University in 1956, and his S.M. and Sc.D.
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Tadahiro Sekimoto (関本忠弘　Sekimoto Tadahiro; November 14, 1926– ) is a Japanese electronics engineer, a recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor (2004), chairman of Japan's Institute for International Socio-Economic Studies (IISE), and
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Vinton Gray Cerf

Born May 23 1943 (1943--) (age 64)
New Haven, Connecticut
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Robert E. Kahn
Born November 23 1938 (1938--) (age 70)

Nationality USA
Field Computer Science
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Richard Blahut is the chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign best known for his work in information theory (e.g.
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David G. Messerschmitt (born in 1945 in Denver, Colorado) is an engineer and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He retired from UC Berkeley in 2005.
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