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Marconi Fellow Ron Rivest Breaks Ground in COVID-19 Contact Tracing

June 11, 2020

Marconi Fellows are recognized for their impact on society and humankind. As the COVID-19 pandemic radically alters everyone’s lives, we are proud to see some

Vint Cerf and Broadband Advocate Talon Lane Discuss Digital Inclusion

June 1, 2020

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Talon Lane, a proud member of the Cherokee Nation and an outspoken advocate for

The Imperative to Close the Digital Divide

May 8, 2020

Robert Tkach’s engineering work vastly increased the transmission speed and capacity of optical fiber systems which underlie our global communications networks. Tkach has been recognized with the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and the John Tyndall Award.

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Industry Collaboration To Make Internet Services Work for All Consumers

May 6, 2020

We Marconi Fellows have developed and fostered important pieces of today’s Internet that have been increasingly called upon to help people everywhere continue communicating, while

Enormous Value From the Network

May 4, 2020

Tom Leighton is a pioneer in creating the content delivery network services industry which now delivers trillions of content requests over the Internet each day. He is the co-founder and CEO of Akamai Networks and the recipient of the Marconi Prize, the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award and is a member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Accurate Measurement: The Key to Assessing and Predicting

April 29, 2020

Bradford W. Parkinson led the technical design and development of the Global Positioning System, ensuring that the military also consider civilian uses which created entirely new markets. Parkinson has received the Marconi Prize, the National Academy of Engineering Charles Stark Draper Prize and the IEEE Medal of Honor.

From Education to Biowarfare – The COVID-19 Pandemic Will Change the World Forever

April 27, 2020

This problem arises at the precise moment that we have the communications technology to address it. This is not the first time that an existential

It Will Come Down to Critical Thinking and Preparation

April 24, 2020

2020 will go down in history as a time when “sufficient” and “necessary” became confused. The extreme response in China ultimately had the desired effect