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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 of these Fellows at the
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 digital inclusion. Most amazingly, Talon
Three Lessons We’ve Learned About Digital Inclusion From COVID-19
May 26, 2020
By Samantha Schartman-Cycyk Did you know that 43% of the world’s households cannot take advantage of the educational and economic benefits of Internet access? Geographic and demographic gaps in digital
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.
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 “social distancing” and to help
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.
Five Women Breaking Barriers in Tech
May 4, 2020
By Samantha Schartman-Cycyk When we announced Dr. Andrea Goldsmith as the 2020 Marconi Fellow, she made history. How? Goldsmith is the first woman in Marconi Society history to be honored with the
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 problem has aligned with our
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