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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
How a Hill in Italy Connects Us All Today
April 27, 2020
Each time you pick up your cell phone, join a virtual meeting or class, listen to a ball game or stream a show, you have Guglielmo Marconi to thank. As
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 of reducing new cases of
Connected Medicine In the Age of Pandemics
April 22, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic will be a major social and economic disruption, but certainly not on the scale of World War I or II. While the broader impact of current pandemic
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