IEEE Internet Award is a Technical Field Award established by the

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operati ...

in June 1999. 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 The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a ''internetworking, network of networks'' that consists ...

technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. Awardees receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium. The following people have received the award: * 2000 – Paul Baran,

Donald W. Davies Donald Watts Davies, (7 June 1924 – 28 May 2000) was a Welsh computer scientist who was employed at the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL). In 1965 he conceived of packet switching, which is today the dominant basis for data communica ...

, Leonard Kleinrock and Larry Roberts (for

packet switching In telecommunications, packet switching is a method of grouping Data (computing), data into ''network packet, packets'' that are transmitted over a digital Telecommunications network, network. Packets are made of a header (computing), header and ...

) * 2001 – Louis Pouzin (for

datagram A datagram is a basic transfer unit associated with a packet-switched network. Datagrams are typically structured in header and payload sections. Datagrams provide a connectionless communication service across a packet-switched network. The del ...

s) * 2002 – Steve Crocker (for approach enabling evolution of

Internet Protocol The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet. ...

s) * 2003 – Paul Mockapetris (the Mockapetris citation specifically cites Jon Postel who had died and therefore could not receive the award for their

DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) is a hierarchical and distributed naming system for computers, services, and other resources in the Internet or other Internet Protocol (IP) networks. It associates various information with domain names assigned to ...

work) (for the domain name system) * 2004 – Raymond Tomlinson and David H. Crocker (for networked email) * 2005 – Sally Floyd (for contributions in congestion control, traffic modeling, and active queue management) * 2006 – Scott Shenker (for contributions to the study of resource sharing) * 2007 – not awarded * 2008 – Mike Brecia, Ginny Travers, and Bob Hinden (for early routers) * 2009 – Lixia Zhang (for Internet architecture and modeling) * 2010 – Stephen Deering (for IP multicasting and

IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. I ...

) * 2011 – Jun Murai (for leadership in the development of the global Internet, especially in Asia) * 2012 –

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(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) * 2016 – Henning Schulzrinne * 2017 – Deborah Estrin * 2018 –

Ramesh Govindan Ramesh Govindan is an Indian-American professor of computer science. He is the Northrop Grumman Chair in Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Early life Govindan obta ...

* 2019 – Jennifer Rexford * 2020 –

Stephen Casner Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; h ...

and

Eve Schooler Eve Meryl Schooler is an American computer scientist who works for Intel as a principal engineer, and as director of emerging internet of things networks in the IoT Group. She is known for her work on internet standards for distributed computing ...

(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)

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* Internet Award Computer science awards Awards established in 1999 {{sci-award-stub

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