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IEEE Internet Award

The IEEE Internet Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in June of 1999.

Recipient selection is administered through the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.

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“Founders of the Internet” Featured on CBS News

Robert (Bob) E. Kahn, this year’s IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, Vint Cerf, the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient, and Steve Crocker, the 2002 IEEE Internet Award recipient recently sat down with Tony Dokoupil of CBS Mornings in New York to reflect on their original creation of the Internet and why there are no regrets. […]


Joint Awards

Mission Statement The IEEE Awards Board Joint Awards with National Societies Committee is responsible for overseeing the Joint Awards with National Societies (JANS) process, including but not limited to policies and procedures, approving the establishment of new joint awards, and approving JANS recipients on behalf of the IEEE Awards Board. The AB JANSC shall be [...]

Yakov Rekhter

“For contributions enabling the creation of a scalable, robust and policy-based Internet.”


Jennifer Rexford

2024 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal recipient and Panelist on Evolution & Future of Network Technologies Jennifer Rexford is the Provost, Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She served as the chair of the Computer Science department at Princeton from 2015 to 2022.  Before joining the Princeton [...]

2024 IEEE Medal recipients featured in Princeton article

2024 IEEE medal recipients featured in Princeton article: Medal of Honor recipient Bob Kahn, IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal recipient Andrea Goldsmith, and IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal recipient Jennifer Rexford.


Walter Willinger

“For contributions towards a foundational understanding of Internet traffic and topology.”


Steven H. Low

“For contributions to the theoretical foundation and practical implementation of Internet congestion control.”


Paul Nikolich

“For leadership in the development and advancement of global IEEE 802 network standards.”


2024 IEEE VIC Summit & Honors Ceremony Gala

2024 VIC Summit & Honors Ceremony Gala The 2024 IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony was held on Friday, 3 May 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Please check back soon for photos and videos from the event, sessions, interviews, and more... Thank you to all that joined the 2024 IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony [...]

Tsu-Jae King Liu

Panelist at the Welcome Celebration at Akamai Technologies’ Headquarters and 2024 IEEE Founders Medal Recipient A microelectronics visionary and innovator, Tsu-Jae King Liu’s FinFET contributions have drastically improved the speed and functionality of semiconductor circuits and have extended the life of Moore's Law since 2011. Today, FinFET forms the basis for all leading-edge semiconductor design [...]

Robert E. Kahn

2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient and Featured Panelist on the Fireside Chat with the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient. Widely known as one of the “fathers of the Internet,” Robert Kahn has made extensive and unequaled contributions to the lifestyle, commerce, and culture of modern society.  Kahn began working in computer networking in [...]

Tom Leighton

Panelist on Evolution & Future of Network Technologies and Past Recipient of the 2023 IEEE John von Neumann Medal Dr. Tom Leighton co-founded Akamai Technologies in 1998 and served as Akamai’s Chief Scientist until he became CEO in 2013. Under Dr. Leighton’s leadership, Akamai has evolved from its origins as a content delivery network (CDN) [...]

John A. Stankovic

“For contributions to the theory of real-time and resource-constrained, distributed systems and the practice of cyber-physical and health systems.”


John E. Bowers

“For contributions to photonic integrated circuit technologies.”


Kam Yin Lau

“For spearheading high-speed semiconductor lasers and RF-over-Fiber Systems, enabling today’s wireline and wireless broadband access.”


Tsu-Jae King Liu

“For leadership in the advancement and commercialization of nanometer semiconductor technologies and the promotion of microelectronics workforce development.”


Vincent W. S. Chan

“For pioneering technical contributions and leadership in the fields of space and terrestrial optical communications and networks.”


Jennifer Rexford

“For contributions to Internet wide-area routing and software-defined networking.”


2024 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient Robert E. Kahn

Robert E. Kahn

“For pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.”


2023 IEEE VIC Summit & Honors Ceremony Gala

2023 VIC Summit & Honors Ceremony Gala The 2023 IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit (IEEE VIC Summit) & Honors Ceremony was held on Friday, 5 May 2023 at the Hilton Atlanta. Please continue to check back for information about the 2024 IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony. The IEEE VIC Summit and Ceremony - [...]

Kim Roberts

“For leadership in the introduction and development of digital coherent signal processing for optical fiber transmission systems.”


Anja Feldmann

“For contributions to the field of networking and Internet technologies, specifically to traffic engineering, network measurements, and Internet protocols.”


Vinton G. Cerf

Fireside Chat with the 2023 IEEE Medal of Honor Recipient, Vinton G. Cerf Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Vinton (Vint) G. Cerf is the co-designer with Robert E. Kahn of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. Cerf’s tireless commitment to the Internet’s evolution, improvement, oversight, and evangelism throughout [...]

Vinton G. Cerf

“For co-creating the Internet architecture and providing sustained leadership in its phenomenal growth in becoming society’s critical infrastructure.”