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October 8th, 2009 The five Young Scholar award winners are: Sébastien Soudan, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Marco Papaleo, University of Bologna; Eric Plum, Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton; Eitan Yaakobi, University of California at San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering; and Felix Gutierrez, Jr., University of Texas, Austin.
Rafael Pinaud Laufer - Novel Routing Paradigms for Wireless Multihop Networks ![]() This year's Marconi prize goes to Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach, a pair of Bell Labs scientists whose work on fiber optic nonlinearities led to vastly increased broadband capacity in the world’s communications networks.Gabriele Falciasecca, Giovanni E. Corazza - Introduction
David Payne - Problems Solved and Unsolved Problems in Photonics Herwig Kogelnik - Perspectives on Optical Communications James Massey - Marconi, Shannon and Conventional Wisdom Claude Berrou - Coding and Brain James Flanagan - Parametric Representation of Speech Signals John Cioffi - What would Marconi have thought about DSL? Yash Pal - Keeping alive the spirit for which Gioia Marconi Braga honoured me 29 years ago Romano Volta - A world hearing itself: An Italian midsummer night’s dream Eric Ash - Saving the Planet: ICT and Coal Federico Faggin - Birth and Evolution of the Microprocessor Andrew Viterbi - Foundations of the Digital Wireless World Andrew Chraplyvy - Optical communications - The Past Robert Tkach - Optical communications - The Future The future of Information and Communication Technology Andrew Chraplyvy, David Forney, Bob Lucky, Robert Tkach, Andrew Viterbi |