Marconi Prize nominations open for 2019

Nominations are now open for the prestigious international US$100,000 Marconi Prize for 2019. Considered the ultimate honour in the field of communications and information sciences, the prize is awarded annually by The Marconi Society to a living scientist or scientists who have made a significant contribution to those fields.

The award was initiated in 1974 by Gioia Marconi Braga to honour her father, Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of radio.

The recipient of the 2018 Marconi Prize was Tom Leighton, CEO of Akamai and creator of the content delivery network industry.

The list of previous winners reads like a who’s who of the world of technology:

• Internet pioneers Robert Kahn, Paul Baran, Vint Cerf and Leonard Kleinrock
• Leading fibre-optics inventors Sir Charles Kao and Sir David Payne
• World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee
• Cybersecurity innovators Whitfield Diffie, Martin E Hellman and Ron Rivest
• Wireless luminaries Irwin Jacobs, Henry Samueli and Marty Cooper
   

Nominations for the 2019 Marconi Prize are open until 31 July 2018.

Also open for nominations is The Marconi Society’s 2018 Paul Baran Young Scholars Award, which recognises visionary young people whose work is having an impact on our connected world.

The award is open to those who work in fields such as software engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning, information theory, network engineering and quantum communications.

In honour of Marconi, who was only 27 at the time he invented radio, nominees for this award must have been born in 1990 or later. Nominations are due by 30 June 2018.

Image of Guglielmo Marconi courtesy of The Marconi Society.

Please follow us and share on Twitter and Facebook. You can also subscribe for FREE to our weekly newsletter and bimonthly magazine.