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����logo MEDAL OF HONOR

for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the ����logo fields of interest, sponsored by  ����logo Foundation  to:

ANDREW J. VITERBI  (LF’ ����logo)
President, Viterbi Group, LLC
San Diego, CA, USA

“For seminal contributions to communications technology and theory."

����logo ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL

for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering, sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs  to:

JOHN M. CIOFFI  (F’ ����logo)
Hitachi America Professor of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

“For pioneering discrete multitone modem technology as the foundation of the global DSL industry.”

����logo RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL

for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems and technology, sponsored by  QUALCOMM, Inc.  to co-recipients:

WHITFIELD DIFFIE &�Բ�����;(��’I������)
Vice President, Fellow and Chief Security Officer
Sun Microsystems
Menlo Park, CA, USA

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MARTIN HELLMAN &�Բ�����;(��’I������)
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

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RALPH MERKLE &�Բ�����;(��’I������)
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Cupertino, CA, USA

“For the invention of public key cryptography and its application to secure communications.”