18/03/2022
While reading an article on social media I came to know that Siavash M. Alamouti has been awarded the Marconi Award for the year 2022. It came as no surprise as his work on MIMO technology has been ground breaking and has influenced the work of thousands of researchers. If there is a moot point it is that this award must have been given earlier. Just look up his 1998 paper on Google Scholar and you will find that the number of citations has reached a staggering figure of 18,756. On a personal front, I must admit that when I started my research on MIMO I was having difficulty grasping the concepts and it was Alamouti’s paper that set my direction of research.
I was intrigued to find out who the other recipients of Marconi Award are? And what are their contributions to the field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet)? Lo and behold I found out that there have been more than 50 winners, some individual and some joint. But who are the ones that stand out? That I have come across in my research work and have influenced it? So without any disrespect to the others I have come up with the list of 12 recipients that I find most deserving.
1990 Andrew Viterbi
1994 Robert Kahn
1996 Gottfried Ungerboeck
1997 David Forney
1999 James L. Massey
2003 Robert Gallager
2004 Sergey Brin and Larry Page
2011 Irwin Jacobs
2012 Henry Samueli
2014 Arogyaswami Paulraj
2020 Andrea Goldsmith
2022 Siavash Alamouti
I was intrigued to find out who the other recipients of Marconi Award are? And what are their contributions to the field of communications (radio, mobile, wireless, telecommunications, data communications, networks, and Internet)? Lo and behold I found out that there have been more than 50 winners,....
