SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award

For seminal development of Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) as a widely used fundamental mechanism for efficient wireless transmission.

For outstanding contributions to multi-antenna wireless communications through fundamental research, successful entrepreneurship, and inspired leadership.

For seminal contributions to the conception, practice and adoption of portable telephony.

For hardware and software contributions to the conception and practice of context-aware mobile computing.

For groundbreaking research, engineering and entrepreneurial leadership to make Wi-Fi faster, lower power, and lower cost.

For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of random access wireless networking including the development of ALOHA, the first packet data wireless network.

For pioneering contributions to mobile computing, communications and wireless networking.

For pioneering contributions to the first multi-hop packet switched radio network which formed the foundation for modern wireless networks.

For pioneering contributions to wireless Internet broadband technologies, and for inspirational leadership of the mobile computing community.

For pioneering contributions to the foundations of asymptotic performance analysis of large scale wireless networks.

For pioneering a wide spectrum of technologies in support of disconnected and weakly connected mobile clients.

For significant technical contributions and global advocacy of networked embedded systems.

For developing the TinyOS platform which significantly advanced wireless sensor networking research and associated applications.

For pioneering and fundamental contributions to wearable and context-aware computing.

For pioneering new areas of research in wireless and mobile computing, driven by a unique blend of innovative academic research and recognition of its commercial potential.

For pioneering contributions in the area of mobility and resource management for wireless communication networks.

For excellence in research and teaching of mobile computing systems and wireless networking.

For significant contributions to the design of distributed scheduling channel access protocols and leadership in mobile communications.

For fundamental contributions and leadership in developing the field of ubiquitous computing.

For ideas fundamental to the emergence of low power radio frequency communications devices and systems for handheld computers.

For fundamental contributions to the theory of multiple access protocols for radio frequency communications.

For fundamental contributions to statistical communications theory and its application to wireless and satellite systems.