2023
- Honorary Award 2023 – Description
Recipient: Andrew J. Viterbi “Fundamental and lasting contributions to communications technology and theory”
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2022
- Honorary Award 2022 – Description
Recipient: Pasquale Pistorio – The rebuilder of European Semiconductor industry, able to combine profit and environmental/social sustainability
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2021
- Honorary Award 2021 – Description
Recipient: Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli – for ground-breaking contributions and pioneering innovation in electronic design automation that have enabled the design of modern integrated circuits and their industrial implementation
Award Ceremony, (online), October 5, 2021
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Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli bio
Lecture given at the IEEE Day 2021 celebration
2020
- Honorary Award 2020 – Description
Recipient: Federico Capasso – for outstanding and pioneering contributions to the physics of quantum confined photonic systems and their applications, ranging from bandstructure engineering and the invention of Quantum Cascade Lasers to the physics and engineering of metasurfaces
Award Ceremony, (online), October 12, 2020
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Capasso group at Harward University
2019
- Honorary Award 2019 – Description
Recipient: Roberto Padovani – for pioneering innovations in mobile packet-switched Internet access, central to third- and fourth-generation cellular networks
Honorary Award Ceremony, Pisa (Italy), February 6, 2020
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Award Ceremony and presentations
2018
- Honorary Award 2018 – Description
Recipient: Federico Faggin – for his outstanding contributions to the self aligned MOS silicon gate theory & technology and to the development of the first microprocessor
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Award Ceremony and presentations
Federico Faggin: article on Corriere della Sera
2017
- Honorary Award 2017 – Description
Recipient: Leonardo Chiariglione – for the significant contribution in the development of MPEG international standards
Award Ceremony during RTSI 2017 (from left to right: Tiziana Tambosso, Leonardo Chiariglione, Bernardo Tellini)
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A vision made real – Past, present and future of MPEG
Il miracolo della nascita dell’MP3 e dello standard MPEG