IEEE Internet Award

IEEE Internet Award is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE that was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in June 1999. The award is sponsored by Nokia Corporation. It may currently be presented annually to an individual or up to three recipients, for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. Awardees receive a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

The recipients of the award have been the following people:

• 2000 - Paul Baran, Donald W. Davies, Leonard Kleinrock and Larry Roberts (for packet switching)
• 2001 - Louis Pouzin (for datagrams)
• 2002 - Steve Crocker (for approach enabling evolution of Internet Protocols)
• 2003 - Paul Mockapetris (the Mockapetris citation specifically cites Jon Postel who had died and therefore could not receive the award for their DNS work) (for the domain name system)
• 2004 - Raymond Tomlinson and David H. Crocker (for networked email)
• 2005 - Sally Floyd (for contributions in congestion control, traffic modeling, and active queue management)
• 2006 - Scott Shenker (for contributions to the study of resource sharing)
• 2007 - not awarded
• 2008 - Mike Brecia, Ginny Travers, and Bob Hinden (for early routers)
• 2009 - Lixia Zhang (for Internet architecture and modeling)
• 2010 - Stephen Deering (for IP multicasting and IPv6)
• 2011 - Jun Murai (for leadership in the development of the global Internet, especially in Asia)
• 2012 - Mark Handley (for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility, and/or end-use applications)
• 2013 - David L. Mills (for significant leadership and sustained contributions in the research, development, standardization, and deployment of quality time synchronization capabilities for the Internet)