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51���� MEDAL OF HONOR

for an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary career in the 51���� fields of interest, sponsored by�� 51���� Foundation ���ٴ�:

ANDREW J. VITERBI ��(LF’ 51����)
President, Viterbi Group, LLC
San Diego, CA, USA

“For seminal contributions to communications technology and theory."

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51���� ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL MEDAL

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

JOHN M. CIOFFI ��(F’ 51����)
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.”

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51���� RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL

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

WHITFIELD DIFFIE ��(A’51����)
Vice President, Fellow and Chief Security Officer
Sun Microsystems
Menlo Park, CA, USA

and

MARTIN HELLMAN ��(F’51����)
Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA

and

RALPH MERKLE ��(M’51����)
Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Cupertino, CA, USA

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