India-Born Stanford Don Wins Marconi Prize

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 23 January 2014, 00:06 IST
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Bangalore: Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj, India-born professor at Stanford University in the U.S. is the winner of the Marconi Prize 2014 for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive data at high speed.

"Paulraj's contributions to wireless technology, and the resulting benefit to humankind, are indisputable. Every WiFi (wireless fidelity) router and 4G phone uses Multiple Input-Multiple Output (MIMO) technology pioneered by him," Marconi Society chairman David Payne said in a statement Wednesday from California.

Named after Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi, who invented radio, and set up in 1974 by his daughter Gioia Marconi Braga through an endowment, the Marconi Society awards annually an outstanding individual whose scope of work and influence emulate the principle of 'creativity in service to humanity' that inspired Marconi.

The prestigious prize includes $100,000 (6.2 million) honorarium and a sculpture and its honourees become Marconi Fellows.

Among the winners of the prize in the recent past were Google co-founder Larry Page, World Wide Web (www) designer Tim Berners-Lee, Internet founder Vint Cerf of Internet, cell phone inventor Martin Cooper and fiber-optic communications developer Charles Kao.
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