Indian-born scientist Arogyaswami Joseph Paulraj and mathematics scholar Himanshu Asnani at Stanford University in the Silicon Valley have been awarded prizes by Marconi Society in Washington.
Paulraj, was honoured with the prestigious award for his pioneering work on developing wireless technology to transmit and receive data at high speed.
Asnani, 27, received the Society's Paul Baran young scholar award for contributing to point-to-point and multi-terminal channel coding and source coding problems.
Named after radio inventor and Nobel laureate Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937), Marconi Society awards annually individuals whose work and influence emulate the principle of creativity in service to humanity.
Marconi's daughter Gioia Marconi Braga had set up the society in 1974 through an endowment.
Paulraj donated his cash prize of $100,000 (Rs.60 lakh) to the Society's young scholar programme.
Asnani was also presented with a cash prize of $4,000 (Rs.2.4 lakh).
Indian-born American scientist and Hitachi America professor of engineering, emeritus at Stanford Thomas Kailath presented the awards to the achievers.
Paulraj joins a select group of IT pioneers who received the Marconi prize in past such as World Wide Web (WWW) creator Tin Berners-Lee, father of internet Vint Cerf, Google co-founder Larry Page and mobile phone developer Martin Cooper.
About prizeThe Marconi Prize is an annual award recognizing advancements in communications awarded by the Marconi Foundation. The Prize includes a $100,000 honorarium and a work of sculpture, and honorees are called Marconi Fellows. The Society and Prize are named in honor of Guglielmo Marconi, a Nobel laureate and one of the pioneers of radio.
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