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Sun Labs Awards

The Envelope Please . . .

Awards to Sun Labs Staff Members

From recognition for the creation of technologies that have changed the face of computing, to papers on arcane computing theories, to recognition of outstanding team and individual accomplishment, these awards - local, national, and world-wide - recognize individual Sun Labs researchers and research groups for outstanding achievements in their fields, and highlight their breadth of talent and creativity.

Below in relatively chronological order are details on the awards and why they were given. Please scroll down to see all of them. Each award box links to additional information about the Sun Labs researchers and the technologies or activities for which they received the award.

Awards
Antero Taivalsaari	For Bringing Java to Mobile Phones: Meffys Outstanding Contribution Award to Antero Taivalsaari
Susan Landau	Susan Landau Awarded an Anita Borg Institute 2008 Women of Vision Award winner in the Social Impact category.
MPK20 Team	Computerworld Horizon Award - 2007 Project MPK20: Sun's Virtual Workplace
Jeff Rulifson	Jeff Rulifson Elected to SRI Alumni Hall of Fame
Danny Cohen	Danny Cohen Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering
Randy Smith	Most Influential Paper Award to Randy Smith
Mario Wolczko, Jo Ebergen Chris Vick, Laura Hill, Susan Landau	Five Sun Labs Members Recognized by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - 2006
Sun SPOTs Team Neuromancer Team	Computerworld Horizon Award - 2006 Sun SPOTs and Neuromancer
Ron Goldman and Dick Gabriel	Winners of a Productivity Award in Software Development's 16th Annual Jolt Awards, March 2006
Dr. Radia Perlman, Distinguished Engineer	Radia Perlman, Sun Labs Distinguished Engineer, Awarded an Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award in Innovation, October 2005
Ivan Sutherland, Sun Fellow and VP	Four Computer Industry Pioneers to Be Honored at the Computer History Museum's Fellow Awards Dinner & Ceremony, October 2005.
Proximity Communication Team	Computerworld 1st Annual Horizon Awards - Proximity Communication, September 2005.
Members of the Next Generation Crypto group with PerCom2005 Organizers	Mark Weiser Best Paper Award at PerCom 2005, March 2005.
Dr. Dick Gabriel , Distinguished Engineer and principal investigator	Dick Gabriel, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Laboratories, has been awarded the 2004 ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award.
Dr. Guy L. Steele, Jr., Sun Fellow	Guy L. Steele, Jr. recipient of the 2005 Dr. Dobb's Excellence In Programming Award.
Ashok Krishnamoorthy, an engineer and researcher at Sun Microsystems	2004 ICO Prize to Ashok Krishnamoorthy
Dr. Robert Drost Principal Research Scientist	MIT Technology Review TR100 Award
The Asynchronous Circuits group at Sun.	R&D Magazine R&D 100 Award
Whitfield Diffie, Sun Fellow and Chief Security Officer	Selected as a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
James Gosling, Sun Fellow, VP, CTO Software	Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Nir Shavit, Researcher, Sun Labs, and Maurice Herlihy, Professor, Brown University	"The Topological Structure of Asynchronous Computability": The 2004 Gödel Prize
Radia Perlman, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Labs	Inventor of the Year, Silicon Valley Intellectual Property Law Association (SVIPLA)

Robin Jeffries, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems	The CHI Lifetime Achievement Award
Danny Mitchell, Intern, 2002-2004, Sun Labs	Awarded a $1000 Work Experience Scholarship from the Palo Alto Unified School District

Chairman's Award for Innovation
Established in 1993, the Chairman's Award for Innovation recognizes Sun's top innovators, process improvement and availability champions whose individual or team accomplishments are integral to Sun's success. The Sun Labs award winners clearly embody the innovative research and thought that has been a hallmark of Labs' projects from the beginning.
2005
Back L-R: James Moore, Sarah Gordon, Dick Sillman (Sr. Director, Overall Team Leader), Tim Curry, Jim Beck, Mike Nugent, John Harada, Mike Davis (Team Leader) Front L-R: Wilson Ross, Shamim Mohamad, Jeremy Werner, Scott McNealy, Michael Goff, Amber Roy, Sacha Arnoud, Andy Siu, Josh Dobies, Rob Wygand III	Chairman's Award for Innovation: Honeycomb: A High Reliability Clustered Storage Appliance
Front L-R: William Schweickert, Marty Nahigian, Scott McNealy, Charmaine Radzewicz, Mark Terranova (Team Leader) Back L-R: Geordie Klueber, Ron Karr, Michael Shea, Robert Walsh, Gerald Beuchelt, Tom Karpowitz	Chairman's Award for Innovation: The Interoperability Systems Group (ISG):Stealthily Unearthing the Truth
2004
Sheueling Chang-Shantz, Vipul Gupta, Hans Eberle, Nils Gura flanked by Scott McNealy (L) and Greg Papadopoulos (R)	Chairman's Award for Innovation: Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Robert Drost, Ron Ho flanked by Scott McNealy (L) and Greg Papadopoulos (R)	Chairman's Award for Innovation: Proximity Communication
Tarik Ono,Tom O'Neill, Russ Brown flanked by Scott McNealy (L) and Greg Papadopoulos (R)	Chairman's Award for Innovation: Wide-Area Sun Ray

The Envelope Please . . .

Awards to Sun Labs Staff Members

Awards

Chairman's Award for Innovation

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