C&C Prizes is an award given by the NEC Corporation "in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development and/or pioneering work in the fields of semiconductors, computers, telecommunications and their integrated technologies." Established in 1985, through the NEC's nonprofit C&C Foundation, C&C Prizes are awarded to two groups or individuals annually. The prize includes a cash award of 10,000,000 yen.

Recipients

• 2010 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Hiroyuki Sakaki, Dr. Yasuhiko Arakawa
  • Group B: Dr. Linus Torvalds
    Linus Torvalds
    Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer and hacker, best known for having initiated the development of the open source Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator...
    
    

• 2009 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Fumitada Itakura
    Fumitada Itakura
    is a Japanese scientist who did pioneering work in statistical signal processing and its application to speech analysis and synthesis.Itakura was born in Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Nagoya University in 1963 and 1965, respectively. In 1968,...
    
     
  • Group B: Prof. Ronald L. Rivest, Prof. Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm , a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer...
    
    , Prof. Leonard M. Adleman

• 2008 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Hideo Aiso
  • Group B: Prof. Albert-László Barabási
    Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
    Albert-László Barabási is a physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. He is the former Emil T...
    
    

• 2007 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Robert D. Maurer
    Robert D. Maurer
    Dr. Robert D. Maurer is an American industrial physicist noted for his leadership in the invention of optical fiber.-Early life:...
    
    , Dr. John B. MacChesney
    John B. MacChesney
    Dr. John B. MacChesney is a Bell Labs pioneer in optical communication, best known for his 1974 invention of the modified chemical vapor deposition process with colleague P.B. O'Connor, and for co-inventing high-purity "sol-gel" overcladding for optical fiber in the early 1980s...
    
    , Dr. Tatsuo Izawa
  • Group B: Dr. Kenichi Iga

• 2006 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Ken Sakamura
    Ken Sakamura
    is a Japanese professor in Information science at the University of Tokyo. He is the creator of the real-time operating system architecture TRON.In 2001, he shared the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Well-Being with Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds....
    
     
  • Group B: Dr. Robert H. Dennard

• 2005 Recipients
  • Group A: Mr. Kei-ichi Enoki , Mr. Takeshi Natsuno , Ms. Mari Matsunaga
  • Group B: Dr. Robert E. Kahn, Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts, Prof. Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock is an American engineer and computer scientist. A computer science professor at UCLA's Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, he made several important contributions to the field of computer networking, in particular to the theoretical side of computer networking...
    
    

• 2004 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Zen'iti Kiyasu
  • Group B: Prof. John L. Hennessy
    John L. Hennessy
    John LeRoy Hennessy is an American computer scientist and academician. Hennessy is one of the founders of MIPS Computer Systems Inc. and is the 10th President of Stanford University.-Background:...
    
    , Prof. David A. Patterson
    David A. Patterson
    David Andrew Patterson is an American computer pioneer and academic who has held the position of Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley since 1977....
    
    

• 2003 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Shun-ichi Amari
    Shun'ichi Amari
    Amari Shun'ichi, 甘利俊一 【あまりしゅんいち】, is a Japanese scholar born in 1936 in Tokyo, Japan.He majored in Mathematical Engineering in 1958 from the University of Tokyo then graduated in 1963 from the Graduate School of the University of Tokyo....
    
     
  • Group B: Dr. Gordon E. Moore

• 2002 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Tadao Umesao
  • Group B: Dr. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

• 2001 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Takuo Sugano
  • Group B: Dr. Alan C. Kay

• 2000 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Takeo Kanade
    Takeo Kanade
    is a Japanese computer scientist and one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision. He is currently U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor at Carnegie Mellon University...
    
     
  • Group B: Dr. Robert W. Dutton

• 1999 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Makoto Nagao
    Makoto Nagao
    is a Japanese computer scientist. He contributed to various fields: machine translation, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing and library science...
    
     
  • Group B: Dr. Willard S. Boyle, Dr. George E. Smith
    George E. Smith
    George Elwood Smith is an American scientist, applied physicist, and co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. He was awarded a one-quarter share in the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor".Smith was born in White Plains, New York...
    
    

• 1998 Recipients
  • Group A: Prof. Fernando J. Corbato
    Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando José "Corby" Corbató is a prominent American computer scientist, notable as a pioneer in the development of time-sharing operating systems....
    
    
  • Group B: Dr. Isamu Akasaki
    Isamu Akasaki
    is a Japanese scientist, best known for inventing p-n junction blue LEDs using gallium nitride as early as 1989.-Blue LEDs:Akasaki was born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1929, and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1952 from Kyoto University. He received his PhD degree in Electronics from...
    
     , Dr. Shuji Nakamura
    Shuji Nakamura
    is a professor at the Materials Department of the College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara .- Career :Nakamura graduated from the University of Tokushima in 1977 with a degree in electronic engineering, and obtained a master's degree in the same subject two years later, after...
    
     

• 1997 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. John L. Moll
    John L. Moll
    John Louis Moll was an American electrical engineer, notable for his contributions to solid-state physics....
    
    
  • Group B: Dr. Barry G. Haskel, Dr. Arun N. Netravali

• 1996 Recipients
  • Group A: Mr. Paul Baran
    Paul Baran
    Paul Baran was a Polish American engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks.He invented packet switching techniques, and went on to start several companies and develop other technologies that are an essential part of the Internet and other modern digital...
    
    , Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Mr. Tim Berners-Lee
    Tim Berners-Lee
    Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, , also known as "TimBL", is a British computer scientist, MIT professor and the inventor of the World Wide Web...
    
    
  • Group B: Prof. Donald O. Pederson, Prof. Ernest S. Kuh, Prof. Ronald A. Rohrer

• 1995 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Akira Hasegawa
  • Group B: Dr. Alfred Yi Cho
    Alfred Y. Cho
    Alfred Yi Cho is the Adjunct Vice President of Semiconductor Research at Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs. He is known as the "father of molecular beam epitaxy"; a technique he developed at that facility in the late 1960s. He is also the co-inventor, with Federico Capasso of quantum cascade lasers at...
    
    

• 1994 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. John Cocke
    John Cocke
    John Cocke was an American computer scientist recognized for his large contribution to computer architecture and optimizing compiler design. He is considered by many to be "the father of RISC architecture."...
    
    
  • Group B: Dr. Yasuharu Suematsu , Dr. Takanori Okoshi
    Takanori Okoshi
    Takanori Okoshi is a noted Japanese professor of electrical engineering, now retired, and an amateur composer of over 30 pieces of chamber music for quartet or sextet....
    
     

• 1993 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Shun'ichi Iwasaki
  • Group B: Prof. William A. Gambling, Prof. David N. Payne

• 1992 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Toshiyuki Sakai
  • Group B: Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin
    Eberhardt Rechtin
    Eberhardt Rechtin was an American systems engineer and respected authority in aerospace systems and systems architecture.- Biography :...
    
    , Mr. Walter K. Victor, Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi

• 1991 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Yasuo Tarui , Dr. Hiroo Toyoda
  • Group B: Dr. Jack M. Sipress

• 1990 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. George H. Heilmeier
    George H. Heilmeier
    George Harry Heilmeier is an American engineer and businessman, who was a pioneering contributor to liquid crystal displays.-Biography:...
    
    
  • Group B: Dr. Takuro Muratani , Dr. Yasuhiko Ito

• 1989 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Noboru Takagi , Dr. Shigebumi Saito , Dr. Tamiya Nomura
  • Group B: Mr. Dennis M. Ritchie, Mr. Kenneth L. Thompson
    Ken Thompson
    Kenneth Lane Thompson , commonly referred to as ken in hacker circles, is an American pioneer of computer science...
    
    

• 1988 Recipients
  • Group A: Prof. Maurice V. Wilkes
  • Group B: Dr. John S. Mayo
    John S. Mayo
    John S. Mayo is an American engineer, known from contributions to the computer and telecommunications industry,and as being the seventh president of Bell Labs ....
    
    , Mr. Eric E. Sumner
    Eric E. Sumner
    Eric Eden Sumner was an Austrian engineer and scientist, well known for hiscontributions to the early developments of switching systems.Born in Vienna, he moved to New York City where he went to...
    
    , Mr. M. Robert Aaron
    M. Robert Aaron
    M. Robert Aaron was a noted American electrical engineer specializing in telecommunications.Aaron was born in Philadelphia, served in the United States Coast Guard during World War II, received his bachelor's and master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and...
    
    

• 1987 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Hiroshi Inose
    Hiroshi Inose
    was an electrical engineer, known as the inventor of the Time-Slot Interchange system, which is basic to modern digital telephone switches.-Biography:...
    
     
  • Group B: Dr. Charles Kuen Kao

• 1986 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner
  • Group B: Dr. Izuo Hayashi
    Izuo Hayashi
    ' was a Japanese physicist.Hayashi was born in Tokyo in 1922 and graduated from the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo in 1946. He then worked as assistant professor at the Institute for Nuclear Research of the same university and defended his PhD in 1962...
    
     , Dr. Morton B. Panish

• 1985 Recipients
  • Group A: Dr. Hideo Yamashita , Dr. Hiroshi Wada
  • Group B: Dr. Lawrence A. Hyland
    Lawrence A. Hyland
    Lawrence A. "Pat" Hyland was an American electrical engineer. He is one of several people credited with major contributions to the invention of radar, but is probably best known as the man who transformed Hughes Aircraft from Howard Hughes' aviation "hobby shop" into one of the world's leading...
    
    , Dr. Harold A. Rosen
  • Group C: Dr. Joseph V. Charyk
    Joseph V. Charyk
    Joseph Vincent Charyk was the first Director of the National Reconnaissance Office.Charyk consolidated the CIA, Air force, and Navy space programs into the NRO. He brought the first United States imagery satellite, CORONA, into operation and demonstrated signals intelligence technology from space...
    
    , Mr. Sidney Metzger

External links

• 財団法人 NEC C&C財団(Japanese)
• NEC C&C Foundation