Adam Dunkels receives Chester Carlson PrizeDr. Adam Dunkels, senior scientist at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, has been awarded the 2007 Chester Carlson Prize, the most prestigious prize for the information sciences in Sweden, for his prominent work on network-connectivity for small, low-cost embedded systems. The Chester Carlson Prize was founded in 1985 in memory of Chester Carlson, the Swedish-American inventor of the copying machine and founder of the Xerox Corporation. The prize winner is selected by Xerox and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. The prize sum is 100,000 SEK (€ 10,600).  Adam Dunkels, winner of the 2007 Chester Carlson prize. Photo: Lars Nyman. Over 98% of all microprocessors that are sold today are used in embedded systems, most of which have less than one millionth of the memory of a modern PC. By developing the lwIP and uIP embedded TCP/IP stacks and the Contiki operating system, Adam Dunkels has established that even such very small embedded systems can be connected to the Internet. He has released his research results as open source software that today is used by hundreds of companies in products ranging from car engines and oil-pipeline monitoring equipment to airplanes and satellites. The jury's motivation is: "For the development of operating systems and communication software that enables cost-effective Internet connectivity for new product classes, for example car engines, weather stations, and film production equipment." The prize ceremony was held at the Utsikt 2008 conference in Stockholm, Sweden, on 7 February 2008. |