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Seven handset, cellular-network, switching, service, and digital-radio pioneers helped turn mobile telephony into a global personal communications system.
Seven product, platform, and handheld-computing pioneers helped merge phones, PDAs, media players, Internet access, and touch software into the modern smartphone.
Seven founders, OS engineers, and design leaders helped transform handset software into the Android and iOS platform ecosystems.
Seven chip designers helped move programmable computing from standalone computers into tiny controllers embedded throughout everyday products.
Seven pioneers helped connect ubiquitous computing, RFID, smart dust, embedded sensing, constrained IP networking, and Internet architecture into the IoT.
Seven platform and ecosystem leaders helped make native mobile apps globally discoverable, installable, purchasable, and continuously updated.
Seven researchers helped define cloudlets, fog computing, edge systems, and the distributed computing continuum between devices and centralized clouds.
Seven roboticists helped bring behavior-based control, warehouse robotics, autonomous driving, social robots, field systems, distributed robots, and aerial swarms into real machines.
Seven researchers helped make low-power wireless sensing practical through smart dust, TinyOS, embedded networking, and large-scale sensing systems.
Seven researchers helped make timing guarantees, schedulability analysis, time-triggered architecture, and safety-critical programming central to real-time computing.