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Principal Engineer Ray Tomlinson Inducted into Internet Hall of Fame

Ray Tomlinson was among the first inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame for his invention of email. Tomlinson made the historic choice to separate the name of his message’s recipient from the name of the host computer using the @ symbol, now one of the most universally recognized digital icons on the planet.

Chief Scientist Jim Barger Elected to NAE

Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer and honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice, or education.  Dr. Barger’s NAE citation reads, “For applications of acoustic technology and engineering solutions for the benefit of national security and society.”

VESSEL team earns NTSA award for outstanding achievement in modeling and simulation

Raytheon BBN Technologies Named Star Performer and Market Leader in Speech Security

Raytheon BBN Technologies receives Market Leader Award for Speech Security and named Star Performer at this year's 2010 Speech Industry Awards.

NASA Tech Brief Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies scientist Saikat Guha earned the NASA Tech Brief Award for his paper, “Phase-conjugate receiver for Gaussian-state quantum illumination,” which was published in the NASA Tech Briefs magazine.

Serious Games Showcase & Challenge

Raytheon BBN’s VESSEL Damage Control Trainer won the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge in the business category at the Annual Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), the world’s largest modeling and simulation conference. VESSEL is  an immersive, game-based training environment that teaches damage control skills, shipboard communication and shipboard navigation to U.S. Navy recruits, without the costs and risks involved with live training.

Raytheon BBN Technologies Named One of the Top Places to Work

Raytheon BBN Technologies was again named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in The Globe 100’s Top Places to Work, which recognizes the most progressive companies in the state based on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation and training, diversity/inclusion, career development, family-friendly flexibility, and values and ethics.

Prince of Asturias Laureate

Raytheon BBN Technologies Principal Scientist Ray Tomlinson named Prince of Asturias Laureate for Technical and Scientific Research for his development of email and advancement of human communication.

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies Chief Scientist John Makhoul accepted the award at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in Taipei, Taiwan for his work on the behaviors, properties, and applications of speech models.

Raytheon BBN Technologies Named One of the Top Places to Work

Raytheon BBN Technologies was named one of the Top Places to Work in Massachusetts in The Globe 100’s Top Places to Work, which recognizes the most progressive companies in the state based on employee opinions about company leadership, compensation and training, diversity/inclusion, career development, family-friendly flexibility, and values and ethics.

Employer of the Year Award

Christina Ramos of Raytheon BBN's Human Resources department earned the Warren P. Mac Eachern Outstanding Employer of the Year Award from the city of Cambridge, MA for dedication and support of Cambridge Youth Employment.

IEEE Internet Award

Ginny Travers, a BBN senior scientist, received the prestigious 2008 IEEE Internet Award for early work on routers.

"40 Under 40" Award

Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, division scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, is recognized as one of Greater Boston's next generation of business leaders and innovators with the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" award.

IEEE Computer Society Keynote Speaker Award

The IEEE Computer Society honored Peiter “Mudge" Zatko, a division scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, with its Keynote Speaker Award “In recognition of advanced achievements in the area of network computing and applications.

2007 MITX Technology Impact Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies earned the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange (MITX) Societal Impact Award for the Stereo Digital Mammography System.

TR 35

Prithwish Basu, a scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, was named one of The 2006 Young Innovators Under 35 by Technology Review for his work on ad hoc networks.

2006 MITX Technology Awards

Raytheon BBN Technologies earned Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange(MITX) Awards in two categories: Raytheon BBN Technologies Broadcast Monitoring System was honored in the Communication/Collaboration category and Podzinger was honored as the best technology in the web 2.0 category.

DARPA Excellence Award for Significant Technical Achievement

BBN earned The DARPA Significant Technical Achievement Award for developing Boomerang, an effective and innovative shot detection system.

Best Places to Work

Raytheon BBN Technologies is named as one of the Best Places to Work in Massachusetts by the Boston Business Journal

Boston Business Hall of Fame

Raytheon BBN Technologies honored as inductee into the Boston Business Hall of Fame in recognition of innovation, integrity, community contributions, and a commitment to growing locally.

2005 MITX Technology Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies earned Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange(MITX) Technology Influencer of the Year Award for the Boomerang Shooter Detection System.

IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award

Marcos A. Bergamo, Principal Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, earned the 2005 IEEE Judith A. Resnik Award, given to recognize outstanding contributions to space engineering.

The award citation reads: "For contributions to engineering and developing the world's first gigabit speed satellite network."

AVIOS Best Technology for Audio Search Award

Raytheon BBN's AVOKE™ STX speech-to-text system earned the AVIOS Best Technology for Audio Search Award at SpeechTEK. AVOKE STX enables multimedia search with standard Web interfaces by transforming audio into searchable content.

James S. Cogswell Industrial Security Achievement Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies earned the Department of Defense Security Achievement Award for outstanding implementation and maintenance of rational, cost-effective security measures. Award criteria include leadership, strategic planning, customer focus, information and analysis, security awareness, and security program results.

IEEE Internet Award

Ray Tomlinson, Principal Engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies, earned the 2004 IEEE Internet Award for his key role in the conceptualization, first implementation, and standardization of networked email.

Dr. Leo Beranek wins National Medal of Science

Dr. Leo Beranek, a renowned acoustical scientist and one of the three co-founders of Raytheon BBN Technologies received one of the highest honors bestowed on scientists in this country -- the National Medal of Science.The National Medal of Science honors individuals for pioneering scientific research that has led to a better understanding of the world around us, as well as to the innovations and technologies that give the United States its global economic edge. In bestowing the medal, President Bush cited Beranek for his leadership, dedication and contributions to the art and science of acoustics; for co-founding one of the world's foremost acoustical research and consulting firms; and for sustained contributions to scientific societies and civic organizations.

Raytheon BBN Technologies Earns SBA Award of Distinction

Raytheon BBN Technologies Technologies earned the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Award of Distinction. This award was initiated in 1985 to recognize federal contractors that have exceptional small business subcontracting programs. Less than 2% of the SBA's portfolio of 2,500 federal contractors have earned this award. The SBA reviews companies to ensure compliance with subcontracting laws and regulations and rates each company from unsatisfactory to outstanding. Only companies rated outstanding may be nominated for the Award of Distinction.

Raytheon BBN Technologies Audio Indexer Wins Best of Show

Raytheon BBN's Audio Indexer, a system for creating indexed, searchable transcriptions of any audio source--telephone calls, speeches, radio and television broadcasts, teleconferences, and meetings--in English, Spanish, Chinese, or Arabic in real-time on standard PC hardware, won a Best of Show Award at the Spring Computer Telephony Expo 2002.

University of Michigan Richard W. Pew Collegiate Professorship in Human Computer Interaction

The University of Michigan named a collegiate chair in honor of Raytheon BBN Technologies Principal Scientist, Richard Pew. The chair honors Pew for his work in human factors, human-computer interaction, human performance, and experimental psychology. His work includes a professorship in the University of Michigan department of psychology from 1963 to 1974, where his work focused on the timing and control of motor performance and led to the development of a series of models of human performance and the study of performance in applied settings; development of one of the earliest "style guides" for user interfaces in 1975; design and implementation of one of the first usability labs at the Social Security Administration in 1978-79; leading a pioneering study of decision making in nuclear power plant control rooms that laid the foundation for future computer decision aiding in power plants; and serving as the first Chair of the National Research Council's Standing Committee on Human Factors.

ACM/SIGCOMM Best Student Paper Award

Alex Snoeren of Raytheon BBN's Internetwork Research department, and an M.I.T Ph.D. candidate, won the best student paper award for "Hash-Based IP Traceback" (co-authored with Raytheon BBN Technologies colleagues Craig Partridge, Luis Sanchez, Christine Jones, Fabrice Tchakountio, Steve Kent, and Tim Strayer), presented at the ACM/SIGCOMM 2001 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, August 27-31, 2001 in San Diego, CA.

NASA Commitment to Excellence Award

The NASA New England Outreach Center honored John Forcucci, Small Business Program Manager at Raytheon BBN Technologies, with the Commitment to Excellence Award at a ceremony during the 10th NASA Technology and Business Conference, held in Providence, Rhode Island. The award recognizes Forcucci's advocacy of small businesses in the Northeast.

Best of Call Center Demo and Conference

Raytheon BBN Technologies Call Director earned Call Center magazine's Best of Call Center Demo and Conference 2001 award at the third annual Call Center Demo and Conference in Orlando.

Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement

Ray Tomlinson, principal engineer at Raytheon BBN Technologies, received an International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 5th Annual Webby Awards ceremony at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco on July 18, 2001. The Webby Lifetime Achievement award honors Tomlinson for a lifetime of Internet and computer networking achievements.

SISO Outstanding Paper Certificate

Sandra Spector and Yvette Tenney, Raytheon BBN Technologies Human Factors Specialists, earned an Outstanding Paper certificate for their work, "Comparisons of HBR Models with Human-in-the-loop Performance in a Simplified Air Traffic Control Simulation with and without HLA Protocols: Task Simulation, Human Data and Results" from the Simulation Interoperability Standards Organization (SISO). The paper was presented at the 10th Conference on Computer Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation, May 15-17, 2001 in Norfolk, VA.

Best Paper Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies' speech and language processing scientists Bernhard Suhm and Patrick Peterson were awarded Honorable Mention for the Best Paper Award for their presentation of "Evaluating Cost Effectiveness and Usability of Telephone User Interfaces" at the VIOS 2001 conference in San Jose, CA.

Contractor Awards

Raytheon BBN Technologies earned two Defense Contract Management Boston awards. The U.S. government encourages its contractors to direct at least 5% of their outsourced work to minority-owned businesses. Raytheon BBN Technologies was recognized for both exceeding the 5% goal in 2000 and again for exceeding the goal for three consecutive years.

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Editor's Certificate

Raytheon BBN Technologies Division Scientist David Getty received the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Editor's Certificate in 2000 for the fifth consecutive year. Getty serves as an editorial consultant to RadioGraphics, a radiology journal published by RSNA, and has been reviewing articles for the journal on a regular basis for the past five years.

The award citation reads: "For outstanding service to RSNA and RadioGraphics."

Distinguished Investigator Award

Raytheon BBN's Speech and Language Processing department earned the DARPA Communicator 2000 Distinguished Investigator Award for Excellence in Industrial Research.

IEEE Third Millennium Medal

John Makhoul, a Chief Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium medal at a ceremony during the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing in Istanbul, Turkey. Makhoul earned this medal for his seminal research in, and outstanding contributions, to the field of speech and language processing.

Lesley College Technology in Education Award

Wallace Feurzeig, a Principal Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, was honored at the 20th Anniversary national celebration of the Technology in Education Program of Lesley College, Cambridge, MA.

The Lesley College citation reads: "For your contributions and many years of dedication to the Technology in Education Program, 1979-1999."

Computer Pioneer Award

Ray Tomlinson, a Principal Scientist at Raytheon BBN Technologies, was honored for inventing email by the American Computer Museum and the Computer Science Department of Montana State University-Bozeman. Tomlinson received the George R. Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award at ceremonies held at the Gallatin Inn in Gallatin Gateway, Montana. The award is given to outstanding computer pioneers.

Best of Show

Raytheon BBN Technologies Call Director™ natural language call routing technology is such a service breakthrough that it took top honors at Computer Telephony Expo Spring 2000, winning "Best of Show" for its unique approach to optimizing call center performance.

Distinguished Service Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies Principal Scientist Richard Pew was awarded the Arnold M. Small President's Distinguished Service Award of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The award, one of the highest bestowed by the Society, is given for life-long contributions to the discipline of human factors and to the Society and recognizes Pew's outstanding advancement of the human factors profession and the Society during his career.

IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition Award

Raytheon BBN Technologies Technologies received the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition award in 1999. The IEEE, the largest and most prestigious transnational technical organization in the world, has advanced the theory and application of electrotechnology and served as a catalyst for technological innovation. Established in 1985, the IEEE Corporate Innovation Recognition is awarded for outstanding and exemplary contributions by an industrial entity, governmental or academic organization, or other corporate body. Raytheon BBN Technologies was recognized...

"For pioneering contributions to computer networking technology through the development of the first packet switches, the ARPANET Interface Message Processor (IMP), and Terminal Interface Message Processor (TIP)."

Pioneer in Educational Computing

Wallace Feurzeig, a Raytheon BBN Technologies Principal Scientist, was honored as a "Pioneer in Educational Computing" at the 20th annual meeting of the National Educational Computer Conference. The award recognized Feurzeig for the important impact he has had as a "trailblazer and acknowledged leader in the field of educational computing."