Professor Stephen Pink is selected as recipient of the 1998 Telenor Research Award, for his significant contributions to developing new capabilities in the Internet. He is rewarded for the work he has done while he was with the Swedish Institute for Computer Science (SICS) and in his present position at Luleå University. His work has primarily contributed to performance in IP networks, in the following fields:

Some of these results are of special importance for internet services on mobile networks and solutions for the coming UMTS and IMT2000 standards. Others are important for the development of high speed networks - another important trend. Professor Pink is working direct with the industry on these problems. He is also very active in the Internet Engineering Task Force, and has managed to influence both standardisation of the IPv6 protocol and future product development.

Besides his professional achievements the jury also emphasised the special importance of the field he is working in. During the last few years we have seen Internet come up as the new enabling technology for the advancement of the information society, with a potential to fundamentally change the whole telecommunications industry.

Stephen Pink has been a Professor of Computer Communication at the Luleå University
of Technology since 1996. His research is in the areas of protocol design, high speed networking,
mobile computing and operating systems.

Professor Pink is of American origin; he has worked in industry and academia in a number of
disciplines before moving to Sweden in 1987. He now focuses on research problems related to
communication on the Internet.

Professor Pink has had his work published in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc), IFIP (The International Federation
for Information Processing) and other journals, conferences and workshops. He is currently also
Research Director of the Hewlett-Packard Internet Research Institute at the Swedish Institute of
Computer Science, where, before moving to Luleå, he was Manager of the Computer and Network
Architecture Laboratory.

Degrees:
Bachelor of Arts – University of Minnesota, 1970
Master of Arts – Cornell University, Ithaca NY, 1973
PhD – Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Teleinformatics, Stockholm 1993