Tech pioneer who accelerated internet speeds receives prestigious IEEE Medal

"Today, I don't know anybody who can say they know what artificial intelligence is going to bring us in five years, let alone one year or two years," says Henry Samueli, a pioneer in digital modem technology and recipient of the IEEE's 2025 Medal of Honor. Tiernan Ray/ZDNET In the early days of the consumer internet, most access was via a dial-up modem, a device hooked up to a phone line that transmitted requests for web pages via squeaks and squawks like someone yelling into the line. Also: Microsoft's quantum chip Majarona 1 is a few qubits short That primitive connectivity was dramatically altered by the advent of the digital broadband cable modem, a device that helped turn chip-maker Broadcom into a huge public company. Equivalent to a lifetime achievement award On Thursday in New York, Henry Samueli, 70, was honored with the equivalent of a lifetime achievement award in computing for having developed those innovations and founding Broadcom in 1991 with partner Henry T. Nichol ... Read full article.