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Re:2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn by Jtsummers on Friday January 26, 2024 @11:32PM (#39152589)
Because it's a career achievement award. Look at the other people who have received it and when, in their lives, they received it. It's also a bit of a broader category of award than the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal he received 3 decades ago which is for the field of telecommunications. Vint Cerf only received it last year himself. It also looks like it's not awarded to more than one person at a time, and it's only awarded annually, so that limits the number of people who could ever possibly receive it quite a bit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_Medal_of_Honor

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Re:2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn by rramadass on Saturday January 27, 2024 @01:33AM (#39153185)
Agreed; but sometimes it just feels like these award committees have no sense of timing and it often appears like a case of "too little too late". Awards should be given as soon as a person's discoveries/inventions have been validated and when people are still aware of them to make an impact on public consciousness.
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