2020 ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contribution Award

Abstract

There are more smartphones than people today and communication technologies powering these phones help us stay connected all over the world. Perhaps one of the most fundamental aspects for mobile communication is the ability to make phone calls on-the-go. We take this for granted today, but someone has built that technology for us. That someone is Marty Cooper, who invented the first handheld cellular phone - DynaTAC - back in 1973.