ACM SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contribution Award (OCA) 2019:
"For Hardware and Software Contributions to the Conception and Practice of Context-Aware Mobile Computing"
ACM SIGMOBILE: Test-of-Time Award for “The Active Badge Location System” (June 2016)
ACM Ubicomp 2012: Ten-year Impact Award: "The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing." Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar, John Light, Ubicomp 2002
IEEE Fellow 2006: "Contributions to Ubiquitous Computing"
ACM Fellow 2005: "Contributions to Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing"
National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Lillian Gilbreth Lectureship, Lecture on the "Personal Server (Intel Research), Washington DC, Oct 12th, 2003.
Intel CTG Divisional Recognition Award (DRA) ; UMG customer support Q4 2009
Intel CTG Divisional Recognition Award (DRA) ; Worldmap Q2 2007
Intel CTG Divisional Recognition Award (DRA) ; Mobile Platform Innovation (MPI) Team, Q2 2006
Intel STO Divisional Recognition Award (DRA) ; XScale design-win support, Q1 2005
Intel MG/CHG Group Recognition Award (GRA) ; Contributions leading to the development of the CCF program", Q1 2005
Intel CTG Divisional Recognition Award (DRA) ; Personal Server Project, Q4 2004
Xerox PARC "Excellence in Science and Technology Award",
7th August 2000 for the completion of the Hikari project under contract from FX
Xerox PARC "Excellence in Science and Technology Award",
September 1997 with the EUI group for the PDR manipulative User interface design
Xerox PARC "Excellence in Science and Technology Award",
Jan 1993 for the design and deployment of the ParcTab system at Expo '92, Seville Spain
CEB, Nuffield Physics - Cambridge Examination Board prize: July 1979, "The change in length of a nickel rod in a magnetic field (magnetostriction)"