until 2016. During this time, his research covered several areas, such as software engineering for distributed systems, distributed multimedia applications, peer-to-peer systems, control procedures for optical networks, and Internet security. Awards and memberships (selection) 1995: Fellow of the IEEE with the citation "For contributions to the formal specification of protocols for data communications". 1995: Honorary doctorat from the University of Grenoble in France 1996: Fellow of the ACM 1997: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada 2001: Thomas W. Eadie Medal given by the Royal Society of Canada 2002: Award for excellence in research from University of Ottawa 2008: McNaughton Gold Medal given by IEEE Canada 2012: Honorary doctorat from the University of Rennes in France References External links home page at the University of Ottawa Canadian computer scientists University of Ottawa faculty Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery 1941 births McGill University Faculty of Science alumni Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Fellow Members of the IEEE Living people