In 1994 I have received award of the Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic for the design and implementation of the CESNET network.
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I was awarded with Medal award 2016 from the Karel Vietsch Foundation. Medal of Honour is awarded on an annual basis [www.vietsch-foundation.org]
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In 2019 I was awarded by Medal from Rector of Masaryk University Brno for cooperation of CESNET and Masaryk University at the occasion of 100 years of establishment of the Masaryk University
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It was a great honor to me to be introduced into Internet Hall of Fame in late 2021. My introduction speech is available in IHoF video archive. There is a also a blogpost about my contribution on their website.
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I was awarded by Czech Internet community represented with NIX.CZ, CESNET, CZ.NIC a LUPA.cz for my long standing contribution to (not only) Czech Internet. There is a video recording from the event held November 24th 2022 available at iVysílání archive (seek to 1h 50m).
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