1997:
Awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE)
IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
Duddell Medal of the Institute of Physics
Interactive Services Association's Distinguished Service Award
MCI Computerworld/Smithsonian Award for Leadership in Innovation 
International Communication Institute's Columbus Prize

1998:
Charles Babbage award
Mountbatten Medal of the National Electronics Council
Lord Lloyd of Kilgerran Prize from the Foundation for Science and Technology
PC Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award in Technical Excellence
MacArthur Fellowship
The Eduard Rhein Technology Award
Honorary Fellow, Institution of Electrical Engineers

1999:
Named "One of the 100 greatest minds of the century" by Time Magazine
World Technology Award for Communication Technology
Honorary Fellowship, The Society for Technical Communications

2000:
Paul Evan Peters Award of ARL, Educause and CNI
Electronic Freedom Foundation's Pioneer Award
George R Stibitz Computer Pioneer Award, American Computer Museum 
Special Award for Outstanding Contribution of the World Television Forum

2001:
Sir Frank Whittle Medal, the Royal Academy of Engineering
Fellow, Royal Society
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2002:
Japan Prize, the Science and Technology Foundation of Japan
Prince of Asturias Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technical Research (shared with Larry Roberts, Rob Kahn and Vint Cerf)
Fellow, Guglielmo Marconi Foundation
Albert Medal of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Art, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

2004:
Knighted (KBE) by H.M. the Queen for services to the global development of the Internet 
Millennium Technology Prize
Special Award of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Member, American Philosophical Society

2005:
Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service for Mass Communications
Die Quadriga Award
Financial Times Lifetime Achievement Award

2006:
President's Medal, the Institute of Physics

2007:
Awarded the Order of Merit by H.M. the Queen
Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering
Lovelace Medal, British Computer Society
D&AD President's Award for Innovation and Creativity
MITX (Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange) Leadership Award
Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Engineering

2008:
BITC Award for Excellence
IEEE/RSE Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award
Fellow, IEEE
Pathfinder Award, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

2009:
Foreign Associate, National Academy of Sciences
Webby Awards Lifetime Achievement Award

2010:
UNESCO Niels Bohr Gold Medal Award

2011:
The Mikhail Gorbachev Award
DAMA Web Awards, Bilbao Web Summit

Honorary Degrees:
Parsons School of Design, New York (D.F.A., 1995)
Southampton University (D.Sc., 1995)
Essex University (D.U., 1998)
Southern Cross University (1998)
Open University (D.U., 2000)
Columbia University (D.Law, 2001)
Oxford University (D.Sc., 2001)
University of Port Elizabeth (DSc., 2002) 
Lancaster University (D.Sc., 2004)
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2008)
University of Manchester (2008)
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2009)
Université de Liège (2009)
VU University Amsterdam (2009)
Harvard University (2011)