Claude E. Shannon Award
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The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society
was instituted to honour consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory
. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. It is the most prestigious prize in information theory
, comprising contributions at the interface of Mathematics, Communication Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science.
IEEE Information Theory Society
The IEEE Information Theory Society , formerly the IEEE Information Theory Group, is a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers focused on several aspects of information: its processing, transmission, storage, and usage; and the "foundations of the...
was instituted to honour consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory
Information theory
Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...
. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. It is the most prestigious prize in information theory
Information theory
Information theory is a branch of applied mathematics and electrical engineering involving the quantification of information. Information theory was developed by Claude E. Shannon to find fundamental limits on signal processing operations such as compressing data and on reliably storing and...
, comprising contributions at the interface of Mathematics, Communication Engineering and Theoretical Computer Science.
Past winners
- Claude E. Shannon (1972)
- David S. SlepianDavid SlepianDavid S. Slepian was an American mathematician.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania he studied B.Sc. at University of Michigan before joining the forces in World War II,as Sonic deception officer in the Ghost army....
(1974) - Robert M. FanoRobert FanoRobert Mario Fano is an Italian-American computer scientist, currently professor emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Fano is known principally for his work on information theory, inventing Shannon-Fano coding...
(1976) - Peter EliasPeter EliasPeter Elias was a pioneer in the field of information theory. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991....
(1977) - Mark S. Pinsker (1978)
- Jacob WolfowitzJacob WolfowitzJacob Wolfowitz was a Polish-born American statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz....
(1979) - W. Wesley PetersonW. Wesley PetersonWilliam Wesley Peterson was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for inventing the Cyclic Redundancy Check , for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999....
(1981) - Irving S. ReedIrving S. ReedIrving Stoy Reed is a mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed-Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon...
(1982) - Robert G. GallagerRobert G. GallagerRobert Gray Gallager is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and communications networks. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1968 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1979. He received the Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory...
(1983) - Solomon W. GolombSolomon W. GolombSolomon Wolf Golomb is an American mathematician and engineer and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known to the general public and fans of mathematical games as the inventor of polyominoes, the inspiration for the computer game Tetris...
(1985) - William L. Root (1986)
- James L. Massey (1988)
- Thomas M. CoverThomas M. CoverThomas M. Cover is Professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University...
(1990) - Andrew J. ViterbiAndrew ViterbiAndrew James Viterbi, Ph.D. is an Italian-American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc....
(1991) - Elwyn R. Berlekamp (1993)
- Aaron D. WynerAaron D. WynerDr. Aaron D. Wyner was an American information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory, particularly the Gaussian channel. He lived in South Orange, New Jersey.Wyner was born in the Bronx, New York...
(1994) - G. David Forney, Jr.David ForneyGeorge David "Dave" Forney, Jr. is an electrical engineer who has made contributions in telecommunication system theory, specifically in coding theory and information theory....
(1995) - Imre CsiszárImre CsiszárImre Csiszár is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theoryand probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annualaward given in the field of information theory....
(1996) - Jacob ZivJacob ZivJacob Ziv is an Israeli computer scientist who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms.-Biography:...
(1997) - Neil J. A. SloaneNeil SloaneNeil James Alexander Sloane is a British-U.S. mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing...
(1998) - Tadao KasamiTadao Kasamiwas a noted Japanese information theorist who made significant contributions to error correcting codes.Kasami was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied electrical engineering at Osaka University, where he received his B.E. degree in 1958, M.E. in 1960, and Ph.D. in 1963. He then joined the faculty,...
(1999) - Thomas KailathThomas KailathThomas Kailath is an Indian electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University...
(2000) - Jack Keil WolfJack Keil WolfJack Keil Wolf was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory.-Biography:Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1956 and his Ph.D...
(2001) - Toby BergerToby BergerDr. Toby Berger is a noted American information theorist.Berger was born in New York City, received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1962, and doctoral degree in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1968. From 1962-1968 he was also a senior scientist...
(2002) - Lloyd R. WelchLloyd R. WelchLloyd Richard Welch is a noted American information theorist, and co-inventor of the Baum–Welch algorithm.Welch received his B.S. in mathematics from the University of Illinois, 1951, and Ph.D. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, 1958, under advisor Frederic Bohnenblust...
(2003) - Robert J. McElieceRobert McElieceRobert J. McEliece is a mathematician and engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology best known for his work in information theory. He was the 2004 recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.Educated at Caltech...
(2004) - Richard BlahutRichard BlahutRichard Blahut, former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is best known for his work in information theory . He received his PhD Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972.Blahut taught at Cornell from 1973 to...
(2005) - Rudolf AhlswedeRudolf AhlswedeRudolf F. Ahlswede was a German mathematician. Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the topic "Contributions to the Shannon information theory in case of non-stationary channels"...
(2006) - Sergio VerduSergio VerduSergio Verdú is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he teaches and conducts research on Information Theory in the Information Sciences and Systems Group...
(2007) - Robert M. GrayRobert M. GrayRobert M. Gray is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and compression, particularly the development of vector quantization.- Awards :Gray...
(2008) - Jorma RissanenJorma RissanenJorma J. Rissanen is an information theorist, known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression, and the minimum description length principle....
(2009) - Te Sun HanTe Sun HanTe Sun Han is a Korean Japanese information theorist and winner of the 2010 Shannon Award. He has made significant contributions concerning the interference channel and information spectrum methods. In 1990, he was elected an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the theory of multiuser information...
(2010) - Shlomo ShamaiShlomo ShamaiProfessor Shlomo Shamai is a professor at the Department of Electrical engineering at the Technion − Israel Institute of Technology. Professor Shamai is an information theorist and winner of the 2011 Shannon Award....
(Shitz) (2011) - Abbas El GamalAbbas El GamalAbbas El Gamal is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, information theorist, and entrepreneur.He is the Hitachi North America Professor in the Stanford University School of Engineering. He has been named as the recipient of the 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award.-References:...
(2012)