Claude E. Shannon Award

Claude E. Shannon Award
Awarded for	To honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
Reward	The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.
First awarded	1974
Official website	Claude E. Shannon Award

The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was instituted to honor 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.^[1] It is the most prestigious prize in Information Theory, covering technical contributions at the intersection of mathematics, communication engineering, and theoretical computer science.

It is named for Claude E. Shannon, who was also the first recipient.

Recipients

The following people have received the Claude E. Shannon Award:^[2]

1972 – Claude E. Shannon 1974 – David S. Slepian 1976 – Robert M. Fano 1977 – Peter Elias 1978 – Mark Semenovich Pinsker 1979 – Jacob Wolfowitz 1981 – W. Wesley Peterson 1982 – Irving S. Reed 1983 – Robert G. Gallager 1985 – Solomon W. Golomb 1986 – William Lucas Root 1988 – James Massey 1990 – Thomas M. Cover

1991 – Andrew Viterbi 1993 – Elwyn Berlekamp 1994 – Aaron D. Wyner 1995 – George David Forney 1996 – Imre Csiszár 1997 – Jacob Ziv 1998 – Neil Sloane 1999 – Tadao Kasami 2000 – Thomas Kailath 2001 – Jack Keil Wolf 2002 – Toby Berger 2003 – Lloyd R. Welch 2004 – Robert McEliece

2005 – Richard Blahut 2006 – Rudolf Ahlswede 2007 – Sergio Verdú 2008 – Robert M. Gray 2009 – Jorma Rissanen 2010 – Te Sun Han 2011 – Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) 2012 – Abbas El Gamal[3] 2013 – Katalin Marton[4] 2014 – János Körner 2015 – Robert Calderbank 2016 – Alexander Holevo

References

1. http://www.isit2016.org/
2. "Claude E. Shannon Award Recipients". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
3. Andrew Myers (August 9, 2011). "El Gamal Wins IEEE’s Claude E. Shannon Award". The Dish (Stanford University). Retrieved August 13, 2011.
4. "2013 Claude E. Shannon Award". IEEE Information Theory Society. July 9, 2012. Retrieved July 9, 2012.

External links

• IEEE Information Theory Society page
• Claude E. Shannon Award & recipients