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.

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

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

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