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Awards & Honors

The IT Society confers several awards to recognize members and groups within the IT community for their excellence in research as well as their dedicated efforts on behalf of the Society.

Award Claude E. Shannon Award
The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IT Society has been institued 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. Transcripts of some of the lectures are available on-line.
Award Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. Each Wyner Award winner receives an ISIT or ITW participation fee waiver, a specially engraved plague, and a certificate. This award was initiated as the IT Society Distinguished Service Award in 2004, but was renamed to the Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award in 2005.
Award Information Theory Paper Award
The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society. The Award consists of an appropriately worded certificate(s) and an honorarium of $1,000 for a paper with a single author, or an honorarium of $2,000 equally split among multiple authors.
Award ComSoc & IT Joint Paper Award
The purpose of the ComSoc & Information Theory Joint Paper Award is to recognize outstanding papers published in any publication of the Communications Society or the Information Theory Society during the previous calendar year. The authors do not have to be a member of IEEE.
Award Chapter of the Year Award
The IEEE IT Society Chapter of the Year Award annually recognizes a chapter that has provided their membership with the best overall set of programs and activities. The prize includes $1,000, funded by the IT Society, to support local chapter activities. Additionally, the winning chapter may publish an article in IEEE Information Theory Newsletter. Any chapter who has had a successful year is eligible. Chapter Officers must submit 6 copies of an entry article nominating the chapter for the award. The article should be suitable for publishing in the newsletter and should contain: a summary of the chapter's exemplary service to its members in the areas of technical and society activities; and presentation of the chapter in the web pages of the IT Society.
Award Golden Jubilee Paper Awards
To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Information Theory, the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society instituted the IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation and the Golden Jubilee Paper Awards. The awards were given at the 1998 International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1998. The Golden Jubilee Paper Awards are given for outstanding articles published in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory whose impact on the development of the fields of interest to the Information Theory Society is now widely recognized. Papers that have received the Information Theory Society Paper Award are not eligible.
Award Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation
To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Information Theory, the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society instituted the IEEE Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation and the Golden Jubilee Paper Awards. The awards were given at the 1998 International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1998. The Golden Jubilee Awards are given to the authors of discoveries, advances and inventions that have had a profound impact in the technology of information transmission, processing and compression.
Folder IEEE Fellows
Since 1963, IEEE has acknowledged those individuals who have contributed to the advancement of engineering science and technology. The grade of Fellow is bestowed on the recipient who has had an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
Award ISIT Student Paper Award
 
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