AWARDS

Carl W. Baum and Venugopal V. Veeravalli  have been named as the 
recipients of the 1996 IEEE Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize Award.  
Their award winning paper, entitled "A Sequential Procedure 
for Multihypothesis Testing," appeared in the {\em IEEE Transactions 
on Information Theory}, Vol. 40, No. 6, November 1994, pp. 1994--2007.  
The Thompson Award is given each year for an outstanding paper 
by authors under 30 years of age published in the previous calendar 
year.  The winning paper is selected from all journals and all areas 
of specialization covered by the IEEE.  

100 Years of Wireless Communication

1996 INFORMATION THEORY WORKSHOP -- Dan-Carmel, Haifa,  June 9-13, 1996

VENUE: The 1996 Information Theory Workshop will be held at the luxurious 
Dan-Carmel hotel located on the famous Carmel mountain in the beautiful city 
of Haifa.  In this forum the 65th birthday of Prof. Jacob Ziv will be 
celebrated, and he will also be the honored plenary speaker.

The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Information Theory Society, the Neaman 
Institute for Advanced Studies, the Technion & EE Dept., Elbit, RAD 
Communications, the Institute of Advanced Studies in Mathematics, the Israel 
Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the Israel Ministry of Science and Art.

ORGANIZERS:  Neri Merhav (Technion), Shlomo Shamai (Technion), Moshe Sidi 
(Technion), Aaron D. Wyner (AT&T Bell Labs), Meir Feder (Tel Aviv Univ.)

TECHNICAL PROGRAM:  Nine half-day sessions will be held as well as an evening 
``Recent Results'' session and an honorary plenary address by J. Ziv.
Statistics & Info. Theory 	Coded-Modulation 		Cryptography
Network Information Theory	Comm. Techniques & Models	Source Coding
Convolutional & Block Codes	Detection & Estimation 		Shannon Theory

PLENARY ADDRESS: On the Individual Sequence Approach to Information Theory--J. Ziv.

COSTS:  IEEE advanced registration (includes social events and lunches)--$350. 
Student minimum rates (not covering social events and lunches)--$50. 

FURTHER INFORMATION:  Mrs. Pnina Sason, Technion - Div. for Continuing Education
and External Studies, Haifa 32000, Israel.  E-mail: sassonp@tx.technion.ac.il.
Tel: (972) 4--8294464, (972) 4--8225150, Fax: (972) 4--8294466.
WWW pointer for further information: http://www-ee.technion.ac.il./ITW96.html.