The winner of the Information Theory Society Logo Contest
is Dr. Giorgio Taricco.
There were nineteen entries. The winning logo was announced
at the banquet of the International Symposium on Information
Theory on August 20, 1998 by IT Society President, Thomas
Ericson. As the designer of the winning entry, Giorgio
will receive $500.
Giorgio studied Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, Italy,
where he received his Dr. Engr. degree (summa cum laude) in 1985.
From 1985 to 1987 he was in CSELT, in Torino, where he studied digital
transmission systems with channel coding for error control.
Since 1991 he has been on the faculty staff at Politecnico di Torino,
Dipartimento di Elettronica, where he gives courses in analog and
digital communications. His research interests cover the areas of
error-control coding, digital communications and information theory with
applications to mobile radio systems.
We would like to thank all of the designers who submitted
entries to the contest.