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.

The first Shannon Lecturer was Claude Shannon himself followed by

• David S. Slepian (1974)
• Robert M. Fano (1976)
• Peter Elias (1977)
• Mark S. Pinsker (1978)
• J. Wolfowitz (1979)
• W. Wesley Peterson (1981)
• Irving S. Reed (1982)
• Robert Gallager (1983)
• Solomon W. Golomb (1985)
• William L. Root (1986)
• James L. Massey (1988)
• Thomas M. Cover (1990)
• Andrew J. Viterbi (1991)
• Elwyn R. Berlekamp (1993) Transcript (postscript)
• Aaron D. Wyner (1994) Transcript (postscript)
• G. David Forney, Jr.(1995) Transcript (postscript) (pdf)
• Imre Csiszar (1996) Transcript (pdf)
• Jacob Ziv (1997) Transcipt (pdf)
• Neil J. A. Sloane (1998) Transcript (pdf)
• Tadao Kasami (1999)
• Thomas Kailath (2000)
• Jack Wolf (2001)
• Toby Berger (2002)
• Lloyd R. Welch (2003)
• Robert J. McEliece (2004)
• Richard Blahut (2005)
• Rudolf Ahlswede (2006)
• Sergio Verdú (2007) Slides PDF
• Robert Gray (2008)

 

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