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The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IT Society has been 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. Transcripts of some of the lectures are available online.
Starting with the 2009 Award, the Shannon Award Committee has issued an open call for nominations. All nomination should be submitted by March 1 using the online form available here. -- DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 6TH, 2020.
The Committee retains the responsibility of assuring that a suitable slate of candidates is nominated, and may itself generate nominations.
The first Shannon Lecturer was Claude Shannon himself followed by:
- David S. Slepian, (1923-2007) (1974)
- Robert M. Fano, (1917-2016) (1976)
- Peter Elias, (1923-2001) (1977)
- Mark S. Pinsker (1978)
- Jacob Wolfowitz, (1910-1981) (1979)
- William Wesley Peterson, (1924-2009) (1981)
- Irving S. Reed, (1923-2012) (1982)
- Robert G. Gallager (1983)
- Solomon Golomb, (1932-2016) (1985)
- William L. Root, (1919-2007) (1986)
- James Massey, (1934-2013) (1988)
- Thomas M. Cover, (1938-2012) (1990)
- Andrew J. Viterbi (1991)
- Elwyn Berlekamp (1993)
- Aaron D. Wyner, (1939-1997) (1994)
- G. David Forney, Jr. (1995)
- Imre Csiszár (1996)
- Jacob Ziv (1997)
- Neil J.A. Sloane (1998)
- Tadao Kasami (1999)
- Thomas Kailath (2000)
- Jack Keil Wolf, (1935-2011) (2001)
- Toby Berger (2002)
- Lloyd R. Welch (2003)
- Robert J. McEliece (2004)
- Richard Blahut (2005)
- Rudolf Ahlswede, (1938-2010) (2006)
- Sergio Verdú (2007)
- Robert M. Gray (2008)
- Jorma Rissanen (2009)
- Te Sun Han (2010)
- Shlomo Shamai, (Shitz) (2011)
- Abbas El Gamal (2012)
- Katalin Marton (2013)
- János Körner (2014)
- Robert Calderbank (2015)
- Alexander S. Holevo (2016)
- David Tse (2017)
- Gottfried Ungerboeck (2018)
- Erdal Arıkan (2019)
- Charles Bennett (2020)
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COVID-19 Updates
Read important changes and updates to the 2020 activities of the IEEE Information Theory Society due to the COVID-19 pandemic at:
- Latest News
- COVID-19 Updates as of March 26, 2020
- Nomination Deadline Extended for Shannon, Wyner, Massey Awards
- COVID-19 Updates as of March 22, 2020
Upcoming Events
Postponed: 2020 European School of Information Theory
24-29 May 2020
Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC) 2020
17-19 Jun 2020
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Boston, MA, USA
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)
21-26 Jun 2020
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Los Angeles, CA, USA.