The Claude E. Shannon Award of the

IEEE Information Theory Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of

information theory Information theory is the mathematical study of the quantification (science), quantification, Data storage, storage, and telecommunications, communication of information. The field was established and formalized by Claude Shannon in the 1940s, ...

. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. It is a prestigious prize in information theory, covering technical contributions at the intersection of mathematics, communication engineering, and theoretical computer science. It is the highest honor given by the IEEE Information Theory Society and is also regarded as the highest award in the entire field of information theory. It is named for

Claude E. Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist, cryptographer and inventor known as the "father of information theory" and the man who laid the foundations of th ...

, who was also the first recipient in 1973.

Recipients

The following people have received the Claude E. Shannon Award: * 1973 –

* 1974 – David S. Slepian * 1976 –

Robert M. Fano Roberto Mario "Robert" Fano (11 November 1917 – 13 July 2016) was an Italian-American computer scientist and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became a student and working ...

* 1977 –

Peter Elias Peter Elias (November 23, 1923 – December 7, 2001) was a pioneer in the field of information theory. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991. In 1955, Elias introdu ...

* 1978 –

Mark Semenovich Pinsker Mark Semenovich Pinsker (; April 24, 1925 – December 23, 2003) or Mark Shlemovich Pinsker () was a noted Russian mathematician in the fields of information theory, probability theory, coding theory, ergodic theory, mathematical statistics, a ...

* 1979 – Jacob Wolfowitz * 1981 – W. Wesley Peterson * 1982 – Irving S. Reed * 1983 –

Robert G. Gallager Robert Gray Gallager (born May 29, 1931) is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and communications networks. Gallager was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1979 for contributi ...

* 1985 –

Solomon W. Golomb Solomon Wolf Golomb ( ; May 30, 1932 – May 1, 2016) was an American mathematician, engineer, and professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California, best known for his works on mathematical games. He most notably inven ...

* 1986 – William Lucas Root * 1988 –

James Massey James Lee Massey (February 11, 1934 – June 16, 2013) was an American information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm t ...

* 1990 –

Thomas M. Cover Thomas M. Cover (; August 7, 1938 – March 26, 2012) was an American information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing ...

* 1991 –

Andrew Viterbi Andrew James Viterbi (born Andrea Giacomo Viterbi, March 9, 1935) is an electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at th ...

* 1993 –

Elwyn Berlekamp Elwyn Ralph Berlekamp (September 6, 1940 – April 9, 2019) was a professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.Aaron D. Wyner Aaron D. Wyner (March 17, 1939 – September 29, 1997) was an American information theorist noted for his contributions in coding theory, particularly the Gaussian channel. He lived in South Orange, New Jersey.Burkhart, Ford"Aaron D. Wyner, 58 ...

* 1995 – George David Forney * 1996 –

Imre Csiszár Imre Csiszár () is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory and probability theory. In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award, the highest annual award given in the field of information theory. He was born on 7 Feb ...

* 1997 –

Jacob Ziv Jacob Ziv (; 27 November 1931 – 25 March 2023) was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai ...

* 1998 –

Neil Sloane __NOTOC__ Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the cre ...

* 1999 –

Tadao Kasami was a Japanese information theorist who made significant contributions to error correcting codes. He was the earliest to publish the key ideas for the CYK algorithm, separately discovered by Daniel Younger (1967) and John Cocke (1970). Kasami ...

* 2000 –

Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an India-born American electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering emeritus at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has autho ...

* 2001 –

Jack Keil Wolf Jack Keil Wolf (March 14, 1935 – May 12, 2011) was an American researcher in information theory and coding theory. Biography Wolf was born in 1935 in Newark, New Jersey, and graduated from Weequahic High School in 1952. He received his under ...

* 2002 – Toby Berger * 2003 – Lloyd R. Welch * 2004 –

Robert McEliece Robert J. McEliece (May 21, 1942 – May 8, 2019) was the Allen E. Puckett Professor and a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) best known for his work in error-correcting coding and information the ...

* 2005 –

Richard Blahut Richard Ednard Blahut''Richard E. Blahut'' was elected in 1990
a ...

* 2006 –

Rudolf Ahlswede Rudolf F. Ahlswede (15 September 1938 – 18 December 2010) was a German mathematician. Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the t ...

* 2007 –

Sergio Verdú Sergio Verdú (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) is a former professor of electrical engineering and specialist in information theory. Until September 22, 2018, he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton Univer ...

* 2008 –

Robert M. Gray Robert M. Gray (born November 1, 1943) is an American information theorist, and the Alcatel-Lucent Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He is best known for his contributions to quantization and co ...

* 2009 –

Jorma Rissanen Jorma Johannes Rissanen (October 20, 1932 – May 9, 2020) was an information theorist, known for originating the minimum description length (MDL) principle and practical approaches to arithmetic coding for lossless data compression. His work i ...

* 2010 –

Te Sun Han Te Sun Han (born 1941, Kiryū) is a Korean Japanese information theorist and winner of the 2010 Shannon Award. He is a Professor emeritus of The University of Electro-Communications. He has made significant contributions concerning the interfere ...

* 2011 – Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) * 2012 – Abbas El Gamal * 2013 –

Katalin Marton Katalin Marton (9 December 1941 – 13 December 2019) was a Hungarian mathematician, born in Budapest. Education and career Marton obtained her PhD from Eötvös Loránd University in 1965 and worked at the Department of Numerical Mathemati ...

* 2014 –

János Körner János Körner is a Hungarian mathematician who works on information theory and combinatorics. Körner studied Mathematics at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest with a degree in 1970 and was then at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathem ...

* 2015 –

Robert Calderbank Robert Calderbank (born 28 December 1954) is a professor of computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc f ...

* 2016 –

Alexander Holevo Alexander Semenovich Holevo (, also spelled as Kholevo and Cholewo) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, one of the pioneers of quantum information science. Biography Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, since 1969. He graduated from Mosc ...

* 2017 –

David Tse David Tse () is the Thomas Kailath and Guanghan Xu Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. Education Tse earned a B.S. in systems design engineering from University of Waterloo in 1989, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the Massach ...

* 2018 –

Gottfried Ungerboeck Gottfried Ungerboeck (born 15 March 1940, Vienna) is an Austrian communications engineer. Ungerboeck received an electrical engineering degree (with emphasis on telecommunications) from Vienna University of Technology in 1964, and a Ph.D. from t ...

* 2019 – Erdal Arıkan * 2020 – Charles Bennett * 2021 –

Alon Orlitsky Alon Orlitsky (; born July 25, 1958) is an Israeli-American information theorist and the Qualcomm Professor for Information Theory and its Applications at University of California, San Diego. Education and career Orlitsky received a BSc in Mat ...

* 2022 – Raymond W. Yeung * 2023 –

Rüdiger Urbanke Rüdiger Leo Urbanke (born 1966) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Life Urbanke studied at the Technical University of Vienna with the diploma as an electrical engineer in 1988 and ...

* 2024 – Andrew Barron * 2025 –

Peter Shor Peter Williston Shor (born August 14, 1959) is an American theoretical computer scientist known for his work on quantum computation, in particular for devising Shor's algorithm, a quantum algorithm for factoring exponentially faster than the ...

References

External links

IEEE Information Theory Society page

Claude E. Shannon Award & recipients
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Recipients

See also

References

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