The Claude E. Shannon Award of the

IEEE Information Theory Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is a 501(c)(3) professional association for electronic engineering and electrical engineering (and associated disciplines) with its corporate office in New York City and its operation ...

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

information theory Information theory is the scientific study of the quantification, storage, and communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist and Ralph Hartley, in the 1920s, and 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 named for

Claude E. Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001) was an American mathematician, electrical engineer, and cryptographer known as a "father of information theory". As a 21-year-old master's degree student at the Massachusetts Institu ...

, who was also the first recipient.

Recipients

The following people have received the Claude E. Shannon Award: * 1972 –

* 1974 – David S. Slepian * 1976 – Robert M. Fano * 1977 – Peter Elias * 1978 – Mark Semenovich Pinsker * 1979 – Jacob Wolfowitz * 1981 –

W. Wesley Peterson William Wesley Peterson (April 22, 1924 – May 6, 2009) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for designing the cyclic redundancy check (CRC), – The original paper on CRCs for which research he was awarded ...

* 1982 –

Irving S. Reed Irving Stoy Reed (November 12, 1923 – September 11, 2012) was an American mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collabora ...

* 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 contributio ...

* 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. Most notably, he inve ...

* 1986 –

William Lucas Root William Lucas Root (1919 – April 22, 2007) was a noted American information theorist. As an early pioneer in the field, Root was instrumental in providing a mathematical basis for statistical communication theory. Root was born in Iowa, recei ...

* 1988 – James Massey * 1990 –

Thomas M. Cover Thomas M. Cover �koʊvər(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 ...

* 1991 – Andrew Viterbi * 1993 – Elwyn Berlekamp * 1994 –

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, ...

* 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 Februa ...

* 1997 –

Jacob Ziv Jacob Ziv ( he, יעקב זיו; born 1931) is an Israeli electrical engineer who, along with Abraham Lempel, developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms. Biography Ziv was born in Tiberias, British mandate Palestine, on 27 No ...

* 1998 –

Neil Sloane __NOTOC__ Neil James Alexander Sloane (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 creator ...

* 1999 –

Tadao Kasami Tadao (written: 忠雄, 忠夫, 忠男, 忠生, 忠郎 or 理男) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese architect *, Japanese ''daimyō'' * Tadao Baba (born 1944), Japanese motorcycle engineer *, Ja ...

* 2000 –

Thomas Kailath Thomas Kailath (born June 7, 1935) is an electrical engineer, information theorist, control engineer, entrepreneur and the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Professor Kailath has authored several books ...

* 2001 – Jack Keil Wolf * 2002 –

Toby Berger Toby Berger (September 4, 1940 – May 25, 2022) was an American information theorist. Early life and education Berger was born in New York City, to a Jewish family. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Yale University i ...

* 2003 – Lloyd R. Welch * 2004 – Robert McEliece * 2005 –

Richard Blahut Richard Blahut''Richard E. Blahut'' was elected in 1990
as a membe ...

* 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 th ...

* 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 Uni ...

* 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 com ...

* 2009 – Jorma Rissanen * 2010 – Te Sun Han * 2011 –

Shlomo Shamai Professor Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) (Hebrew: שלמה שמאי (שיץ) ‏) is a distinguished professor at the Department of Electrical engineering at the Technion − Israel Institute of Technology. Professor Shamai is an information theorist ...

(Shitz) * 2012 –

Abbas El Gamal Abbas El Gamal (born May 30, 1950) is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to network information theory, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and CMOS imaging sensors a ...

* 2013 – Katalin Marton * 2014 – János Körner * 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 ...

* 2016 –

Alexander Holevo Alexander Semenovich Holevo(russian: Алекса́ндр Семéнович Хóлево, also spelled as Kholevo and Cholewo) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician, one of the pioneers of quantum information science. Biography Steklov Mathe ...

* 2017 – David Tse * 2018 – Gottfried Ungerboeck * 2019 –

Erdal Arıkan Erdal Arıkan is a Turkish professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He is known for his implementation of polar coding. Career Academic background Arıkan briefly served as a tenure- ...

* 2020 – Charles Bennett * 2021 – Alon Orlitsky * 2022 – Raymond W. Yeung * 2023 –

Rüdiger Urbanke Rüdiger Leo Urbanke (born 1966) is an Austrian computer scientist and professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Life Urbanke studied at the Technical University of Vienna with the diploma as an electrical engineer in ...

References

External links

IEEE Information Theory Society page

Claude E. Shannon Award & recipients
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Recipients

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References

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