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 (science), quantification, computer data storage, storage, and telecommunication, communication of information. The field was originally established by the works of Harry Nyquist a ...

. 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, who was also the first recipient.

Recipients

The following people have received the Claude E. Shannon Award: * 1972 – Claude E. Shannon * 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 (russian: Марк Семено́вич Пи́нскер; April 24, 1925 – December 23, 2003) or Mark Shlemovich Pinsker (russian: Марк Шлемо́вич Пи́нскер) was a noted Russian mathematician in the ...

* 1979 –

Jacob Wolfowitz Jacob Wolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist. He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President ...

* 1981 – W. Wesley Peterson * 1982 – Irving S. Reed * 1983 – Robert G. Gallager * 1985 – Solomon W. Golomb * 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 to ...

* 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 dev ...

* 1991 –

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

* 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.Contributors, ''IEEE Transactions on Information Theory'' 42, #3 (May 1996), p. 1048. DO10.1 ...

* 1994 – 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 ...

* 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 *, Jap ...

* 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, i ...

* 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 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 in ...

* 2003 –

Lloyd R. Welch Lloyd Richard Welch (born September 28, 1927) is an American information theorist and applied mathematician, and co-inventor of the Baum–Welch algorithm and the Berlekamp–Welch algorithm, also known as the Welch–Berlekamp algorithm. Welch r ...

* 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 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 the ...

* 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 Univ ...

* 2008 – Robert M. Gray * 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 in ...

* 2010 –

Te Sun Han Te Sun Han (born 1941, Kiryū) is a Korean Japanese information theorist and winner of the 2010 Shannon Award. He has made significant contributions concerning the interference channel and information spectrum methods.Te Sun Han, Information-Sp ...

* 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 a ...

(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 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 Mathemat ...

* 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 ...

* 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 Mathem ...

* 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 Massachuset ...

* 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 th ...

* 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 Alon Orlitsky is an information theorist and the Qualcomm Professor for Information Theory and its Applications at University of California, San Diego. He received a BSc in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering from Ben Gurion University in 1981, ...

* 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 ...

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External links

IEEE Information Theory Society page

Claude E. Shannon Award & recipients
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Recipients

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