Claude E. Shannon Award

The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was 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.

Past winners

• Claude E. Shannon (1972)
• David S. Slepian (1974)
• Robert M. Fano (1976)
• Peter Elias (1977)
• Mark S. Pinsker (1978)
• Jacob Wolfowitz (1979)
• W. Wesley Peterson (1981)
• Irving S. Reed (1982)
• Robert G. 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)
• Aaron D. Wyner (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 (2001)
• Toby Berger (2002)
• Lloyd R. Welch (2003)
• Robert J. McEliece (2004)
• Richard Blahut (2005)
• Rudolf Ahlswede (2006)
• Sergio Verdu (2007)
• Robert M. Gray (2008)
• Jorma Rissanen (2009)

External links

• IEEE Information Theory Society page