The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created 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. 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, who was also the first recipient in 1973.
Recipients The following people have received the Claude E. Shannon Award:
1973 – Claude E. Shannon 1974 – David S. Slepian 1976 – Robert M. Fano 1977 – Peter Elias 1978 – Mark Semenovich Pinsker 1979 – Jacob Wolfowitz 1981 – W. Wesley Peterson 1982 – Irving S. Reed 1983 – Robert G. Gallager 1985 – Solomon W. Golomb 1986 – William Lucas Root 1988 – James Massey 1990 – Thomas M. Cover 1991 – Andrew Viterbi 1993 – Elwyn Berlekamp 1994 – Aaron D. Wyner 1995 – George David Forney 1996 – Imre Csiszár 1997 – Jacob Ziv 1998 – Neil Sloane 1999 – Tadao Kasami 2000 – Thomas Kailath 2001 – Jack Keil Wolf 2002 – Toby Berger 2003 – Lloyd R. Welch 2004 – Robert McEliece 2005 – Richard Blahut 2006 – Rudolf Ahlswede 2007 – Sergio Verdú 2008 – Robert M. Gray 2009 – Jorma Rissanen 2010 – Te Sun Han 2011 – Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) 2012 – Abbas El Gamal 2013 – Katalin Marton 2014 – János Körner 2015 – Robert Calderbank 2016 – Alexander Holevo 2017 – David Tse 2018 – Gottfried Ungerboeck 2019 – Erdal Arıkan 2020 – Charles Bennett 2021 – Alon Orlitsky 2022 – Raymond W. Yeung 2023 – Rüdiger Urbanke 2024 – Andrew Barron 2025 – Peter Shor 2026 – Frans Willems 2027 – Andrea Goldsmith
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links IEEE Information Theory Society page Claude E. Shannon Award & recipients