The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was institued to honour 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. Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001) has been called the father of information theory, and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ... The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers or IEEE (pronounced as eye-triple-ee) is an international non-profit, professional organization incorporated in the State of New York, United States. ... // Introduction Information theory is the mathematical theory of data communication and storage generally considered to have been founded in 1948 by Claude E. Shannon. ...

Past Winners

 * Claude E. Shannon (1972) * David S. Slepian (1974) * Robert M. Fano (1976) * Peter Elias (1977) * Mark S. Pinsker (1978) * J. 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 Csiszßr (1996) * Jacob Ziv (1997) * Neil J. A. Sloane (1998) * Tadao Kasami (1999) * Thomas Kailath (2000) * Jack Wolf (2001) * Toby Berger (2002) * Lloyd R. Welch (2003) * Robert J. McEliece (2004) * Richard Blahut (2005) * Rudolf Ahlswede (2006)