IEEE Information Theory Society

The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITS ) is a company within the IEEE, which deals with processing, transmission and storage of information (information theory).

It was founded in 1951 as the IRE Professional Group in Information Theory in Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE ), which merged in 1963 with the IEEE. Then they were called IEEE Professional Technical Group on Information Theory and IEEE Information Theory Group in 1964. Its current name, they have since 1989.

Publish the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and a newsletter and awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award.

1998 was presented for the 50th anniversary of the founding of the information theory by Claude E. Shannon of the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation.

Winners of the Golden Jubilee Award 1998

Prize winners (each with an official eulogy ):

  • Norman Abramson for the invention of the first random access communication protocol
  • Elwyn Berlekamp for the invention of an efficiently computable algebraic decoding algorithm.
  • Claude Berrou, Alain Glavieux, Punya Thitimajshima for the invention of turbo codes.
  • Ingrid Daubechies for the invention wavelet-based signal processing methods
  • Whitfield Diffie, Martin Hellman, for the invention of public-key cryptography
  • Peter Elias in the invention of convolutional codes
  • G. David Forney for the invention of concatenated codes and generalized minimum distance decoding algorithms
  • Robert M. Gray for the invention and development of workout mode vector
  • David A. Huffman for the invention of Huffman coding
  • Kees A. Schouhamer Immink for the invention of constrained codes for commercial Aunahmesysteme
  • Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv for the Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm
  • Robert W. Lucky for the invention of adaptive equalizer methods
  • Dwight O. North for the invention of the matched filter
  • Irving S. Reed as co- inventor of the Reed -Solomon code
  • Jorma Rissanen for the invention of arithmetic coding
  • Gottfried Ungerboeck for the invention of trellis code modulation
  • Andrew J. Viterbi for the invention of the Viterbi algorithm
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