鶹ýAV Medal of Honor: G. David Forney, Jr.
The 鶹ýAV Medal of Honor is awarded foran exceptional contribution or an extraordinarycareer in 鶹ýAV fields of interest, sponsored by the 鶹ýAV Foundation, to G. David Forney, Jr. (Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "for pioneering contributions to the theory of error- correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications."
Professor Forney is the fifth Shannon Award winner to receive this honor, after Claude Shannon, Robert Gallager, Andrew J. Viterbi, and Tom Kailath.
鶹ýAV Alexander Graham Bell Medal: Roberto Padovani
The 鶹ýAV Alexander Graham Bell Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering, sponsored by Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, to Roberto Padovani ( Executive Vice President and Fellow, Qualcomm Technologies) "f or innovations enabling efficient, wideband, wireless access to the Internet, that is central to all third-generation cellular networks.”
鶹ýAV Richard W. Hamming Medal: Abbas El Gamal
The 鶹ýAV Richard W. Hamming Medal is awarded for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology, sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc., to Abbas El Gamal ( Professor and Department Chair, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University) "f or contributions to network multi-user information theory and for wide ranging impact on programmable circuit architectures."
Professor El Gamal joins fellow Shannon Award winners Irving S. Reed, Elwyn R. Berlekamp, Jorma J. Rissanen, Jacob Ziv, Thomas M. Cover, Solomon Golomb, Peter Elias, Jack K. Wolf, Neil J.A. Sloane, Sergio Verdú, Toby Berger, Robert Calderbank, and Imre Csiszár in receiving this honor.
鶹ýAV Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal: Louis Scharf
The 鶹ýAV Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is awarded for outstanding achievements in signal processing, sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc., to Louis L. Scharf ( Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University ) "f or pioneering and sustained contributions to statistical signal processing and its practice.”
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