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Call for Nomination - Â鶹´«Ã½AV IT Claude E. Shannon Award
Nov 25, 2009

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society invites you to nominate candidates for the Claude E. Shannon Award.

The Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award is given annually for consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.Award winners are expected to deliver the Shannon Lecture at the annual Â鶹´«Ã½AV International Symposium on Information Theory held in the year of the award.

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NOMINATION PROCEDURE : Nominations and letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1 to the President of the Â鶹´«Ã½AV Information Theory Society. (In 2010 the President will be Prof. Frank Kschischang <[email protected]>.)
Please include:

Nominee :

  1. Full name
  2. Address, e-mail and telephone
  3. Professional affiliation
  4. Academic degrees (awarding institutions and dates)
  5. Employment history
  6. Principal publications (not more than ten).
  7. Principal honors and awards
  8. Optional . The nominee’s CV may be submitted as an addendum to the nomination.

Nominator:

  1. Full name
  2. Address, Email and telephone
  3. Optional . Endorser(s), names and addresses, e-mail addresses. (Letters of endorsement are not required. At most three may be submitted.)

Rationale:

Discussion of how the nominee has made consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory (not more than two pages).