The Claude E. Shannon Award is the highest honor from the 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society. The award has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory.
The Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor an individual who has shown outstanding leadership in, and provided long-standing, exceptional service to, the Information Theory community.
The James L. Massey Research & Teaching Award for Young Scholars recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by young scholars in the Information Theory community.
The 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award, established in 2013, is awarded annually to the author of an outstanding doctoral dissertation contributing to the mathematical foundations of any of the information sciences within the purview of the Society.
The purpose of the Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in and encourage contributions to fields of interest of the Society.
The purpose of the Communications Society & Information Theory Paper Award is to recognize the authors of outstanding papers appearing in any publication of the 鶹ýAV Communications Society or the 鶹ýAV Information Theory Society in the previous three calendar years.
The 鶹ýAV Jack Keil Wolf ISIT Student Paper Award is given to up to three outstanding papers for which a student is the principal author and presenter. The award is based on the paper’s technical contribution as well as the quality of its presentation. The prize was awarded to three papers this year:
