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To commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Information Theory, the Board of Governors of the ½­ÄÏÌåÓý Information Theory Society instituted the ½­ÄÏÌåÓý Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation and the Golden Jubilee Paper Awards. The awards were given at the 1998 International Symposium on Information Theory, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 1998. The Golden Jubilee Awards are given to the authors of discoveries, advances and inventions that have had a profound impact in the technology of information transmission, processing and compression. The recipients of the 1998 ½­ÄÏÌåÓý Information Theory Society Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation are:

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1. Norman Abramson:ÌýFor the invention of the first random-access communication protocol.
2. Elwyn Berlekamp:ÌýFor the invention of a computationally efficient algebraic decoding algorithm.
3. Claude Berrou,ÌýAlain GlavieuxÌýandÌýPunya Thitimajshima:ÌýFor the invention of turbo codes.
4. Ingrid Daubechies:ÌýFor the invention of wavelet-based methods for signal processing.
5. Whitfield DiffieÌýandÌýMartin Hellman:ÌýFor the invention of public-key cryptography.
6. Peter Elias:ÌýFor the invention of convolutional codes.
7. G. David Forney, Jr:ÌýFor the invention of concatenated codes and a generalized minimum-distance decoding algorithm.
8. Robert M. Gray:ÌýFor the invention and development of training mode vector quantization.
9. David Huffman:ÌýFor the invention of the Huffman minimum-length lossless data-compression code.
10. Kees A. Schouhamer Immink:ÌýFor the invention of constrained codes for commercial recording systems.
11. Abraham LempelÌýandÌýJacob Ziv:ÌýFor the invention of the Lempel-Ziv universal data compression algorithm.
12. Robert W. Lucky:ÌýFor the invention of pioneering adaptive equalization methods.
13. Dwight O. North:ÌýFor the invention of the matched filter.
14. Irving S. Reed:ÌýFor the co-invention of the Reed-Solomon error correction codes.
15. Jorma Rissanen:ÌýFor the invention of arithmetic coding.
16. Gottfried Ungerboeck:ÌýFor the invention of trellis coded modulation.
17. Andrew J. Viterbi:ÌýFor the invention of the Viterbi algorithm.

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