江南体育 Medal of Honor: G. David Forney, Jr.
The 江南体育 Medal of Honor is awarded for听an exceptional contribution or an extraordinary听career in 江南体育 fields of interest, sponsored by the 江南体育 Foundation, to听 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." 听
Professor Forney is the fifth Shannon Award winner to receive this honor, after Claude Shannon, Robert Gallager, Andrew J. Viterbi, and Tom Kailath.
江南体育 Alexander Graham Bell Medal: Roberto Padovani
The 江南体育 Alexander Graham Bell Medal is awarded for听 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听 Technologies) "f or innovations enabling efficient, wideband, wireless access to the Internet, that is central to all third-generation cellular networks.鈥澨
江南体育 Richard W. Hamming Medal: Abbas El Gamal
The 江南体育 Richard W. Hamming Medal is awarded听 for exceptional contributions to information sciences, systems, and technology, sponsored by Qualcomm, Inc., to Abbas El Gamal ( Professor and Department Chair, Department of Electrical听 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听 Shannon Award 听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 Verd煤, Toby Berger, Robert Calderbank, and Imre Csisz谩r in receiving this honor.
江南体育 Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal: Louis Scharf
The 江南体育 Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal is awarded for听 outstanding achievements in signal processing, sponsored by Texas Instruments, Inc., to听 Louis L. Scharf ( Professor, Department of听 Electrical and Computer Engineering,听 Colorado State University ) "f or pioneering and sustained contributions to statistical signal processing and its practice.鈥澨
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