IEEE Information Theory Society
The IEEE Information Theory Society (ITS) is a society within the IEEE that deals with the processing, transmission and storage of information ( information theory ).
It was founded in 1951 as the IRE Professional Group in Information Theory within the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE), which merged with the IEEE in 1963. They were then called the IEEE Professional Technical Group on Information Theory and in 1964 IEEE Information Theory Group. They have had their current name since 1989.
They publish the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and a newsletter and present the Claude E. Shannon Award .
In 1998 the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation was presented on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of information theory by Claude E. Shannon .
Winner of the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award
The winners were (each with an official laudation):
- Norman Abramson for inventing the first random access communication protocol
- Elwyn Berlekamp for the invention of an efficiently computable algebraic decoding algorithm.
- Claude Berrou , Alain Glavieux , Punya Thitimajshima for the invention of the turbo codes .
- Ingrid Daubechies for the invention of wavelet- based methods of signal processing
- Whitfield Diffie , Martin Hellman , for inventing public key cryptography
- Peter Elias for inventing convolutional codes
- G. David Forney for the invention of concatenated codes and generalized minimum distance decoding algorithms
- Robert M. Gray for the invention and development of training mode vector quantization
- David A. Huffman for inventing Huffman coding
- Kees A. Schouhamer Immink for the invention of constrained codes for commercial recording systems
- Abraham Lempel , Jacob Ziv for the Lempel-Ziv algorithm for data compression
- Robert W. Lucky for inventing the Adaptive Equalizer
- Dwight O. North for the invention of the matched filter ( matched filter )
- Irving S. Reed as co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon Code
- Jorma Rissanen for inventing arithmetic coding
- Gottfried Ungerboeck for inventing trellis code modulation
- Andrew J. Viterbi for inventing the Viterbi algorithm