Richard W. Hamming Medal
The Richard W. Hamming Medal is an award given annually by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) for exceptional achievements in information technology . The medal is named after the mathematician Richard W. Hamming .
Award winners
year | Award winners | honored achievement |
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1988 | Richard Hamming | Exceptional pioneering achievements in information technology, e.g. B. Hamming distance |
1989 | Irving Stoy Reed | Various services, including the Reed-Muller Code and the Reed-Solomon Code |
1990 | Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson | I.a. the Unix computer operating system and the C programming language |
1991 | Elwyn R. Berlekamp | Basic contributions to coding theory, u. a Berlekamp algorithm |
1992 | Lotfi A. Zadeh | Invention of fuzzy logic |
1993 | Jorma J. Rissanen | Contributions to coding theory, including arithmetic coding |
1994 | Gottfried Ungerböck | Trellis code modulation (TCM) for data transmission |
1995 | Jacob Ziv | Contributions to data compression, including the Lempel-Ziv-Welch algorithm |
1996 | Mark S. Pinsker | Significant contributions to information theory and coding theory |
1997 | Thomas M. Cover | Important contributions to information theory , statistics and pattern recognition |
1998 | David D. Clark | Significant contributions to the development of today's Internet architecture |
1999 | David A. Huffman | Contributions to coding theory, including the development of the Huffman coding |
2000 | Solomon W. Golomb | Contributions to coding theory, including Maximum Length Sequence |
2001 | Alexander G. Fraser | Pioneering services in the field of communications networks, including virtual connectivity |
2002 | Peter Elias | Pioneering achievements in information theory, including convolutional code |
2003 | Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux | Groundbreaking contributions to channel coding , including a the turbo codes |
2004 | Jack K. Wolf | Contributions to the theory and practice of information transfer and storage as well as Slepian-Wolf theory for correlated information sources |
2005 | Neil Sloane | Contributions to coding theory |
2006 | Vladimir I. Lewenstein | Contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes, including the Levenshtein distance |
2007 | Abraham Lempel | Pioneering achievements in data compression, especially the Lempel-Ziv algorithm |
2008 | Sergio Verdú | Contributions to information theory and the development of multi-user recognition |
2009 | Peter Franaszek | Pioneering contributions in the theory and practice of restricted channel coding |
2010 | Whitfield Diffie , Martin Hellman and Ralph Merkle | Invention of public key cryptography and its application in secure communication |
2011 | Toby Berger | Contributions to information theory, in particular data compression and its application |
2012 | Michael Luby and Amin Shokrollahi | Contributions to coding theory |
2013 | Arthur Robert Calderbank | Fundamental contributions to coding theory that influenced modems and wireless communications |
2014 | Thomas J. Richardson and Rüdiger Urbanke | Fundamental contributions to coding theory, iterative information processing and applications |
2015 | Imre Csiszár | Contributions to information theory, information-theoretical security and statistics |
2016 | Abbas el Gamal | For contributions to network multi-user information theory and for wide ranging impact on programmable circuit architectures. |
2017 | Shlomo Shamai | Fundamental contributions to information theory and wireless communication |
2018 | Erdal Arikan | Contributions to information and communication theory, especially the discovery of polar codes and techniques for polarization |
2019 | David Tse | For seminal contributions to wireless network information theory and wireless network systems. |
2020 | Cynthia Dwork | For foundational work in privacy, cryptography, and distributed computing, and for leadership in developing differential privacy. |
Web links
- Richard W. Hamming Medal at the IEEE (English)
- ↑ 2020 IEEE MEDALS AND RECOGNITIONS RECIPIENTS AND CITATIONS (PDF, 169 kB); accessed on December 4, 2019.