Richard W. Hamming Medal

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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

Winner of the Richard W. Hamming Medal
year Award winners honored achievement
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

  1. ↑ 2020 IEEE MEDALS AND RECOGNITIONS RECIPIENTS AND CITATIONS (PDF, 169 kB); accessed on December 4, 2019.