Claude Elwood Shannon
Claude Shannon
Shannon Memorial Lecture
To commemorate the achievements of Claude Elwood Shannon an endowed lectureship has been established at the University of California, San Diego.
Each year an outstanding information theorist is selected to present the Shannon Memorial Lecture on or about Shannon's birthday (April 30th).
| Speaker | Lecture | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Robert M. Gray | Shannon Source Coding, Ornstein Isomorphism and Random Process Models |
April 21, 2009 |
| Sergio Verdú | April 30, 2008 | |
| Giuseppe Caire | April 30, 2007 | |
| Alexander Vardy | Multivariate Interpolation Decoding: Closing the Gap Between Shannon and Hamming
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April 30, 2007 |
| Alon Orlitsky | April 30, 2007 | |
| Erik Ordentlich | April 30, 2007 | |
| Richard E. Blahut |
Demodulation Meets Signal Processing: Two-Dimensional Information Theory |
April 26, 2006 |
| Robert McEliece | April 29, 2005 | |
| Lloyd R. Welch | Hidden Markov Models and the Baum-Welch Algorithm
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April 30, 2004 |
| Toby Berger | Information Theory and Real Neural Nets | May 5, 2003 |
7th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture 2009
6th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture 2008
5th Annual Shannon Memorial Symposium 2007
4th Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture 2006
3rd Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture 2005
2nd Annual Shannon Memorial Lecture 2004
Inaugural Shannon Memorial Lecture 2003
Shannon Symposium and Dedication 2001
Shannon Fellowship
Professor Jack Keil Wolf, holder of the Stephen 0. Rice Chair in the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at UCSD has established a new endowment fund called the Shannon Graduate Fellowship Fund. The purpose of this endowed fellowship is to honor an outstanding graduate student at UCSD whose research is in the field of information theory. The naming of the fund is to commemorate the achievements of the late Claude E. Shannon, a Bell Labs mathematician who in 1948 originated the “information theory” on which the fundamental principles of digital telecommunications and information storage are based. The income from the endowment will be used to fund a graduate fellowship that well be awarded annually. The selection of the Shannon Fellow will be announced at the CMRR Shannon Memorial Lecture which is held annually on Claude Shannon’s birthday, April 30th.
Recipients:
Paolo Minero - April 2008
Biography
Biographical Information:
Essential Message: Claude Shannon and the Making of Information Theory
Tributes:
Obituraries:
Documentary:
Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age
Publications
A Register of His Papers in the Library of Congress
A Mathematical Theory of Communication - seminal paper
