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Claude Elwood Shannon

Claude Shannon

Shannon Memorial Lecture
Shannon Fellowship
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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
Thomas Cover	Shannon and the St. Petersburg Paradox More Information	September 19, 2011
Andrew Viterbi	Markov, Wiener and Shannon: A Progression More Information	April 30, 2010
Robert M. Gray	Shannon Source Coding, Ornstein Isomorphism and Random Process Models More Information	April 21, 2009
Sergio Verdú	Information Theory and Minimum Mean-Square Estimation More Information	April 30, 2008
Giuseppe Caire	MIMO Downlink: Theory, Practice and Some Results	April 30, 2007
Alexander Vardy	Multivariate Interpolation Decoding: Closing the Gap Between Shannon and Hamming	April 30, 2007
Alon Orlitsky	Information Theory and Probability Estimation	April 30, 2007
Erik Ordentlich	Coding for 2D Constraints	April 30, 2007
Richard E. Blahut	Demodulation Meets Signal Processing: Two-Dimensional Information Theory	April 26, 2006
Robert McEliece	Are there Turbo-Codes on Mars?	April 29, 2005
Lloyd R. Welch	Hidden Markov Models and the Baum-Welch Algorithm	April 30, 2004
Toby Berger	Information Theory and Real Neural Nets	May 5, 2003
	Shannon Symposium and Dedication	October 15-16, 2001

Shannon Fellowship

left to right, Dr. Andrew Viterbi, Prof. Jack Wolf, and Ehsan Ardestanizadeh

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.

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