IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients
2008 - SERGIO VERDU
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA
“For fundamental contributions to information theory and the development of multiuser detection.”
2007 - ABRAHAM LEMPEL
Director of the HP Labs Advanced Studies Program and Director of HP Labs Israel
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Haifa, Israel
“For pioneering work in data compression especially the Lempel-Ziv algorithm.”
2006 - VLADIMIR I. LEVENSHTEIN
Leading Scientific Researcher
Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics
Moscow, Russia
“For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and information theory, including the Levenshtein distance.”
2005 - NEIL J.A. SLOANE
Technology Leader, AT&T; Labs
Florham Park, NJ, USA
"For contributions to coding theory and its applications to communications, computer science, mathematics and statistics."
2004 - JACK K. WOLF
Stephen O. Rice Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Endowed Chair, Center for Magnetic Recording Research, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
"For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of information transmission and storage."
2003 - co-recipients
CLAUDE BERROU
Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne
Brest, France
and
ALAIN GLAVIEUX
Professor, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne
Brest, France
"For the invention of turbo codes, which have revolutionized digital communications."
2002 - PETER ELIAS (deceased)
Professor Emeritus and Senior Lecturer of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, M.I.T.,
Cambridge, MA, USA
'For fundamental and pioneering contributions to information theory and its applications.'
2001 - A. G. FRASER
AT&T; Laboratories - Murray Hill, NJ, USA
'For pioneering contributions to the architecture of communication networks through the development of virtual circuit switching technology.'
2000 - SOLOMON W. GOLOMB
University of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA, USA
'For fundamental contributions to the theory of shift register sequences and their applications in digital communications.'
1999 - DAVID A. HUFFMAN
Professor Emeritus at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, CA, USA
'For design procedures of minimum redundancy (Huffman) codes and asynchronous sequential circuits, and contributions to analysis of visual imagery.'
1998 - DAVID D. CLARK
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA
'For leadership and major contributions to the architecture of the Internet as a universal information medium.'
1997 - THOMAS M. COVER
Stanford University - Stanford, CA, USA
'For fundamental contributions to information and communication theory, statistics and pattern recognition.'
1996 - MARK S. PINSKER
Inst. for Info. Transmission Problems (IITP)
Russian Academy of Sciences - Moscow, Russia
'For outstanding contributions to information theory, statistical estimation and coding theory.'
1995 - JACOB ZIV
Technion-Israel Inst. of Tech.
Haifa, Israel
'For contributions to information theory, and the theory and practice of data compression.'
1994 - GOTTFRIED UNGERBOECK
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
Ruschlikon, Switzerland
'For the development and application of trellis modulation to digital communications.'
1993 - JORMA J. RISSANEN
IBM Corporation - San Jose, CA, USA
'For fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical inference, control theory, and the theory of complexity.'
1992 - LOTFI A. ZADEH
University of California - Berkeley, CA, USA
'For seminal contributions to information science and systems, including the conceptualization of fuzzy sets.'
1991 - ELWYN R. BERLEKAMP
AXCOM, Inc. - Berkeley, CA, USA
'For profound contributions to the theory and application of error-correcting codes.'
1990 - DENNIS M. RITCHIE
Bell Labs.
and
KENNETH L. THOMPSON
Bell Labs. - Murray Hill, NJ, USA
'For the origination of the UNIX operating system and the C programming language.'
1989 - IRVING S. REED
Univ. of Southern California - Los Angeles, CA, USA
'For contributions to multiple error-correcting codes, digital computer design, and automatic detection and processing of signals in noise.'
1988 - RICHARD W. HAMMING
U.S. Naval Postgrad. School - Monterey, CA, USA
