Claude E. Shannon Award

The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society was created to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. Each Shannon Award winner is expected to present a Shannon Lecture at the following IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. It is a prestigious prize in information theory, covering technical contributions at the intersection of mathematics, communication engineering, and theoretical computer science.

It is named for Claude E. Shannon, who was also the first recipient.

Recipients
The following people have received the Claude E. Shannon Award:


 * 1972 – Claude E. Shannon
 * 1974 – David S. Slepian
 * 1976 – Robert M. Fano
 * 1977 – Peter Elias
 * 1978 – Mark Semenovich Pinsker
 * 1979 – Jacob Wolfowitz
 * 1981 – W. Wesley Peterson
 * 1982 – Irving S. Reed
 * 1983 – Robert G. Gallager
 * 1985 – Solomon W. Golomb
 * 1986 – William Lucas Root
 * 1988 – James Massey
 * 1990 – Thomas M. Cover
 * 1991 – Andrew Viterbi
 * 1993 – Elwyn Berlekamp
 * 1994 – Aaron D. Wyner
 * 1995 – George David Forney
 * 1996 – Imre Csiszár
 * 1997 – Jacob Ziv
 * 1998 – Neil Sloane
 * 1999 – Tadao Kasami
 * 2000 – Thomas Kailath
 * 2001 – Jack Keil Wolf
 * 2002 – Toby Berger
 * 2003 – Lloyd R. Welch
 * 2004 – Robert McEliece
 * 2005 – Richard Blahut
 * 2006 – Rudolf Ahlswede
 * 2007 – Sergio Verdú
 * 2008 – Robert M. Gray
 * 2009 – Jorma Rissanen
 * 2010 – Te Sun Han
 * 2011 – Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
 * 2012 – Abbas El Gamal
 * 2013 – Katalin Marton
 * 2014 – János Körner
 * 2015 – Robert Calderbank
 * 2016 – Alexander Holevo
 * 2017 – David Tse
 * 2018 – Gottfried Ungerboeck
 * 2019 – Erdal Arıkan
 * 2020 – Charles Bennett
 * 2021 – Alon Orlitsky
 * 2022 – Raymond W. Yeung
 * 2023 – Rüdiger Urbanke
 * 2024 – Andrew Barron
 * 2025 – Peter Shor