Claude E. Shannon Award

It is named for Claude E. Shannon, who was also the first recipient in 1973.

Recipients

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

• 1973 – 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