Prof. Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) won the prestigious 2011 Claude E. Shannon Award
Professor Shlomo Shamai (Shitz) was selected as the recipient of the 2011 Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon Award.
Professor Shamai received the award at the ISIT2011 which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 31-August 5, 2011.
The Claude E. Shannon Award of the IT Society has been instituted to honor consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory. The award is given since 1974.
The Electrical Engineering Department at the Technion has three recipients of this prestigious award:
Distinguished Visiting Professor A. Viterbi (1991)
Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) J. Ziv (1997)
Professor S. Shamai (2011).