Richard W. Hamming Medal is an award awarded annually by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE ) for his exceptional contribution to the science of information, information systems and technology . The award may be presented as one person or a group of persons.
The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 1986 [1] and named after Richard Hamming , who plays a central role in the development of computers and computer science , and who made a significant contribution to the science of information (in particular, in the field of error correction codes ).
Laureates
| Year | Laureates | Reason for award [2] |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Richard Hamming | For his exceptional innovative contribution to the development of the science of information and information systems, as well as for the inspiration of generations of researchers in these fields |
| 1989 | For his contribution to the fields of computer design, automatic detection and processing of signals in noise and error correction codes . | |
| 1990 | Denis Ritchie , Ken Thompson | For the creation of the Unix operating system and the programming language C. |
| 1991 | Alvin Burlekamp | For his deep contribution to the theory and application of error correction codes . |
| 1992 | Lotfi Asker Zade | For his fruitful contribution to the fields of information science and information systems, including the development of the concept of fuzzy sets . |
| 1993 | Jorma Rissanen | For a fundamental contribution to information theory, statistics, control theory and complexity theory . |
| 1994 | For the development of trellis modulation for digital communication . | |
| 1995 | Jacob Ziv | For his contribution to information theory, as well as to the theory and practice of data compression |
| 1996 | Mark Semenovich Pinsker | For outstanding contributions to information theory, statistical evaluation, and coding theory . |
| 1997 | For his outstanding contribution to the theory of information and communication, statistics and pattern recognition . | |
| 1998 | For leadership and a great contribution to the architecture of the Internet as a universal information environment . | |
| 1999 | David huffman | For developing a method for calculating the minimum redundancy of codes ( Huffman code ) and contribution to the work on pattern recognition . |
| 2000 | Solomon Wolf Golomb | For a fundamental contribution to the theory of shift registers and their application in digital communications . |
| 2001 | For his innovative contribution to the architecture of communication networks by creating virtual circuit switching technology . | |
| 2002 | For a fundamental and innovative contribution to the theory of information and its applications . | |
| 2003 | , | For the invention of turbo codes that revolutionized digital communications . |
| 2004 | For a fundamental contribution to the theory and practice of the transfer and storage of information . | |
| 2005 | Neil Sloan | For his contribution to coding theory and its application to communications, computer science, mathematics and statistics . |
| 2006 | Vladimir Iosifovich Levenshtein | For his contribution to the theory of error correction codes, and the theory of information, including Levenshtein distance . |
| 2007 | Abraham Lempel | For innovative work in the field of data compression, including the Lempel-Ziva algorithm . |
| 2008 | For a fundamental contribution to the theory of information and the development of detection with many users ( English multiuser detection ) . | |
| 2009 | For his innovative contribution to the theory and practice of limiting channel coding . | |
| 2010 | Whitfield Diffie , Martin Hellman , Ralph Merkle | For the invention of public-key cryptography and its use for communication . |
| 2011 | For his contribution to information theory | |
| 2012 | , | For his contribution to coding theory, in particular for the development of fountain codes |
| 2013 | Robert Culderbank | For a fundamental contribution to coding theory that influenced modems and wireless communications |
| 2014 | , | For a fundamental contribution to coding theory, sequential processing of information and applications |
| 2015 | Imre Chisar | For a fundamental contribution to the theory of information, the and statistics |
| 2016 | For his contribution to the network multi-user theory of information and the impact on the architecture of programmable circuits | |
| 2017 | Original text For fundamental contributions to information theory and wireless communications | |
| 2018 | Original text For contributions to information and communications theory, especially the discovery of polar codes and polarization techniques |
Notes
- ↑ IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal . - A section of the IEEE Institute’s website dedicated to the Richard Hamming Medal. Date of treatment June 2, 2010. Archived April 15, 2012.
- ↑ IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients . - List of Richard Hammig Medal Awards. Date of treatment June 2, 2010. Archived April 15, 2012.
Links
- ieee.org/about/awards/medals/hamming.html - official site of the Richard Hamming Medal