The 2012 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award has been awarded to:

• Alexandros G. Dimakis, P. Brighten Godfrey, Yunnan Wu, Martin J. Wainwright and Kannan Ramchandran for "Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , Vol. 56, No. 9, pp. 4539 - 4551, September 2010
• Michael Lentmaier, Daniel J. Costello Jr., Arvind Sridharan and Kamil Sh. Zigangirov for “Iterative Decoding Threshold Analysis for LDPC Convolutional Codes," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , Vol. 56, No. 10, pp. 5274 - 5289, October 2010