The IEEE Information Theory Society invites nominations for the Claude E. Shannon Award.

The Claude E. Shannon Award honors 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.

Since 2009, the Shannon Award Committee has issued an open call for nominations.  Although anyone may make a nomination, the Committee retains the responsibility of assuring that a suitable slate of candidates is nominated and may itself generate nominations.  Nominations and (optional) letters of endorsement must be submitted by March 1, 2015 using the online nomination and endorsement forms available at http://www.itsoc.org/shannon-award .

For a list of past Shannon Award Recipients, please visit  http://www.itsoc.org/honors/claude-e-shannon-award

Recordings of past Shannon Lectures are available at  http://media.itsoc.org/isit.html