The Society congratulates the winners of the 2008 IT Paper Award: " Compressed sensing ," by David Donoho , which appeared in the April 2006 IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and " Near-optimal signal recovery from random projections: universal encoding strategies, " by Emmanuel Candes and Terence Tao , which appeared in the December 2006 Transactions. These two overlapping papers are the foundations of the exciting new field of compressed sensing.

The Information Theory Society Paper Award is given annually to an outstanding publication in the fields of interest to the Society appearing anywhere during the preceding two calendar years.  The running list of awardees can be found at the  IT Award Page .