Past ISIT plenary speakers

2023

  • Ruediger Urbanke (Shannon lecturer)
  • Amir Dembo
  • Neri Merhav
  • Antonia Tulino
  • Maryna Viazovska

 

List of past plenary speakers at ISIT

2022

  • Raymond Yeung (Shannon lecturer)
  • Yonina Eldar
  • Michael Jordan
  • Bengt Holmström
  • Tsachy Weissman

2021

  • Alon Orlitsky (Shannon lecturer)
  • Meir Feder
  • Christina Fragouli
  • Peter Bartlett
  • Chandra Nair

2020

  • Charles Bennett (Shannon lecturer)
  • Max Welling
  • Venkat Anantharam
  • Olgica Milenkovic
  • Pablo Parrilo

2019

  • Erdal Arikan (Shannon lecturer)
  • Muriel Médard
  • Alice Guionnet
  • Yoshua Bengio
  • George V. Moustakides

2018

 

2017

 

2016

2015

 

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

  • Richard  Blahut  (Shannon lecture r )
  • P. R. Kumar
  • David MacKay
  • Benjamin Schumacher
  • Terry Speed

2004

2003

  • Lloyd Welch (Shannon lecture r )
  • Hiroshi  Nagaoka
  • Roger Brockett
  • Jorn   Justesen

2002

  • Toby Berger (Shannon lecture r )
  • Michael Berry 
  • Stephen Boyd 
  • Shafi   Goldwasser  
  • Sergio Verdú

2001

  • Jack Wolf (Shannon lecture r )
  • Robert McEliece
  • Michael Rabin
  • Benjamin Weiss
  • Frederick  Jelinek

2000

  • Panel Discussion: The Next Fifty Years of Information Theory and  Beyond  Panelists  – Tom Cover, Robert  Gallager , James Massey, Jacob  Ziv
  • Tadao   Kasami  (Shannon lecture r )
  • Thomas  Kailath  (Shannon lecture r )
  • Sanjoy   Mitter
  • Peter  Shor

1999

 No ISIT this year

1998

 

  • Neil Sloane (Shannon lecture r )
  • Thomas  Kailath
  • Richard M. Karp
  • Leonard  K leinrock  

1997

  • Jacob  Ziv  (Shannon lecture r )
  • Imre   Csiszar  (Shannon lecture r )
  • Gerhard Frey
  • Peter  Landrock
  • Lawerence  R.  Rabiner

1996

No ISIT this year 

1995

  • G. David Forney, Jr. (Shannon lecture r )
  • Brian Marcus
  • Jacob  Ziv
  • Gilles Brassard
  • I ngrid   Daubechies

1994

  • Aaron Wyner (Shannon Lecturer)
  • I.  Aleksander
  • J.  Rissanen
  • K. J.  Astrom
  • J. K. Wolf

1993

  • Elwyn Berlekamp (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Joel Cohen
  • Donald L. Snyder
  • Richard  Olshen
  • Rudolf Ahlswede

1992

No ISIT this year 

1991

  • Andrew Viterbi (Shannon lecture r )
  • Korner
  • D Ornstein
  • Kunt
  • R obert  Graham

1990

  • Tom Cover (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Christos H Papadimitriou
  • Bruce Hajek
  • Alberto  Grunbaum
  • R. L.  Dobrushin

1989

No ISIT this year 

1988

  • James Massey (Shannon lecture r )
  • Andrew Viterbi
  • Ohta
  • Amari
  • Neil J. A. Sloane

1987

No ISIT this year

1986

  • William Root (Shannon)
  • Fred Jelinek
  • Robert May
  • Andrew Viterbi
  • Gottfried Ungerboeck

1985

  • Solomon Golomb (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Adrian Clark
  • John Hopfield
  • Jack van Lint
  • Tom Cover

1984

No ISIT this year

1983

  • Robert Gallager (Shannon Lecturer)
  • G. Nagy
  • Robin Milner
  • Jack Salz
  • Ron Graham

1982

  • Irving Reed (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Tom Kailath
  • Bob McEliece
  • Neil Sloane
  • Imre Csiszar
  • B. Marti
  • Bob Gallager

1981

  • Wesley Peterson (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Jacob Ziv
  • Bob Kahn
  • Larry Roberts
  • Elwyn Berlekamp

1980

No ISIT this year

1979

  • Jacob Wolfowitz (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Jim Massey
  • S. Arimoto & T. Hashimoto
  • Bob Gallager
  • Aaron Wyner

1978

No ISIT this year

Shannon award: Mark Pinsker

1977

  • Peter Elias (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Tom Cover
  • Simon Winograd
  • J. D. Aczel
  • Y. C. Ho
  • E. T. Jaynes

1976

  • Robert Fano (Shannon Lecturer)
  • H. Cramer
  • Tom Kailath 

1975

No ISIT this year

1974

  • David Slepian (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Aaron Wyner (Keynote Address)
  • Michael Spence
  • Tom Kailath

1973

  • Claude E. Shannon (Shannon Lecturer)
  • Bob Gallager (Keynote Address)
  • R. Varshamov
  • Simon Winograd
  • M. Rabin
  • Irwin Jacobs

1972

  • Jack Wolfowitz (Keynote Address)
  • Dave Forney
  • R. Targ
  • George Turin
  • Robert Larson
  • Tom Goblick
  • Jorn Justesen
  • Manuel Blum
  • Peter Elias

1971

No ISIT this year

1970

  • Manfred Schroeder (Keynote Address)
  • Dave Forney
  • Bob Lucky
  • Jack van Lint