Inform. Theory paper nominations sought

[Bradley Dickinson]

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS:  IEEE INFORMATION THEORY SOCIETY PAPER AWARD

Nominations are sought for the 1989 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award.
This award will be given for an outstanding publication in the field of
interest* of the Society appearing in any journal during the preceding two 
calendar years (1987-1988).  

Nominations should consist of a complete citation for the publication, a brief
description of the contribution of the paper, and a statement indicating why the
paper is deserving of the Award.

Nominations may be submitted to the Chair of the IT Society Awards Committee:

H. Vincent Poor
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1101 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801  USA

E-mail:  poor at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu
Telephone:  (217) 333-6449
Telefax:  (217) 244-1764;


or to any other member of the Committee:

Thomas M. Cover (cover at isl.stanford.edu)
Daniel J. Costello (dan at ndsun.uucp) 
Shu Lin (University of Hawaii)
Sergio Verdu (verdu at ivy.princeton.edu )
Kung Yao (IAD3TAO%OAC.UCLA.EDU).

Nominations should be received by April 30, 1989, at the latest, and preferably
by April 21, 1989.


*The field of interest of the Information Theory Society is the processing,
transmission, storage and use of information and the foundations of the
communication process.  It specifically encompasses theoretical and certain
applied aspects of coding, communications and communications networks,
complexity and cryptography, detection and estimation, learning, Shannon Theory,
and stochastic processes.