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Viterbi Keynote Lecture

Speaker: Dr. Sergio Verdú, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University

Talk Title: What is Information Theory

Abstract: This wide-audience talk will address the history of Claude Shannon’s theory on the fundamental limits of data compression and data transmission through noisy channels. We will review the impact of information theory on the design of various information technologies, as well as its intersections with other fields. We will also discuss the evolving perception of information theory since its inception in 1948 among the wider scientific community.


3:00pm - Reception
4:00pm - Lecture

Biography: Sergio Verdú is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, he is the recipient of the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award, and the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. He received the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, and a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection. His papers have received several awards, including the 1992 IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award, the Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award in both 1998 and 2012, an IEEE Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award, the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award in the field of Communications Systems, the 2007 IEEE Joint Communications/Information Theory Paper Award, and the 2009 Stephen O. Rice Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. He served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.

Host: Dr. Alexander Sawchuk

More Info: http://ee.usc.edu/news/viterbi_lecture-verdu.htm

More Information: 20120301 Verdu Print.pdf

Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Auditorium and Patio

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Mayumi Thrasher

Event Link: http://ee.usc.edu/news/viterbi_lecture-verdu.htm