| 8:15 | Registration and Coffee |
| 9:00 | Welcome by James Mazo, Bell Labs |
| 9:20 | Jacob Ziv, Technion |
| Entropy Has Many Faces | |
| 9:50 | Robert Gallager, MIT |
| Lessons learned from Claude Shannon | |
| 10:20 | Break |
| 10:40 | Jack Wolf, UCSD |
| Shannon Theory and the Magnetic Recording Channel | |
| 11:10 | David Forney, Motorola |
| Euclidean Space Coding | |
| 11:40 | Neil Sloane, AT&T Labs |
| The Sphere Packing Problem | |
| 12:10 | Lunch |
| 2:00 | Toby Berger, Cornell; Jack Wolf, UCSD; Jacob Ziv, Technion |
| Remembering Aaron Wyner | |
| 2:30 | James Massey, ETH |
| Shannon Theory and Contemporary Cryptology | |
| 3:00 | Emre Telatar, Bell Labs |
| Current Topics in Information Theory at Bell Labs | |
| 3:30 | Break |
| 3:50 | Andrew Viterbi, Qualcomm |
| Shannon Theory and Turbo Decoding | |
| 4:20 | Thomas Cover, Stanford University |
| Shannon Theory and Investing | |
| 4:50 | Robert Lucky, Bellcore |
| The Evergreen Legacy of Shannon to Communications Today |