Shannon Day

May 18th, 1998

Arnold Auditorium, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ

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