News of 1998

• [Nov] Prof.dr.ir. K.A. Schouhamer Immink is the recipient of the 1999 IEEE Edison Medal for

  "a career of creative contributions to the technologies of digital video, audio and data recording."

• [Announcement] A scientific meeting on "Convolutional Codes and their Applications" will take place in Kamp-Lintfort, November 4-6, 1998. Meeting organizers: Prof. Han Vinck ( Essen University, Germany) and Prof. Rolf Johannesson (Lund University, Sweden). An announcement and call for papers is also available.
• [May 29] Ir. Paul Volf won the Gauss Foundation Best Paper Award for his presentation at the Nineteenth Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 28-29, Veldhoven, The Netherlands. The paper "The Switching Method: Elaborations", co-authored by dr.ir. Frans Willems, deals with an efficient (switching) method to combine the best of several different Universal Source Coding Algorithms.
• [May 28] As the board of the WIC served its four year term, a new board was elected at the plenary meeting of the WIC members during the Nineteenth Symposium on Information Theory in the Benelux, May 28-29, Veldhoven, The Netherlands. Follow this link for the composition of the new board of the WIC.
• [May 7] Dr.ir. Erik Meeuwissen successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis "Information Theoretical Aspects of Two-way Communication". Thesis advisors were prof.dr.ir. Piet Schalkwijk and prof.dr. Edward van der Meulen. The thesis reports on the most recent strategies for two-way communication over the Binary Multiplying channel. It also contains a very readable and interesting first chapter that gives an historical overview of the development of Shannon's ideas on two-way communication.
• [March 27] Dr.ir Henk Hollmann receives the SNS-Bank Award for the best theoretical Ph.D. Thesis at the T.U.E. in the academic term 1996-1997. His thesis contains major contributions to the design and analysis of modulation codes.