1 Sep 08 - IEEE Information Theory Society has awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award for 2009 to Professor Jorma Rissanen.
HIIT Research Fellow Jorma Rissanen has published over 140 papers in a variety of areas including lossless and lossy compression, probability and statistics, and systems theory. He is best known for introducing and promoting the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle for model selection and statistical inference. He was an early inventor of arithmetic coding.
The Claude E. Shannon Award, awarded for "consistent and profound contributions to the field of information theory," is the highest honor of the IT Society.
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