IAS Annual Meeting Awards [Awards]

Annual IT Awards Announced

This paper is based on the Shannon Lecture presented in August 2011, at ISIT2011, Saint Petersburg, Russia, and it presents a subjective overview of selected topics in Information Theory, Communications and Signal Processing taking an InformationEstimation perspective. We first review basic Information-Minimum Mean Square Error (IMMSE) relations and properties in Gaussian additive channels, and...

Association awards presented at annual meeting in chicago.

research, fostering scientific freedom and responsibility, science journalism, and service to scientific community were distributed at the 1987 Annual Meeting of the Association in Chicago last month. The Philip Hauge Abelson Prize, the Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award, and the Behavioral Science Research Prize were presented immediately preceding the president's Public Lecture, Tues...

Image awards

Why is the mirror neuron system so controversial? About a dozen papers have reported direct evidence for mirror neuron activity in monkeys and birds. Approximately 100 times as many papers refer to mirror neurons without directly recording their activity, often implying a link between mirror neurons and higher cognitive functions. While the existence of mirror neurons in animals is beyond doubt...

Merit awards.

Awards & Accolades