SBrT - XXVI Simpósio Brasileiro de Telecomunicações

Título: "Information Theory as a Design Driver"

Palestrante:

Prof. Sergio Verdú (Princeton University)

Resumo:

In the sixty years since its inception by Claude Shannon, information theory has had a notable success in shaping the design of digital communications systems. In this talk, I review some of the main instances of systems and algorithms whose design is driven by information theory. I will also review some of the challenges ahead.

Biografia:

Sergio Verdú received the Telecommunications Engineering degree from the Universitat Politécnica de Barcelona in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. Since 1984 he has been a member of the faculty of Princeton University.
Sergio Verdú is the recipient of the 2007 Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2008 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal. In 2007 he was elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

He is a recipient of several paper awards from the IEEE: the 1992 Donald Fink Paper Award, the 1998 Information Theory Outstanding Paper Award, an Information Theory Golden Jubilee Paper Award, the 2002 Leonard Abraham Prize Award, and the 2006 Joint Communications/Information Theory Paper Award. In 1998, Cambridge University Press published his book Multiuser Detection, for which he received the 2000 Frederick E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. In 2005, he received a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya.

Sergio Verdú served as President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1997 and as Associate Editor for Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.