2004 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award.

The article presents information about the 2004 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award. The award was given to Ralf Koetter and Alexander Vardy for their paper "Algebraic Soft-Decision Decoding of Reed-Solomon Codes," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 49, pp. 2809-2825, November 2003. The IEEE Information Theory Society Paper award, consisting of a plaque and an honorarium, is given annually for an outstanding publication in the field of information theory published anywhere during the preceding two-year period. Its purpose is to recognize exceptional publications in the field and to stimulate interest in, and encourage contributions to, the discipline. The award winner Ralf Koetter received the diploma degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree from Sweden. Another winner Alexander Vardy was born in Moscow in 1963. He received the B.Sc. degree from the Technion, Haifa, Israel, in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree from the Tel-Aviv University, Israel, in 1991.