2004 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award.

The article presents information about the 2004 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. The award was presented to Giuseppe Caire and Shlomo Shamai for their paper "On the Achievable Throughput of a Multiantenna Gaussian Broadcast Channel," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory's July 2003 issue. The award consisting of a plaque and an honorarium, is given annually for an outstanding paper that appeared in any of the two societies' publications during the preceding year. The purpose of the award, established in 1999, is to recognize exceptional published works in research areas of common interest to the two societies. The award winner Guseppe Caire was born in Torino in Italy in 1965. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Princeton University in 1992. He did his Ph.D.degree from Politecnino di Torino in 1994. The other winner Shlomo Shamai received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Tecnion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1975, 1981 and 1986 respectively.