2008 Best Student Paper Award in the area of Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage

Prof Anthony Weiss and his former PhD student Ori Shental for winning the *2008 Best Student Paper Award in the area of Signal Processing and Coding for Data Storage*. This is an annual award announced by the Signal Processing for Storage Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society.

The award will be given at the DSTC meeting at IEEE GLOBECOM in Hawaii, November 2009.

The link for past awards: http://www.comsoc.org/~spfs/news.html

Ori Shental, Noam Shental, Shlomo Shamai (Shitz), Ido Kanter, Anthony J. Weiss, and Yair Weiss, ``Discrete-Valued Input Two-Dimensional Gaussian Channels with Memory: Estimation and Information Rates via Graphical Models and Statistical Mechanics, '' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol.~54, No.~4, pp.~1500-1513, April 2008