The 2020 Japan Prize

• Field:
  Electronics, Information, Communication
• Achievement:
  Pioneering contribution to information and coding theory
• Lecture:
  From Information Theory to the Information Age

Award and Honor

1966	IEEE Baker Prize
1968	IEEE Fellow
1973	Moore School Gold Medal Award
1978	Guggenheim Fellow
1979	National Academy of Engineering
1983	IEEE IT Soc. Shannon Award
1984	IEEE Centennial Medal
1990	IEEE Medal of Honor
1992	National Academy of Sciences
1993	The William Bennett Prize Paper Award
1993	The Prize Paper Award for InfoComm
1993	M.I.T. Graduate Student Council Teaching Award
1998	IEEE IT Society Golden-Jubilee Paper Award
1999	The Harvey Prize in Science and Technology from Technion
1999	Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2000	IEC Fellow
2000	IEEE Third Millennium Medal
2002	Eduard Rhein Award
2003	Marconi Fellow
2004	Dijkstra Prize, ACM
2008	Robert Yarnall Award, U. Penn.

Education

1953	B.S. in electrical engineering, The University of Pennsylvania
1957	S.M. in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1960	Sc.D. in electrical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Professional History

1953	Bell Telephone Laboratories. (-1954)
1954	U.S. Army Signal Corps. (-1956)
1960	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sc.D. Electrical Engineering
1960	Faculty member at MIT
1971	President of the Information Theory Society of the IEEE
1986	Co-Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
1988	Fujitsu Professor (2001 Emeritus Professor)
1989	Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the NSF Division on Networking and Communication Research and Infrastructure (-1992)

Key Publications

• R. Gallager, (1963), "Low-density parity-check codes," Monograph, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge MA (63-20864)
• R. Gallager, (1968), “Information Theory and Reliable Communication”, Wiley, ISBN: 0471290483)
• D. P. Bertsekas and R. G. Gallager, (1987) “Data Networks,” Prentice Hall, ISBN: 0131968254, Edition 2 (1991) ISBN: 0132009161
• R. Gallager, (2008), “Principle of Digital Communication,” Cambridge Press, ISBN: 9780521879071
• R. Gallager, (2013), “Stochastic Processes, Theory for Applications,” Cambridge Press, ISBN: 9781107039759