Abstract :
The recipients of the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award are Shrinivas Kudekar, Thomas J. Richardson, and Rudiger L. Urbanke, for the paper "Threshold saturation via spatial coupling: Why convolutional LDPC ensembles perform so well over the BEC," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 803-834, February 2011.
