Prof. David Forney, together with his co-author Daniel Costello Jr., has been awarded the 2009 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award. They received this award for their paper "Channel Coding: The Road to Channel Capacity" which appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE in June 2007.

On October 8 2008, the University Catholique de Louvain conferred the title of Doctor Honoris Causa to Prof. John Tsitsiklis in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the theory and application of optimization in distributed and stochastic systems.

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