Viterbi Lecture

Past Speakers

2026
Paul H. Siegel
Paul  H. Siegel

University of California, San Diego

"Coding Theory, Memory, and AI:  A Harmonious Trio"

2024
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Arogyaswami Paulraj

Stanford University

"Big Ideas in Mobile Wireless Technology"

2023
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Robert Calderbank
Duke University

"Learning to Communicate"

2019
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Leonard Kleinrock
University of California, Los Angeles

"On Some of My Simple Rules"

2018
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David Tse
Stanford University

"Maximum Likelihood Genome Sequencing"

2017
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Peter Shor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“Capacities for Quantum Communication Channels”

2016
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Norman Abramson
University of Hawaii

"ALOHA to the Web "

2015
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Vincent Poor
Princeton University

"Fundamental Limits on Information Security and Privacy"

2014
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Abbas El Gamal
Stanford University

"Common Information"

2013
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John M. Cioffi
Stanford University

"Ubiquitous Cost-Effective Gigabit Per Second Broadband Access: It's Coming, And Not The Way You Think!"

2012
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Sergio Verdú
Princeton University

"What is Information Theory?"

2011
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Elwyn Berlekamp
University of California, Berkeley

"Adventures in Coding Theory"

2010
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Thomas Kailath
Stanford University

"From Radiative Transfer Theory to Fast Algorithms for Cell Phones"

2009
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Robert M. Gray
Stanford University

"Codes and Coin Flips: Compression and Modeling"

2008
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Jack K. Wolf
University of California, San Diego

"From Edison to Viterbi"

2007
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Robert J. McEliece
California Institute of Technology

"Learning to Teach the Viterbi Algorithm"

2006
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Toby Berger
University of Virginia

"Information Exchange Among Neurons in Sensory Cortex"

2005
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Jacob Ziv
Technion

"What is Hidden in an Individual Sequence?"

2004
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G. David Forney, Jr.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"Not your father's coding theory"

2003
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Andrew J. Viterbi
University of Southern California

(inaugural lecture)

Published on June 26th, 2017Last updated on April 17th, 2026