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For contributions spanning three decades in the analysis,
simulation, and design of digital communications systems."
Ezio Biglieri
 EZIO
BIGLIERI was born in Aosta (Italy) in 1944. He received
his training in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico
di Torino (Italy), where he received his Dr.\ Engr.\
degree in 1967.
From
1968 to 1975 he was with Politecnico di Torino, first
as a Research Engineer, then as an Associate Professor.
In 1975 he was made a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering
at the University of Napoli (Italy). In 1977 he returned
to Politecnico di Torino as a Professor in the Department
of Electrical Engineering. From 1987 to 1990 he was
a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University
of California, Los Angeles. Since 1990 he has been again
a professor with Politecnico di Torino.
He
was elected three times to the Board of Governors of
the IEEE Information Theory Society, and in 1999 he
was the President of the Society. He was the general
co-chair of the ``IEEE 2000 International Symposium
on Information Theory,'' Sorrento, Italy, June 2000.
He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Information
Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society.
Among
his awards, in 2000 he received the ``IEEE Donald G.\
Fink Prize Paper Award,'', and the IEEE Third-Millennium
Medal for outstanding contributions to the Information
Theory area of technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.
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