Abstract :
The recipients of the 2014 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award are Parikshit Gopalan, Cheng Huang, Huseyin Simitci, and Sergey Yekhanin, for the paper, "On the Locality of Codeword Symbols," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 58, no. 11, pp. 6925-6934, November 2012.