CAPOCELLI PRIZE

The Capocelli Prize is awarded annually by the DCC program committee for an outstanding student-authored DCC paper; in memory of Renato M. Capocelli, May 3, 1940 - April 8, 1992, a friend and colleague who served on the DCC program committee during its initial two years.

The winner of the award is voted by the DCC program committee, notified during the year following the conference, and formally announced in the following year's DCC proceedings.

The past winners are:

• 2006:
  Dongsheng Bi, University of Nebraska, Lincoln "State Machine Interpretation of Arithmetic Codes for Joint Source and Channel Coding" (coauthored with Michael W. Hoffman, and Khalid Sayood).
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  Lav Varshney, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Toward a Source Coding Theory for Sets" (coauthored with Vivek K. Goyal).
  
  
• 2004:
  Emin Martinian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Source Coding with Distortion Side Information at the Encoder" (coauthored with G. W. Wornell, and R. Zamir).
  
  
• 2003:
  Narayana P. Santhanam, University of California at San Diego, "Performance of Universal Codes Over Infinite Alphabets" (co-authored with A. Orlitsky).
  
  
• 2002:
  Dan Blandford, Carnegie Mellon University, "Index Compression Through Document Reordering" (co-authored with G. Belloch).
  
  
• 2001: Qian Zhao, California Institute of Technology, "Optimal Code Design for Lossless and Near Lossless Source Coding in Multiple Access Networks" (co-authored with M. Effros).
  
  
• 2000:
  Edwin S. Hong, University of Washington, "Group Testing for Image Compression" (co-authored with R. E. Ladner).
  
  
• 1998:
  Kunihiko Sadakane, University of Tokyo, "Fast Algorithms for Making Suffix Arrays and for Burrows-Wheeler Transformation".
  
  
• 1997:
  Matthias Ruhl and Hannes Hartenstein, Universitat Freiburg, "Optimal Fractal Coding is NP-Hard".
  
  
• 1996:
  Earl Levine, Stanford University, "Stochastic Vector Quantization, and Stochastic VQ with State Feedback Using Neural Networks".
  
  
• 1995:
  Suzanne Bunton, University of Washington, "The Structure of DMC".
  
  
• 1994:
  Anurag Bist, University of Hawaii, "Differential State Quantization of High-Order Gauss-Markov Process".