On April 1, 1998, the Eduard Rhein Foundation announced the
1998 winners of the Eduard Rhein Awards. Professor Jacob Ziv of the
Technion, Haifa, Israel, will receive the 1998 Eduard Rhein Prize
for his "groundbreaking publications on the theories of information and
communication technologies," each of which has "spawned new avenues of
research and novel applications" including work in "concatenated
channel coding, the Ziv-Zakai bound of estimation theory, and
complexity measures for strings of symbols." The Eduard Rhein Prize
will be presented on October 10, 1998 in Munich, Germany.