Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Information Theory
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
On June 30, 1998, the ICCS organized a small celebration for the 50th
anniversary of information theory. Invited speakers included:
Professor James Massey (ETH), whose presentation was titled "Shannon's Legacy";
Professor Oscar Moreno (UPR), who gave a talk titled "Electronic Signature
in the European Union, and Mr. David Herson (director of INFOSEC/DGXIII)
who spoke on "Stream Ciphers, Exponential Sums, CDMA Sequences, Expander
Graphs." The event also included an introductory technical talk presented
by Professor Afrati (NTUA) and Dr. Polemi (ICCS-NTUA) and a variety of
contributed talks on applications and implementations of coding theory,
cryptology, the interaction between these fields and their impact on security.