The 1997 Information Theory Society Paper Award is awarded to Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux for their paper
C. Berrou and A. Glavieux, "Near optimum error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo codes," IEEE Trans. on Communications, vol. COM-44, Oct. 1996.
Honorable mention is also given to Punya Thitimajshima for his contribution to the paper
C. Berrou, A. Glavieux and P. Thitimajshima, Near Shannon limit error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo codes," Conf. Record, 1993 IEEE International Conf. on Communications, Geneva.