MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Amos Lapidoth Appointed to KDD Chair

September 3, 1997

To: EECS Faculty and Staff

From: Paul Penfield, Jr.

Date: September 3, 1997

Subject: Amos Lapidoth Appointed to KDD Chair

I am pleased to report to you that Professor Amos Lapidoth has been appointed as the next holder of the KDD Career Development Professorship in Communications and Technology. This appointment will run for three years, starting September 1, 1997.

Amos is a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, and an expert on communications theory and information theory. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1995, following earlier degrees (in both mathematics and electrical engineering) from the Technion. He arrived at MIT in Fall 1995, and his research here has involved fundamental limits on reliable communication under channel uncertainty. He recently was awarded an NSF CAREER grant to support his research. He has taught 6.011 and 6.441.

The KDD chair was established in 1983 by the Kokusai Denshin Denwa Co., Ltd. of Tokyo, in order to promote teaching and research in communications and technology, and also to facilitate increased cultural and intellectual exchange between Japan and the United States. Previous chairholders have included Dave Gifford, Dave Tennenhouse, Qing Hu, and Mitch Trott.