Awards
In 1993, Ziv was awarded the Israel Prize, for exact sciences.
Ziv received in 1995 the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, for "contributions to information theory, and the theory and practice of data compression", and in 1998 a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society.
Ziv is the recipient of the 1997 Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society and the 2008 Information and Communication Technologies Award of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards. These prestigious awards are considered second only to the Nobel Prize in their monetary amount.
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