Dr. Berger is the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Professor of Engineering at Cornell University. A Cornell faculty member for more than 30 years, Professor Berger has supervised some 40 MS/Ph.D. students, 100 MEng design project students and dozens of undergraduate researchers. He is the director of Cornell's DISCOVER Lab, which he founded in 1990 and in which SightSpeed was developed under the CU30 program. Professor Berger teaches courses in information theory, communications, networking, and stochastic signal processing. He is renowned for his articles and books on efficient coding of information sources. Professor Berger has served the IEEE Information Theory Society as a member of its Board of Governors, as its past president, as an associate editor and as the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fulbright Fellow, and an IEEE Millennium Medal recipient. Professor Berger was recently designated the 2002 recipient of the Shannon Award, the IEEE IT Society's highest honor. His distinguished career at Cornell University began in 1968 after completing his undergraduate studies at Yale and his graduate work at Harvard.