High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert Gray Gallager (born May 29, 1931 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American electrical engineer known for his work on information theory and communications networks. He was elected an IEEE Fellow in 1968 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1979. He received the Claude E. Shannon Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1983. He also received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1990 "For fundamental contributions to communications coding techniques", the Marconi Prize in 2003, and a Dijkstra Prize in 2004, among other honors. Currently (2008) he is Professor Emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.