{"id":2364,"date":"2021-11-01T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2025-08-12T18:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:04:10","slug":"gray-receives-the-okawa-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/2021\/11\/01\/gray-receives-the-okawa-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Gray Receives the Okawa Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/minds\/files\/2025\/07\/robert.gray_-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2365 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/files\/2025\/07\/robert.gray_-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/files\/2025\/07\/robert.gray_-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/files\/2025\/07\/robert.gray_-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/files\/2025\/07\/robert.gray_.jpg 426w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/robert-gray\/\">Research Professor Robert Gray<\/a> received <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the 2020 Okawa Prize in recognition of his \u201cseminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education.\u201d The Okawa Prize, &#8220;intended to pay tribute to and make public recognition of persons who have made outstanding contributions to the research, technological development and business in the information and telecommunications field, internationally,\u201d is awarded by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2021\/10\/21\/a-lifetime-of-commitment-to-engineering-and-diversity\/\">on ECE News page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Research Professor Robert Gray received the 2020 Okawa Prize in recognition of his \u201cseminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education.\u201d The Okawa Prize, &#8220;intended to pay tribute to and make public recognition of persons who have made outstanding contributions to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/minds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}