Peter Elias Peter Elias Born November 23, 1923 New Brunswick, New Jersey Died December 7, 2001 (aged 78) Cambridge, Massachusetts Residence USA Fields Information theory, Coding theory Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology Known for convolutional code Peter Elias (November 23, 1923 – December 7, 2001) was a pioneer in the field of information theory. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991. In 1955, Elias introduced convolutional codes as an alternative to block codes. He also established the binary erasure channel and proposed list decoding of error-correcting codes as an alternative to unique decoding. Elias received in 1998 a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society;[1] and in 2002 the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, for "fundamental and pioneering contributions to information theory and its applications".[2] He is also a recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award (1977). He died at 78 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. References 1. ^ "Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation" . IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved July 14, 2011. 2. ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients". IEEE. Retrieved May 29, 2011. ↑Jump back a section External links "MIT Professor Peter Elias dies at 78" Peter Elias at the Mathematics Genealogy Project National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir v t e IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 1988–2000 Richard Hamming (1988) Irving S. Reed (1989) Dennis Ritchie / Ken Thompson (1990) Elwyn Berlekamp (1991) Lotfi A. Zadeh (1992) Jorma Rissanen (1993) Gottfried Ungerboeck (1994) Jacob Ziv (1995) Mark Semenovich Pinsker (1996) Thomas M. Cover (1997) David D. Clark (1998) David A. Huffman (1999) Solomon W. Golomb (2000) 2001–present Alexander G. Fraser (2001) Peter Elias (2002) Claude Berrou / Alain Glavieux (2003) Jack K. Wolf (2004) Neil Sloane (2005) Vladimir Levenshtein (2006) Abraham Lempel (2007) Sergio Verdú (2008) Peter Franaszek (2009) Whitfield Diffie / Martin Hellman / Ralph Merkle (2010) Toby Berger (2011) Michael Luby / Amin Shokrollahi (2012) Robert Calderbank (2013) This biography of an American academic is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Authority control VIAF: 43100952 ↑Jump back a section Read in another language This page is available in 3 languages Deutsch Français 한국어 Last modified on 14 March 2013, at 10:05
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