Irving S. Reed
Irving Stoy Reed | |
---|---|
Born | November 12, 1923 Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
Died | September 11, 2012(2012-09-11) (aged 88) |
Alma mater | California Institute of Technology |
Known for | Reed–Solomon code, Reed–Muller code |
Awards | Claude E. Shannon Award (1982) IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1989) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Information theory, Coding theory |
Irving Stoy Reed (November 12, 1923 – September 11, 2012)[1][2] was an American mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code.
Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He was part of the team that built the MADDIDA, guidance system for Northrop's Snark cruise missile – one of the first digital computers. He developed and introduced the now-standard Register Transfer Language to the computer community while at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory. He was a faculty member of the Electrical Engineering-Systems Department of the University of Southern California from 1962 to 1993.
Reed was a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1979)[3] and a Fellow of the IEEE (1973),[2] a winner of the Claude E. Shannon Award, the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1989)[4] and with Gustave Solomon, the 1995 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award. In 1998 Reed received a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society.[5]
Anecdotes
The University of Southern California graduate school of electrical engineering required doctoral students to pass an oral screening exam, in which there were eight categories of test questions. Reed always asked the questions about electromagnetism and specifically Maxwell's equations, which he obviously viewed as fundamental to communication theory.
While a student in mathematics at the California Institute of Technology, Reed did not complete his required physical education courses due to time pressure and was set to enter the Navy. The only way he could graduate was to obtain a special release from Robert A. Millikan, the university's president and a former physical education instructor as well as a Nobel Prize winner and a noted hard-liner on the physical education requirement. As Reed was in Millikan's office pleading his case, he saw reprints of two papers he had published as an undergraduate on the president's table and drew them to Millikan's attention. Millikan smiled and said "You seem to me a healthy young man. I believe you will do well in the service of your country as a graduate of the California Institute of Technology."
Reed and colleagues demonstrated the MADDIDA computer to John von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. The problem set for MADDIDA was computation of a mathematical function. Von Neumann, a noted lightning calculator, kept up with the computer and checked its results with a paper and pencil.
See also
- Computer Research Corporation (CRC)
- Reed–Muller expansion
References
- ^ "USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - in Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Irving S. Reed, 88".
- ^ a b Wang, Lung-Jen; Hsieh, Wen-Shyong; Truong, Trieu-Kien; Reed, Irving S.; Cheng, T. C. (2001). "A fast efficient computation of cubic-spline interpolation in image codec". IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 49 (6): 1189–1197. Bibcode:2001ITSP...49.1189W. doi:10.1109/78.923301.
- ^ "NAE Members Directory – Dr. Irving S. Reed". NAE. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
- ^ "IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ^ "Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
External links
- Irvine C. Reed Bio at University of Southern California (Archived)
- v
- t
- e
- 1972 Claude E. Shannon
- 1973
- 1974 David S. Slepian
- 1975
- 1976 Robert M. Fano
- 1977 Peter Elias
- 1978 Mark Semenovich Pinsker
- 1979 Jacob Wolfowitz
- 1980
- 1981 W. Wesley Peterson
- 1982 Irving S. Reed
- 1983 Robert G. Gallager
- 1984
- 1985 Solomon W. Golomb
- 1986 William Lucas Root
- 1987
- 1988 James Massey
- 1989
- 1990 Thomas M. Cover
- 1991 Andrew Viterbi
- 1992
- 1993 Elwyn Berlekamp
- 1994 Aaron D. Wyner
- 1995 George David Forney
- 1996 Imre Csiszár
- 1997 Jacob Ziv
- 1998 Neil Sloane
- 1999 Tadao Kasami
- 2000 Thomas Kailath
- 2001 Jack Keil Wolf
- 2002 Toby Berger
- 2003 Lloyd R. Welch
- 2004 Robert McEliece
- 2005 Richard Blahut
- 2006 Rudolf Ahlswede
- 2007 Sergio Verdú
- 2008 Robert M. Gray
- 2009 Jorma Rissanen
- 2010 Te Sun Han
- 2011 Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
- 2012 Abbas El Gamal
- 2013 Katalin Marton
- 2014 János Körner
- 2015 Robert Calderbank
- 2016 Alexander Holevo
- 2017 David Tse
- 2018 Gottfried Ungerboeck
- 2019 Erdal Arıkan
- 2020 Charles Bennett
- 2021 Alon Orlitsky
- 2022 Raymond W. Yeung
- 2023 Rüdiger Urbanke
- 2024 Andrew Barron