Richard Blahut
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Born | (1937-06-09) June 9, 1937 (age 86) |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Cornell University, United States |
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Fields | Information Theory and Error Control Coding |
Institutions | University of Illinois at Urbana |
Richard E. Blahut[1] (born June 9, 1937),[2] former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, is best known for his work in information theory (e.g. the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm used in rate–distortion theory). He received his PhD Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972.
Blahut was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for pioneering work in coherent emitter signal processing and for contributions to information theory and error control codes.
Academic life
Blahut taught at Cornell from 1973 to 1994. He has taught at Princeton University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the NATO Advanced Study Institute, and has also been a Consulting Professor at the South China University of Technology. He is also the Henryk Magnuski Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Awards and recognition
- IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award, 2005
- IEEE Third Millennium Medal
- TBP Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award 2000
- IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1998, for "contributions to error-control coding, particularly by combining algebraic coding theory and digital transform techniques."
- National Academy of Engineering 1990
- Japanese Society for the Propagation of Science Fellowship 1982
- Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1981, for the development of passive surveillance systems and for contributions to information theory and error control codes.[3]
- Fellow of IBM Corporation, 1980
- IBM Corporate Recognition Award 1979
- IBM Outstanding Innovation Award 1978
- IBM Outstanding Contribution Award 1976
- IBM Resident Study Program 1969–1971
- IBM Outstanding Contribution Award 1968
Books
- Lightwave Communications, with George C. Papen (Cambridge University Press, 2019) ISBN 978-1108427562
- Cryptography and Secure Communication, (Cambridge University Press, 2014) ISBN 978-1-107-01427-5
- Modem Theory: An Introduction to Telecommunications, (Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0521780148
- Fast Algorithms for Signal Processing, (Cambridge University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0521190497
- Algebraic Codes on Lines, Planes, and Curves: An Engineering Approach, (Cambridge University Press, 2008) ISBN 0-521-77194-3
- Theory of Remote Image Formation, (Cambridge University Press, 2004) ISBN 978-0-521-55373-5
- Algebraic Codes for Data Transmission, (Cambridge University Press, 2003) ISBN 0-521-55374-1
- Algebraic Methods for Signal Processing and Communications Coding, (Springer-Verlag, 1992) ISBN 978-3540976738
- Digital Transmission of Information, (Addison–Wesley Press, 1990) ISBN 978-0201068801
- Fast Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing, (Addison–Wesley Press, 1985) ISBN 0-201-10155-6
- Theory and Practice of Error Control Codes, (Addison–Wesley Press, 1983) ISBN 978-0201101027
See also
- IEEE Biography
- ECE @ UIUC
References
- ^ a b c Richard E. Blahut was elected in 1990 as a member of National Academy of Engineering in Electronics, Communication & Information Systems Engineering and Computer Science & Engineering for pioneering work in coherent emitter signal processing and for contributions to information theory and error control codes.
- ^ Who's Who
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 1981 | IEEE Communications Society".
External links
- Richard Blahut at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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Preceded by | IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1998 | Succeeded by |
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- 1972 Claude E. Shannon
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- 1974 David S. Slepian
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- 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
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