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Born (1937-06-09 ) June 9, 1937 (age 87) Citizenship
American Alma mater
Cornell University ,
United States Known for
Awards
IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award , (2005)
IEEE Third Millennium Medal, (2000)
TBP Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award, (2000)
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for "contributions to error-control coding, particularly by combining
algebraic coding theory and
digital transform techniques, (1998)
Elected
[1] to the
National Academy of Engineering (of the USA) (1990)
Japanese Society for the Propagation of Science Fellowship, (1982)
Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, (1981)
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)
Scientific career 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
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
References
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