# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peter-elias
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:05:24.838Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peter-elias"
name: "Peter Elias"
slug: "peter-elias"
description: "Peter Elias 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."
tagline: "Pioneer of information theory (1923-2001)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/26/Peter_Elias.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1923-11-23"
deathDate: "2001-12-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1453488372093023
  historical:           9.145897333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Пітер Еліес"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Elias"
    title: "Peter Elias"
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    title: "Peter Elias"
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    title: "Peter Elias"
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    title: "피터 일라이어스"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump