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Peter Elias

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Pioneer of information theory (1923-2001)

United StatesLived 1923 to 2001 · aged 78
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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.

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2002IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
1994ACM Fellow
1977Claude E. Shannon Award

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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.

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Lived 1923 to 2001 · aged 78
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