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Robert Calderbank

British mathematician, computer scientist · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Born 1954 · age 71

Robert Calderbank is a professor of computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University. He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a PhD from Caltech in 1980, all in mathematics.

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2026Marconi PrizeAward2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward2021Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied MathematicsAward2015Claude E. Shannon AwardAward2013Fellow of the American Mathematical SocietyAwardIEEE Richard W. Hamming MedalAward2012Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward1954Born28 December 1954

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Marconi Prize2026
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences2022
Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics2021
Claude E. Shannon Award2015
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal2013
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society2013
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2012

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He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems. He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences.

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Born 1954 · age 71