Professor Alain Glavieux
-
(b.) -1949 July 04(d.)2004 September 25
Bio/Description
French professor in electrical engineering at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.
Glavieux received an IEEE Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation in 1998, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2003, French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom award in 2003.
-
Date of Birth:
1949 July 04 -
Date of Death:
2004 September 25 -
Gender:
Male -
Noted For:
Co-inventor of turbo codes, a class of error correcting code -
Category of Achievement:
-
More Info: