Irving s reed biography of albert
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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Irving S. Reed, 88
September 11, 2012 —
On Sept.
Irving s reed biography of albert
11, 2012, Emeritus Professor Irving S. Reed of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering passed away at the age of 88.
One of the outstanding engineers of the past century, Reed made fundamental contributions to digital computers, communications, and radar.
His many major awards included election to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (1979), to the grade of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) (1973), to the receipt of its Hamming Award for Communications (1989), and the Shannon Prize, its highest award for Information Theory.
In 1995, he shared IEEE’s Masaru Ibuka Award with collaborator Gustave Solomon for their invention of Reed-Solomon Codes, for decades the m