Tadao Kasami

Tadao Kasami (Japanese嵩 忠雄, Kasami, Tadao, born April 12, 1930 in Kobe, Japan, † 18 March 2007) was a Japanese computer scientists and electrical engineers with work in the field of error correction method, a branch of coding theory and information theory. He is named after the Kasami sequences that are used in the area of code division multiple access ( CDMA), and co-developer of the Cocke - Younger - Kasami algorithm in the field of theoretical computer science. In 1999 he received the Claude E. Shannon Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( IEEE) for his work in the field of information theory.

Kasami studied with the conclusion Ph.D. to 1963 electrical engineering at the University of Osaka, and had until 1992 a teaching position held at the university. From 1992 to 1998 he was professor at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology, from 1998 until his retirement in 2004 he taught at the Hiroshima City University.