Alain Glavieux

Alain Glavieux ( born July 4, 1949 in Paris, † 25 September 2004) was a French information theorist. He was a professor at the École nationale supérieure for Telecommunications de Bretagne ( ENST ) in Brest and with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima inventor of turbo codes.

Glavieux studied at the ENST ( diploma 1978), there was Maitre de conferences and then professor. He conducted research there initially on underwater communication and was head of signals and communications.

The development of turbo codes in the late 1980s ( when he closely with Claude Berrou worked ) revolutionized the error-correcting coding in digital information transfer. They have been widely used for example in satellite communications and mobile.

In 2003 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal with Claude Berrou, 2003 Grand Prix France Telecom of the Academie des Sciences and in 1998 the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation of the IEEE Information Theory Society Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima. With Berrou, he received the Stephen O. Rice Award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Communication.

Writings

  • With Berrou, Thitimajshima: Near Shannon limit error -correcting coding and decoding: Turbo - codes, Proceedings of IEEE International Communications Conference 1993
  • With Michel Joindot: Communications numeriques - Introduction, Elsevier Masson 1990
  • Publisher: codage de canal, the bases théoriques aux turbo codes, Hermes Publ 2004 English edition: Channel Coding in Communication Networks, ISTE 2007 ( with Homage to Alain Glavieux by Gérard Battail )
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