Irving S. Reed

Irving Stoy Reed ( born November 12, 1923 in Seattle, Washington; † September 11, 2012 ) was an American mathematician and engineer. His best-known works were the co-founding of the Reed -Solomon and Reed -Muller codes.

Reed studied at the California Institute of Technology, where he made ​​his BS in 1944 and 1949 with a Ph.D. completed. Dissertation topic was " Quadratic Differential Equations in Banach Spaces and Analytic Functionals ". In addition to his research on coding theory, he conducted research in the field of electrical engineering, particularly in signal and image processing as well as on radar. He belonged to the team that the route guidance system MADDIDA developed for the SM -62 Snark - one of the first digital computer. In addition, he developed the Register Transfer Language, while at MIT worked.

Reed was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the IEEE. He received the 1982 Claude E. Shannon Award, 1989 Richard W. Hamming Medal, and in 1995 awarded the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.

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  • Mathematicians ( 20th century)
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  • Personality of Electrical Engineering
  • Person (Seattle )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1923
  • Died in 2012
  • Man
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