James Cooley

James W. Cooley ( born 1926 ) is an American mathematician.

Education and professional career

He studied applied mathematics and earned his bachelor's degree in 1949 from Manhattan College, New York City, 1951, his master's degree and his Ph.D. in 1961 at Columbia University.

From 1953 to 1956 he was a programmer on John von Neumann's computer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (New Jersey).

From 1956 to 1962 he worked on quantum mechanical calculations at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, he moved to IBM and conducted research at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center.

After his retirement in 1991 he was appointed to the University of Rhode Iceland, where he works at the College of Engineering and is still involved as an associate professor in research projects for signal detection.

He received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal.

Work

His most important contribution to mathematics and digital signal processing is to be, along with John W. Tukey in 1965 developed and published, algorithm for computer-based fast Fourier transform.

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