Jorma Rissanen

Jorma Rissanen John ( born October 20, 1932 in Pielisjärvi, Finland) is an American information theorist.

Rissanen studied at Helsinki University of Technology with a degree in engineering in 1956, the engineer - licentiate in 1960 and a PhD in control theory and mathematics in 1965. His research since 1960 at IBM. In 1973/74, he was professor of control theory at the University of Linköping. After joining IBM, he worked at the Helsinki Institute of Science and Technology and the Technical University of Tampere.

In 1978 he led a minimum Description Length and he was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, a pioneer in arithmetic coding.

In 1993 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal, the 1998 Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation of the IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon and the 2009 Award. In 2006 he held the Kolmogorov Lecture at the University of London. He became an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Tampere in Finland in 1992. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Writings

  • Information theory and complexity in statistical modeling, Springer Verlag 2007
  • Generalized force Inequality and Arithmetic Coding, IBM Journal of Research and Development 20, 1976, p 198-203
  • GG Langdon Jr. Arithmetic coding, IBM Journal of Research and Development 23, 1979, pp. 149-162
  • Modeling by shortest data description, Automatica, Volume 14, 1978, p 465-658 (Minimum Description Length )
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