Peter Elias

Peter Elias ( born November 23, 1923 in New Brunswick, New Jersey; † December 7, 2001 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an American scientist and Professor of Information Theory at MIT. He was a great pioneer of information theory and coding theory (error correcting codes ).

Life

Elias was the son of an engineer who worked in the laboratory of Thomas A. Edison. He studied at Swarthmore College, and from 1942 at MIT, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1944 in engineering business management ( Business Management, Engineering Management ) and then served as a teacher of radio technology in the Navy. After his release in 1946 he continued his studies at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate. In 1953 he became assistant professor, associate professor in 1957 and professor at MIT in 1960. 1960 to 1966 he headed the department of electrical and computer science ( EECS ). 1982 to 1983 he was deputy head (next to Joel Moses) of computer science. 1970 to 1972 he was Cecil H. Green Professor of Electrical Engineering and in 1974 Edwin S. Webster Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 1976 he worked at the laboratory for computer science (Computer Science) from MIT. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley (1967 /69), at Imperial College in London (1975 /76) and Harvard (1983 /84). He died of Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease.

In 1955 he led a convolutional code as an alternative to block codes as error- correcting codes. Also in the 1950s, he led a List decoding for error-correcting codes: instead of a decoding response is in greater error rates generates a list. In 1954, he led product codes ( two as a multiplication block codes ). In 1954, he led the binary erasure channel as a model for communication channels.

The Information Theory Society of the IEEE in 1997 honored him with its highest honor, the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1998 for the invention of the convolutional code with the " Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation". Shortly before his death he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal from the IEEE. Among many other honors, he was a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was one of the founders of the journal Information and Control and its co-editor.

In 1966 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow (Networks of Gaussian channels with applications to feedback systems).

Writings

  • Error - free coding, IRE Transactions (Professional Group on Information Theory, PGIT ) PGIT -4, 1954, pp. 29-37
  • Coding for noisy channels, IRE Convention Record, Part 4, 1955, p.37 -46
  • Coding for two noisy channels, in Colin Cherry (Ed. ), Information Theory, Academic Press 1956, pp. 61-74
  • Computation in the presence of noise, IBM J. Res Development, Volume 2, 1958, pp. 346-353
  • Networks of Gaussian channels with applications to feedback systems, IEEE Trans Information Theory, Volume 13, 1967, pp. 493-501
  • Universal Codeword Sets and Representations of the Integers, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 21, March 1975, pp. 194 - 203
  • Interval and recency rank source coding: Two on-line adaptive variable -length schemes, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 33, January 1987, pp. 3-10.
New Brunswick (New Jersey) Cambridge (Massachusetts) Thomas Edison Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
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