Thomas W. Parks

Thomas W. Parks ( born March 16, 1939 in Buffalo, New York) is an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He made ​​contributions in the field of digital signal processing, particularly in the area of digital filters and their design methods. 2004 he also received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby for Signal Processing Medal, awarded jointly with James H. McClellan, for the development of the Parks-McClellan algorithm.

Life

Parks graduated in electrical engineering in 1961 with the Bachelor and Master of Science from 1964. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from Cornell University. After 1967 he moved to a teaching position in the emerging research field of digital signal processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering from Rice University in Houston. In 1972 he published jointly with James McClellan the Parks-McClellan algorithm, which has significant impact on the sizing of digital FIR filters. From 1986 until his retirement he worked at Cornell University again.

Awards

Writings (excerpt)

  • Together with CS Burrus: DFT / FFT Convolution Algorithms, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1985, ISBN 0-47181932-8
  • Digital Filter Design, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1987, ISBN 0-47182896-3
  • Together with Douglas L. Jones: A Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Using the TMS 32010, Prentice Hall PTR, 1987, ISBN 0-13212391-6
  • Together with Bernard A. Hutchins: A Digital Signal Processing Laboratory Using the TMS 320C25, Prentice Hall, 1990, ISBN 0-13211723-1
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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