Toby Berger

Toby Berger ( born September 4, 1940 in New York City ) is an American information theorist.

Berger studied electrical engineering at Yale University with a bachelor's degree in 1962 and from Harvard University with a master's degree in 1964 and a doctorate in applied mathematics in 1966 Donald Winston Tufts ( Nyquist 's problem- in data transmission theory ). From 1962 he conducted research at Raytheon, from 1966 to 1968 as a Senior Scientist. He was Assistant Professor and from 1977 Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University in 1968. From 2006 he was at the University of Virginia.

It deals with, among other things, the theory of data compression in multimedia applications under in channels with losses.

He is co-founder of the company SightSpeed ​​technology for video conferencing, IP - telephony and instant messaging. He advised next to Raytheon, IBM and Schlumberger. From 1987 he was editor of the IEEE Transactions in Information Theory and was President of the IEEE Information Theory Group.

In 1982 he received the Frederick E. Terman Award, the 2011 Richard W. Hamming Medal, and the 2002 Claude E. Shannon Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow of the IEEE. 1975/76 he was a Guggenheim Fellow and 1980/81 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

His doctoral Richard Blahut heard.

Writings

  • Rate -distortion theory: A mathematical basis for data compression, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice- Hall, 1971.
  • Digital Compression for Multimedia, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1998.
  • On the correlation coefficient of a bivariate, equal variance, complex Gaussian sample, Annals of Mathematical Statistics, Volume 43, 1972, p 2000-2003.
  • Minimum entropy quantizers and permutation codes, Invited paper, Special Issue on Quantization, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT -28, 1982, p.149 - 157th
  • With AH Kaspi rate -distortion for correlated sources with Partially separated encoders. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT -28, 1982, p 828-840.
  • With Z. Zhang: Minimum breakdown degradation in binary source encoding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory IT -29, 1983, pp. 807-814.
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