Alain Glavieux
Alain Glavieux (born July 4, 1949 in Paris , † September 25, 2004 ) was a French information theorist . He was professor at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications de Bretagne (ENST) in Brest and invented the turbo codes with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima .
Glavieux studied at ENST (diploma in 1978), was there maitre de conferences and then professor. There he initially researched underwater communication and was head of the Signals and Communication department.
The development of the turbo codes in the late 1980s (in which he worked closely with Claude Berrou) revolutionized error-correcting coding in digital information transmission. They were widely used, for example, in satellite communication and cellular communications.
In 2003 he received the Richard W. Hamming Medal with Claude Berrou, in 2003 the Grand Prix France Telecom of the Académie des sciences and in 1998 the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation of the IEEE Information Theory Society with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima. With Berrou he received the Stephen O. Rice Award for best work in the IEEE Transactions on Communication.
Fonts
- with Berrou, Thitimajshima: Near Shannon Limit error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo-codes, Proceedings of IEEE International Communications Conference 1993
- with Michel Joindot: Communications numeriques - Introduction, Elsevier Masson 1990
- Editor: Codage de canal, des bases théoriques aux turbocodes, Hermes Science Publ. 2004
- English edition: Channel Coding in Communication Networks, ISTE 2007 (with Homage to Alain Glavieux by Gérard Battail)
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glavieux, Alain |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 2004 |