Gottfried Ungerböck

Gottfried Ungerböck , also Ungerboeck, (born March 15, 1940 in Vienna ) is an Austrian communications engineer and inventor of trellis coding .

Life

Ungerböck studied electrical engineering with a focus on communications engineering at the Vienna University of Technology . After graduating, he started to work for IBM Austria. In 1967 he moved to the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and took up a doctoral degree at the ETH Zurich , where he received his doctorate in 1970 ( nonlinear equalization of binary signals in Gaussian noise ).

His research focus at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory was digital signal processing , transmission and information theory . Trellis coding was his major contribution in these areas .

Ungerböck has worked for Broadcom as Technical Director of the " Communication Systems Research " division since 1998 and lives in Langnau am Albis in Switzerland .

Awards (selection)

• 1984: IBM Fellow
• 1993: Honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology
• 1994: IEEE Fellow , Richard W. Hamming Medal
• 1996: Marconi Prize
• 1997: Australia Prize
• 2017: Claude E. Shannon Award

Works

• Gottfried Ungerböck: Transistor power supplies, state examination work carried out at the Institute for Telecommunications at the Technical University of Vienna, March 1964.

Web links

• Literature by and about Gottfried Ungerböck in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oral history: Gottfried Ungerboeck

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.