Punya Thitimajshima
Punya Thitimajshima ( Thai : ปัญญา ฐิติ มัชฌิมา ; * November 9, 1955 ; † May 9, 2006 ) was a Thai information theorist , known as the co-inventor of the turbo codes with Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux . He was Professor of Telecommunications at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Lat Krabang (KMITL).
Thitimajshima studied control and regulation engineering and electrical engineering and communications engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne and the Universite de Bretagne Occidentale at the KMITL . In 1993 he received his doctorate there (Systematic recursive convolutional codes and their application to parallel concatenation). In 1995 he became a lecturer and then associate professor at KMITL (Telecommunications Engineering Department).
In 1993 he published the fundamental work with Berrou and Glavieux that introduced turbo codes. The invention of the turbo codes revolutionized the error-correcting coding in digital information transmission and showed the possibility of codes close to the Shannon limit value . They were widely used, for example, in satellite communication (for example from NASA to the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) and cellular communications.
In 1998 he received the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society with Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux. In 2003 he received the King of Thailand's Prize for Outstanding Technological Achievement.
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- with Berrou, Glavieux: Near Shannon Limit error-correcting coding and decoding: Turbo-codes , Proceedings of IEEE International Communications Conference 1993, pdf
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| SURNAME | Thitimajshima, Punya |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Thai computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1955 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 9, 2006 |