Robert McEliece
Robert J. McEliece (May 21, 1942 – May 8, 2019)[1] was the Allen E. Puckett Professor and a professor of electrical engineering at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) best known for his work in error-correcting coding and information theory. He was the 2004 recipient of the Claude E. Shannon Award and the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. He was a life fellow of the IEEE and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998.
Born in Washington, D.C.,[2] and raised in Baltimore, McEliece was educated at Caltech (B.S. in 1964, Ph.D. in mathematics 1967[3]) and attended Trinity College, Cambridge in 1964–65.
He began working at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an undergraduate, and continued there until 1978. From 1978 until 1982 he was professor of mathematics and research professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. During the 1970s, he collaborated with Elwyn Berlekamp at Cyclotomics.
In 1982 he returned to Caltech as professor of electrical engineering, retiring in 2007. At Caltech he won five teaching awards and advised 30 Ph.D. students. From 1978 until his retirement, McEliece consulted with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on error-correcting coding schemes. Beginning in 1997, he consulted with SONY in Tokyo.
He had three daughters and one son. He died in Pasadena, California on May 8, 2019.[2]
Awards and recognitions
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1984)[4] for contribution to information and coding theory research and applications.[5]
- Fellow of the IEEE Information Theory Society[2]
Selected publications
- The theory of information and coding: A mathematical framework for communication. Addison-Wesley. 1977. ISBN 9780201135022.[6]
- A Public-Key Cryptosystem Based on Algebraic Coding Theory, JPL Deep Space Network Progress Report 42– 44 (1978), pp. 114–116, Bibcode:1978DSNPR..44..114M
- On the Inherent Intractability of Certain Coding Problems (with E. R. Berlekamp and H. Van Tilborg), IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory IT-24 (1978), pp. 384–386, doi:10.1109/TIT.1978.1055873
See also
- McEliece cryptosystem
References
- ^ "Robert J. McEliece, 1942–2019". Caltech. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
- ^ a b c "In Memoriam: Robert J. McEliece". IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
- ^ Robert McEliece at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 1984". IEEE Communications Society. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
- ^ "IEEE Fellows 1984 | IEEE Communications Society".
- ^ Berlekamp, E. R. (1978). "Review: The theory of information and coding, by R. J. McEliece". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (6): 1351–1353. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14575-3.
External links
- McEliece website at Caltech
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Preceded by Gerard J. Foschini | IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 2009 | Succeeded by John Cioffi |
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- 1972 Claude E. Shannon
- 1973
- 1974 David S. Slepian
- 1975
- 1976 Robert M. Fano
- 1977 Peter Elias
- 1978 Mark Semenovich Pinsker
- 1979 Jacob Wolfowitz
- 1980
- 1981 W. Wesley Peterson
- 1982 Irving S. Reed
- 1983 Robert G. Gallager
- 1984
- 1985 Solomon W. Golomb
- 1986 William Lucas Root
- 1987
- 1988 James Massey
- 1989
- 1990 Thomas M. Cover
- 1991 Andrew Viterbi
- 1992
- 1993 Elwyn Berlekamp
- 1994 Aaron D. Wyner
- 1995 George David Forney
- 1996 Imre Csiszár
- 1997 Jacob Ziv
- 1998 Neil Sloane
- 1999 Tadao Kasami
- 2000 Thomas Kailath
- 2001 Jack Keil Wolf
- 2002 Toby Berger
- 2003 Lloyd R. Welch
- 2004 Robert McEliece
- 2005 Richard Blahut
- 2006 Rudolf Ahlswede
- 2007 Sergio Verdú
- 2008 Robert M. Gray
- 2009 Jorma Rissanen
- 2010 Te Sun Han
- 2011 Shlomo Shamai (Shitz)
- 2012 Abbas El Gamal
- 2013 Katalin Marton
- 2014 János Körner
- 2015 Robert Calderbank
- 2016 Alexander Holevo
- 2017 David Tse
- 2018 Gottfried Ungerboeck
- 2019 Erdal Arıkan
- 2020 Charles Bennett
- 2021 Alon Orlitsky
- 2022 Raymond W. Yeung
- 2023 Rüdiger Urbanke
- 2024 Andrew Barron