Robert McEliece, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Robert McEliece

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 21-May-1942

Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Date of Death: 08-May-2019

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, cryptographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Robert McEliece

  • Robert J.
  • McEliece (May 21, 1942 – May 8, 2019) was a mathematician and engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) best known for his work in information theory.
  • He was the 2004 recipient of the Claude E.
  • Shannon Award and the 2009 recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal. Educated at Caltech (B.S.
  • 1964, Ph.D.
  • 1967) and Cambridge, he was one of the important contributors to the development of a decoder of long-constraint-length (K=13, K=15) convolutional codes, which were added to the Galileo spacecraft upon the redesign of its mission, following the 1986 crash of the Space Shuttle.

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