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Aaron Wyner

Who

Aaron Wyner · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1939, New York City, USA — 1997, USA

Where

United States (Bell Labs)

Biography

Aaron Wyner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Aaron D. Wyner was an American information theorist at Bell Labs whose results became pillars of the field: the Wyner–Ziv theorem on source coding with side information, the wiretap channel that founded information-theoretic security, and 'common information'. Born in New York to a Jewish family, he received the IEEE's highest information-theory honors. He was Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS