David Slepian
David Slepian · Technology & Engineering
Computer & information scientist
1923, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States — 2007, Summit, New Jersey, United States
United States
David Slepian is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist
Slepian was an American mathematician at Bell Labs who made foundational contributions to information and communication theory. He is remembered for the Slepian–Wolf theorem on distributed source coding, for work on prolate spheroidal functions used in signal analysis, and for early results in coding theory. His work underpins modern data compression and communications. He is documented among Jewish computer and information scientists.
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Computer & information scientist
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