Peter Elias
Peter Elias · Technology & Engineering
Invented convolutional error-correcting codes.
1923, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA — 2001, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
United States
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Peter Elias was an information theorist at MIT who invented convolutional error-correcting codes, a technique that lets digital data be transmitted reliably over noisy channels and underlies modern communication and storage systems. He also made early contributions to source coding. He was Jewish.
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Invented convolutional error-correcting codes.
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