Peter Elias (November 23, 1923, to December 7, 2001) was a pioneer in the field of information theory. Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991. In 1955 he introduced convolutional codes as an alternative to block codes, and he also established the binary erasure channel and proposed list decoding of error correcting codes as an alternative to unique decoding.
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P569 (date of birth): year 1923
1923
Wikidata P166: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal.
Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
Wikidata P166: Claude E. Shannon Award
Wikidata P166 (award received): Claude E. Shannon Award.
P569 (date of birth): 1923-11-23
1923-11-23
P570 (date of death): year 2001
2001
P570 (date of death): 2001-12-07
2001-12-07
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