David Slepian
| David Slepian | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 30, 1923 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Died | November 29, 2007 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Bell Telephone Laboratories |
| Alma mater |
Harvard University University of Michigan |
| Thesis | (1949) |
| Known for | Algebraic coding theory |
| Notable awards |
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1981) IEEE Centennial Medal (1984) |
David S. Slepian (June 30, 1923 – November 29, 2007) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his work with algebraic coding theory, probability theory, and distributed source coding. He was colleagues with Claude Shannon and Richard Hamming at Bell Labs.
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he gained a B.Sc. at University of Michigan before joining the US Army in World War II, as a Sonic deception officer in the Ghost army. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1949, writing his dissertation in physics. After post-doctoral work at the University of Cambridge and University of Sorbonne, he worked at the Mathematics Research Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he pioneered work in algebraic coding theory on group codes, first published in the paper A Class of Binary Signaling Alphabets. Here, he also worked along with other information theory giants such as Claude Shannon and Richard Hamming. He also proved the possibility of singular detection, a perhaps unintuitive result. He is also known for Slepian's lemma in probability theory (1962), and for discovering a fundamental result in distributed source coding called Slepian–Wolf coding with Jack Keil Wolf (1973).
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