Dave Forney
George David Forney | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 6, 1940 |
| Awards | IEEE Edison Medal(1992) Claude E. Shannon Award(1995) Marconi Prize(1997) IEEE Medal of Honor(2016) |
George David Forney Jr.(born March 6, 1940)[1]is an Americanelectrical engineerwho made contributions intelecommunicationsystem theory, specifically incoding theoryandinformation theory.
Biography
[edit]Forney received the B.S.E. degree inelectrical engineeringfromPrinceton Universityin 1961,summa cum laude,and the M.S. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from theMassachusetts Institute of Technologyin 1963 and 1965, respectively. His Sc.D thesis introduced the idea ofconcatenated codes. He is a member of the United StatesNational Academy of Engineering(1989) andNational Academy of Sciences(2003). He is a long-time faculty member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Among other things, he is generally credited with being the first to recognize the optimality and practical importance of theViterbi algorithm,and his tutorial paper on the subject is widely cited.[2][3] His work in the Viterbi algorithm and in advancing the understanding of coding theory in general influenced the design of modern digitalmodems.
In 1965 he joined theCodex Corporation.His design resulted in the first mass-produced 9600 bit/s modem introduced in 1971. He spent the academic year of 1971–1972 atStanford University,and then returned to Codex. He became vice president of research and development at Codex, through its acquisition byMotorolain 1977, serving in both management and technical positions.[4]
He received theIEEE Edison Medalin 1992 "for original contributions to coding, modulation, data communication modems, and for industrial and research leadership in communications technology".[5]In 1995 he received theClaude E. Shannon Awardfrom theIEEE Information Theory Society[6]and he received twice, in 1990 and in 2009, theIEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.[7]In 1998 Forney received a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society.[8]He has also received the 2016IEEE Medal of Honorfor "pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications".[9]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Anderson, Margo (April 20, 2016)."David Forney: The Man Who Launched a Million Modems".IEEE Spectrum.
- ^G. D. Forney.The Viterbi algorithm.Proceedings of the IEEE61(3):268–278, March 1973.
- ^G. David Forney Jr (March 8, 2005).The Viterbi Algorithm: A Personal History.Viterbi Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.arXiv:cs/0504020v2.Bibcode:2005cs........4020F.
- ^"G. David Forney, Jr".IEEE Global History Network.RetrievedAugust 8,2013.
- ^"IEEE Edison Medal Recipients"(PDF).IEEE.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 19, 2010.RetrievedJanuary 2,2011.
- ^"Claude E. Shannon Award".IEEE Information Theory Society.Archived fromthe originalon June 30, 2012.RetrievedJanuary 5,2011.
- ^"IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award Recipients"(PDF).IEEE.RetrievedJanuary 2,2011.[dead link]
- ^"Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation".IEEE Information Theory Society.RetrievedJuly 14,2011.
- ^"IEEE Medal of Honor Recipients"(PDF).IEEE. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on April 22, 2015.RetrievedDecember 8,2015.
External links
[edit]- Recent publicationsat thearXiv.
- American electrical engineers
- American information theorists
- 1940 births
- Living people
- Fellows of the IEEE
- Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- IEEE Edison Medal recipients
- MIT School of Engineering faculty
- 20th-century American engineers
- IEEE Medal of Honor recipients
- American telecommunications engineers
- Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
- MIT School of Engineering alumni
- Stanford University staff