- W. Wesley Peterson
William Wesley Peterson,
PhD (born April 22, 1924 in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for inventing theCyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)cite journal
author = Peterson, W. W. and Brown, D. T.
year = 1961
month = January
title = Cyclic Codes for Error Detection
journal = Proceedings of the IRE
doi = 10.1109/JRPROC.1961.287814
issn = 0096-8390
volume = 49
pages = 228 - The original paper on CRCs] , for which research he was awarded theJapan Prize in1999 .Peterson is a professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa . He has co-authored a number of books on the topic oferror correcting code s, including the revised 2nd edition of "Error Correcting Codes"cite book
author = Peterson, W. W. and Weldon, E. J.
year = 1971
title = Error Correcting Codes, Revised 2nd Edition
publisher = MIT Press
isbn = 0262160390] (co-authored with E. J. Weldon). He has also done research and published in the fields ofprogramming language s, systems programming, and networks. As well as the Japan Prize, he was awarded theClaude E. Shannon Award in1981 , and theIEEE Centennial Medal in1984 .References
External links
* [http://www2.hawaii.edu/~wes/] home page at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa
* [http://www.ifp.uiuc.edu/~junchen/peterson.htm] press release announcing the award of theJapan Prize
* [http://www.japanprize.jp/e_1999(p)pro.htm] resume onJapan Prize site.
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