W. Wesley Peterson

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 the Cyclic 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 the Japan Prize in 1999.

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 of error correcting codes, 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 of programming languages, systems programming, and networks. As well as the Japan Prize, he was awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1981, and the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984.

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 the Japan Prize
* [http://www.japanprize.jp/e_1999(p)pro.htm] resume on Japan Prize site.


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