- Aaron D. Wyner
Dr. Aaron D. Wyner (
March 17 ,1939 -September 29 ,1997 ) was an Americaninformation theorist noted for his contributions incoding theory , particularly theGaussian channel . He lived inSouth Orange, New Jersey .Burkhart, Ford. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E2DF1E3CF930A25753C1A961958260 "Aaron D. Wyner, 58; Helped Speed Data Around the Globe"] , "The New York Times ",October 13 ,1997 . AccessedNovember 9 ,2007 .]Wyner was born in the
Bronx ,New York . In 1955, he graduated from theBronx High School of Science , and in 1960 completed a five-year joint engineering program withQueens College of theCity University of New York andColumbia University . In 1963 he received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering fromColumbia University for a thesis that worked out the algebra forconvolutional code s.Slepian, David. [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10094&page=299 "Memorial Tributes: National Academy of Engineering, Volume 9"] ,National Academy of Engineering , 2001. AccessedNovember 9 ,2007 .]After a summer job at the IBM
Thomas J. Watson Research Center , Wyner joinedBell Laboratories atMurray Hill, New Jersey , as a member of the technical staff. In 1974 he became head of its Communications Analysis Research Department and led it until 1993, when he became a researcher in the information theory department.His research included
coding theory ,optical communications ,cryptography , andstochastic process . In a 1975 paper, he introduced the "wire-tap channel", showing how one could obtain "perfect secrecy" when a receiver enjoys a better channel than does the wire-tapping opponent.Wyner was a member of the
National Academy of Engineering , anIEEE Fellow, and received all the IEEE Information Theory Society awards, i.e., theClaude E. Shannon Award , Prize Paper Award, and designation as Shannon Lecturer.References
References
* [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10094&page=298 National Academy of Engineering memorial tribute]
* [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E2DF1E3CF930A25753C1A961958260 New York Times obituary]
* [http://www.itsoc.org/publications/nltr/97_dec/orb.html ITSOC obituary]
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