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D-Index
58
Citations
35077
World Ranking
3520
National Ranking
23

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award
  • 1993 - IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal "For fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical inference, control theory, and the theory of complexity."

Overview

Jorma Rissanen was affiliated with the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology in Finland. Throughout their career, they contributed to the fields of information theory, statistical inference, control theory, and the theory of complexity.

Rissanen was recognized with two notable awards during their lifetime. In 1993, they received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for fundamental contributions to information theory, statistical inference, control theory, and the theory of complexity. Later, in 2009, the IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award was conferred upon them.

The scientist did not have recent papers, frequent co-authors, or frequent publication venues listed in the available data. There were no book publications or detailed records of main fields of study, subfields, or specific topics with publication counts.

Best Publications

  • Paper: Modeling by shortest data description

    J. Rissanen

  • A UNIVERSAL PRIOR FOR INTEGERS AND ESTIMATION BY MINIMUM DESCRIPTION LENGTH

    Jorma Rissanen

  • Stochastic Complexity In Statistical Inquiry

    Jorma Rissanen

  • The minimum description length principle in coding and modeling

    A. Barron;J. Rissanen;Bin Yu

  • Universal coding, information, prediction, and estimation

    J. Rissanen

  • Stochastic Complexity and Modeling

    Jorma Rissanen

  • SLIQ: A Fast Scalable Classifier for Data Mining

    Manish Mehta;Rakesh Agrawal;Jorma Rissanen

  • Fisher information and stochastic complexity

    J.J. Rissanen

  • A universal data compression system

    J. Rissanen

  • Universal modeling and coding

    J. Rissanen;G. Langdon

  • Generalized kraft inequality and arithmetic coding

    J. J. Rissanen

  • Recursive estimation of mixed autoregressive-moving average order

    E. J. Hannan;J. Rissanen

  • Compression of Black-White Images with Arithmetic Coding

    G. Langdon;J. Rissanen

  • Information and complexity in statistical modeling

    J. Rissanen

  • Information and Complexity in Statistical Modeling

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  • Applications of universal context modeling to lossless compression of gray-scale images

    M.J. Weinberger;J.J. Rissanen;R.B. Arps

  • A universal finite memory source

    M.J. Weinberger;J.J. Rissanen;M. Feder

  • MDL-based decision tree pruning

    Manish Mehta;Jorma Rissanen;Rakesh Agrawal

  • Algorithms for triangular decomposition of block Hankel and Toeplitz matrices with application to factoring positive matrix polynomials

    J. Rissanen

  • MDL denoising

    J. Rissanen

  • Complexity of strings in the class of Markov sources

    J. Rissanen

Frequent Co-Authors

Bin Yu
Bin Yu University of California, Berkeley
Jaakko Astola
Jaakko Astola Tampere University
Thomas Kailath
Thomas Kailath Stanford University
Wray Buntine
Wray Buntine VinUniversity
Meir Feder
Meir Feder Tel Aviv University
Lennart Ljung
Lennart Ljung Linköping University
Aniruddha Datta
Aniruddha Datta Texas A&M University
Athina P. Petropulu
Athina P. Petropulu Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Terence P. Speed
Terence P. Speed Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Satoru Miyano
Satoru Miyano Tokyo Medical and Dental University

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