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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal “For fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting codes and to the design of deep space telecommunication systems.”
  • 2004 - IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award

Overview

Robert J. McEliece was affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the fields of information theory and telecommunications, with a particular focus on the theory and practice of error-correcting codes. Their work played a role in advancing deep space telecommunication systems.

McEliece's research earned them notable recognition in their discipline. They received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2009, with a citation acknowledging their fundamental contributions to error-correcting codes and deep space communication design. Earlier, in 2004, they were honored with the IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award.

No records of their recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, or specific fields and subfields of study were documented in the source data.

Best Publications

  • A Public-Key Cryptosystem Based On Algebraic Coding Theory

    R. J. McEliece

  • On the inherent intractability of certain coding problems (Corresp.)

    E. Berlekamp;R. McEliece;H. van Tilborg

  • The capacity of the Hopfield associative memory

    Robert J. McEliece;Edward C. Posner;Eugene R. Rodemich;Santosh S. Venkatesh

  • Turbo decoding as an instance of Pearl's "belief propagation" algorithm

    R.J. McEliece;D.J.C. MacKay;Jung-Fu Cheng

  • The generalized distributive law

    Srinivas M. Aji;Robert J. McEliece

  • The theory of information and coding

    Robert J. McEliece

  • On sharing secrets and Reed-Solomon codes

    R. J. McEliece;D. V. Sarwate

  • New upper bounds on the rate of a code via the Delsarte-MacWilliams inequalities

    R. McEliece;E. Rodemich;H. Rumsey;L. Welch

  • Finite Fields for Computer Scientists and Engineers

    Robert J. McEliece

  • Channels with block interference

    R. McEliece;W. Stark

  • On the BCJR trellis for linear block codes

    R.J. McEliece

  • Channel assignment in cellular radio

    K.N. Sivarajan;R.J. McEliece;J.W. Ketchum

  • Transfer function bounds on the performance of turbo codes

    D. Divsalar;S. Dolinar;F. Pollara;R. J. Mceliece

  • On the decoder error probability for Reed - Solomon codes (Corresp.)

    R. McEliece;L. Swanson

  • Weights of irreducible cyclic codes

    Leonard D. Baumert;Robert J. McEliece

  • Practical codes for photon communication

    R. McEliece

  • The trellis complexity of convolutional codes

    R.J. McEliece;Wei Lin

  • Effective free distance of turbo codes

    D. Divsalar;R. J. McEliece

  • Coding theorems for turbo code ensembles

    Hui Jin;R.J. McEliece

  • Dynamic channel assignment in cellular radio

    K.N. Sivarajan;R.J. McEliece;J.W. Ketchum

  • On the decoder error probability for Reed-Solomon codes

    Robert J. McEliece;Laif Swanson

Frequent Co-Authors

Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar
Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar University of California, Davis
Dariush Divsalar
Dariush Divsalar Jet Propulsion Lab
Alexander Vardy
Alexander Vardy University of California, San Diego
Wayne E. Stark
Wayne E. Stark University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Andrew M. Odlyzko
Andrew M. Odlyzko University of Minnesota
Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi California Institute of Technology
Michelle Effros
Michelle Effros California Institute of Technology
Sergio Verdu
Sergio Verdu Princeton University
Holger Boche
Holger Boche Technical University of Munich

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