About Alain Glavieux
Lived 1949 – 2004 (aged 55). Alain Glavieux was a French computer scientist and engineer.
Glavieux is 2nd from r to l Alain Glavieux (; 4 July 1949, Paris – 25 September 2004) was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.
Glavieux received the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society together with Berrou and Thitimajshima in 1998, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal together with Berrou in 2003, and the French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom award in 2003.
He died on 25 September 2004 at the age of 55 from illness.
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Who was Alain Glavieux?
French electical engineer (1949–2004)
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Alain Glavieux was born on 4 July 1949 in Paris.
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Alain Glavieux died on 25 September 2004 in Brest.
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Alain Glavieux was a computer scientist and engineer.
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Alain Glavieux was French.
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