Robert G. Gallager
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Robert Gray Gallager | |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Information theory |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Elias |
Doctoral students | Muriel Médard Elwyn Berlekamp David Tse Erdal Arıkan |
Robert Gray Gallager (born May 29, 1931) is an American electrical engineer known for his work on
Gallager was elected a member of the
He received the
Biography
Gallager received the B.S.E.E. degree from the
Gallager's 1960 Sc.D. thesis, on low-density parity-check codes, was published by the MIT Press as a monograph in 1963.[4] The codes, which remained useful over 50 years, are sometimes called "Gallager codes".[5] An abbreviated version appeared in January 1962 in the IRE Transactions on Information Theory and was republished in the 1974 IEEE Press volume, Key Papers in The Development of Information Theory, edited by
Gallager consulted for
In the mid-1970s, Gallager's research focus shifted to data networks, focusing on distributed algorithms, routing, congestion control, and random access techniques. Data Networks, Prentice Hall, published in 1988, with second edition 1992, co-authored with Dimitri Bertsekas, helped provide a conceptual foundation for this field.
In the 1990s, Gallager's interests shifted back to information theory and to
Over the years, Gallager has taught and mentored many graduate students, many of whom are now themselves leading researchers in their fields. He received the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching Award for 1993. In 1999 he received the Harvey Prize from the American Society for the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.[7] In 2020 he was awarded the Japan Prize.[8]
Gallager's textbook, Principles of Digital Communication was published by Cambridge University Press in 2008.
Gallager was President of the
Personal life
Gallager has 3 children, 4 stepchildren, 7 grandchildren, 10 step grandchildren and 3 great step children. He is married to Marie Gallager.[citation needed]
References
- IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved February 20, 2011.
- ^ "Robert Gallager". Information Theory Society. IEEE. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Robert Gallager". Member profile. IEEE Information Theory Society. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ Robert G. Gallager (1963). Low Density Parity Check Codes (PDF). Monograph, M.I.T. Press. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ Larry Hardesty (January 21, 2010). "Explained: Gallager codes". MIT News. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- IEEE. Archived from the original(PDF) on June 29, 2011. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
- ^ a b Dave Forney. "Robert G. Gallager Wins the 1999 Harvey Prize" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 17, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2013.
- ^ Japan Prize 2020
External links
- Media related to Robert G. Gallager at Wikimedia Commons
- Biography from the IEEE History Center.
- Marconi Fellow biography
- Robert G. Gallager at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Home page at MIT.
- Publications from Google Scholar.
- Robert G. Gallager at DBLP Bibliography Server