W. Wesley Peterson

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W. Wesley Peterson
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
AwardsJapan Prize
Claude E. Shannon Award
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics, computer science

William Wesley Peterson (April 22, 1924 – May 6, 2009) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He was best known for designing the cyclic redundancy check (CRC),[1] for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999.[2]

Peterson was born on April 22, 1924, in

networks. As well as the Japan Prize in 1999,[2][8] he was awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1981,[4] and the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984.[4] In 2007, two years before Peterson's death, Intel added crc32 to the SSE4.2 instruction set of the x86-64 architecture.[9]

Peterson finished 16th in the 2005 Honolulu Marathon for males ages 80 to 84.

Honolulu, Hawaii survived by five children from two different marriages, his wife, and several grandchildren.[3]

References

  1. ^ Peterson, W. W. & Brown, D. T. (January 1961). "Cyclic Codes for Error Detection". Proceedings of the IRE. 49: 228–235.
    S2CID 51666741
    .     – The original paper on CRCs
  2. ^ a b c "Dr. W. Wesley Peterson, 1999 (15th) Japan Prize Laureate". Japan Prize Foundation. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Obituaries, Dr. William Wesley Peterson". The Honolulu Advertiser. May 17, 2009. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  4. ^ a b c d The Newsletter of the Colleges of Arts & Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Summer 1999, Volume 5, Number One Retrieved November 24, 2011
  5. ^ Peterson, W. W. & Weldon, E. J. (1971). Error Correcting Codes, Revised 2nd Edition. MIT Press.
    ISBN 0-262-16039-0
    .
  6. doi:10.1109/TIT.1954.1057460
    .
  7. ^ Peterson, W. W. (June 1974). Introduction to Programming Languages. Prentice Hall College Div.
    ISBN 978-0-13-493486-0
    .
  8. ^ Mary Adamski (December 16, 1998). "W. Wesley Peterson receives Japan Prize for work in digital error control". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. Retrieved November 24, 2011.
  9. ^ "Intel® SSE4 Programming Reference" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 5, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
  10. ^ "Honolulu Marathon Updates – Results by division – Males 80 to 84". Honolulu Star-Bulletin. December 11, 2005. Retrieved November 24, 2011.

External links

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