Alain Glavieux

Name: Alain Glavieux

Born: July 4, 1949

Death: September 24, 2004 (Age: 55)

Computer-related contributions

• French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne.
• With Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima, co-invented a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes, error-correction codes that forever changed the field of digital communications.

Significant publications

• Glavieux has written or co written, more than 30 papers and the book Communications Numeriques-Introduction.

Honors and awards

• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (2003).
• French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom award (2003).
• Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society.