Mathematician and computer scientist. He was Professor Emeritus (2002) at UC Berkeley's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, having joined the faculty in 1971. He earned BS, MS (1962) and PhD (1964)degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other past service included terms as president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, chairman of the Science Advisory Board for the Institute of Defense Analysis, the governing board of the American Mathematical Society, the Science Advisory Board for Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, MIT Corporation Visiting Committees, and a trustee of two independent high schools. He had 12 patented inventions (now all public domain), mostly dealing with algorithms and devices for error-correction and synchronization. Some of his algorithms for decoding Reed-Solomon codes are widely used on compact discs; others are NASA standards for deep space communications. He has more than 100 publications, including two books on algebraic coding theory and six books on the mathematical theory of combinatorial games. He is survived by his wife Jennifer, a son and two daughters.
Mathematician and computer scientist. He was Professor Emeritus (2002) at UC Berkeley's School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, having joined the faculty in 1971. He earned BS, MS (1962) and PhD (1964)degrees in Electrical Engineering from MIT. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Other past service included terms as president of the IEEE Information Theory Society, chairman of the Science Advisory Board for the Institute of Defense Analysis, the governing board of the American Mathematical Society, the Science Advisory Board for Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories, MIT Corporation Visiting Committees, and a trustee of two independent high schools. He had 12 patented inventions (now all public domain), mostly dealing with algorithms and devices for error-correction and synchronization. Some of his algorithms for decoding Reed-Solomon codes are widely used on compact discs; others are NASA standards for deep space communications. He has more than 100 publications, including two books on algebraic coding theory and six books on the mathematical theory of combinatorial games. He is survived by his wife Jennifer, a son and two daughters.
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