Irving S. Reed

Emeritus Professor

Irving S. Reed was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1944 and 1949, respectively. From 1951 to 1960 he was associated with Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1960 to 1963 he was a senior staff member of the RAND Corporation. Since 1963 he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at USC. He is also a Consultant to RAND and a Director of Adaptive Sensors, Inc.

Research Interests

• Error-Correcting Codes
• Digital Signal Processing
• Number-Theoretic Transforms
• VLSI Implementation of Signal Processing Algorithms
• Radar Detection Theory
• Adaptive Array Signal Processing
• X-ray Tomography

Awards

• 1973 IEEE Fellow.
• 1974 Charles Lee Powell Professor of Computer Engineering.
• 1979 Member, National Academy of Engineering IEEE Centennial Medal.
• 1982 Information Theory Group Shannon Lecturer.
• 1989 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for exceptional contributions to information sciences and systems.

Books

• A Survey of Switching Circuit Theory, Chapter II, McGraw-Hill, 1962.
• Theory and Design of Digital Machines, (with T.C. Bartee and I.L. Lebow), Fourth Lincoln Laboratory Publication, McGraw-Hill, 1962.
• Theorie et Syntheses des Machiens Numerales, with (T.C. Bartee and I.L. Lebow), Dunod, Paris, 1968.

Technical Activities

• Member, American Mathematics Society.
• Member, American Association of Mathematics.
• Member, IEEE Computer Society.
• Member, IEEE Information Theory Society.
• Member, Tau Beta Pi
• Member, Sigma Xi

Recent Ph.D.s

• Ju Sun, November 1987, "Application of a Pruned Trellis for Convolutional Codes."
• Ming-Tang Shih, May 1990, "New VLSI Architectures for Signal Processing and Coding."

Selected Publications

• "Digital SAR Processing Using a Fast Polynominal Transform," IEEE Trans. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, April 1985, with T. Troung, R. Lipes, A. Rubin and S. Butman.
• "A VLSI Design of a Pipeline Reed-Solomon Decoder," IEEE Trans. on Computers, May 1985, with T. Troung, H. Shao and L. Deutsch.

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