Claude Berrou

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Claude Berrou is a French engineer and researcher best known for inventing turbo codes, a breakthrough in error-correcting coding that revolutionized digital communications.

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instanceOf electrical engineer
engineer
person
researcher
affiliation Télécom Bretagne
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
alive true
awardReceived L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications
surface form: France Télécom Prize

Grand Prix of the French Academy of Sciences
surface form: Grand Prix France Télécom de l’Académie des sciences

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
Marconi Prize
citizenship France
contribution development of near-Shannon-limit error-correcting codes
revolutionizing error-correcting coding for digital communications
countryOfWork France
education École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne
field digital communications
error-correcting codes
information theory
fieldOfResearch channel coding
iterative decoding
turbo decoding
gender male
impact enabled practical communication systems operating close to Shannon limit
influenced design of capacity-approaching codes
modern coding theory
influencedField data transmission systems
satellite communications
wireless communications
invention turbo codes
inventionDate early 1990s (turbo codes)
knownFor invention of turbo codes
turbo codes
work in channel coding
languageOfWorkOrName French
name Claude Berrou self-link
nationality French
notableIdea iterative decoding of concatenated codes
notableWork turbo coding scheme
occupation engineer
professor
researcher
presentIn digital communication standards
standardizationImpact turbo codes adopted in 3G mobile standards
turbo codes adopted in satellite communication standards
turbo codes used in deep-space communication systems

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Alain Glavieux notableCollaborator Claude Berrou
Claude Berrou name Claude Berrou self-link