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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| Label | Occurrences |
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| Claude Berrou canonical | 4 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
electrical engineer
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engineer ⓘ person ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| affiliation |
Télécom Bretagne
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École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
L.M. Ericsson International Prize in Telecommunications
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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
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revolutionizing error-correcting coding for digital communications ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | France ⓘ |
| education | École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne ⓘ |
| field |
digital communications
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error-correcting codes ⓘ information theory ⓘ |
| fieldOfResearch |
channel coding
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iterative decoding ⓘ turbo decoding ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| impact | enabled practical communication systems operating close to Shannon limit ⓘ |
| influenced |
design of capacity-approaching codes
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modern coding theory ⓘ |
| influencedField |
data transmission systems
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satellite communications ⓘ wireless communications ⓘ |
| invention | turbo codes ⓘ |
| inventionDate | early 1990s (turbo codes) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
invention of turbo codes
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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
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professor ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| presentIn | digital communication standards ⓘ |
| standardizationImpact |
turbo codes adopted in 3G mobile standards
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turbo codes adopted in satellite communication standards ⓘ turbo codes used in deep-space communication systems ⓘ |
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