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Another passing in my college lineage. Studied under Glem Langdon (passed a few years back), Huffman (a few years prior to that), I recall Shannon passing. Gl
by jmspring 10y ago
Another passing in my college lineage. Studied under Glem Langdon (passed a few years back), Huffman (a few years prior to that), I recall Shannon passing.
Glen Langdon and David Huffman I knew from UC Santa Cruz. Shannon and Fano, I only heard stories about. Jorma Rissanen is still alive at the age of 98.
Pillars in compression and information theory.
- jmspring 10y agoAnd of course Huffman's breakthrough came while taking a class from Robert Fano - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huffman_coding One of my favorite memories of David was how he got grumpy about being best known for that term paper. He had done much more. (Sorry for side track memory)
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