Alain Glavieux
Updated: 12/01/2019 by Computer Hope
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Name: Alain Glavieux
Born: July 4, 1949
Death: September 24, 2004 (Age: 55)
Computer-related contributions
- French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne.
- With Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima, co-invented a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes, error-correction codes that forever changed the field of digital communications.
Significant publications
- Glavieux has written or co written, more than 30 papers and the book Communications Numeriques-Introduction.