Peter Elias, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetPeter Elias
pioneer of information theory
Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1923
Place of Birth: New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Date of Death: 07-Dec-2001
Profession: computer scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Peter Elias
- Peter Elias (November 23, 1923 – December 7, 2001) was a pioneer in the field of information theory.
- Born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, he was a member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty from 1953 to 1991.
- In 1955, Elias introduced convolutional codes as an alternative to block codes.
- He also established the binary erasure channel and proposed list decoding of error-correcting codes as an alternative to unique decoding.
Read more at Wikipedia