Alain Glavieux
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Alain Glavieux was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.
Glavieux received an IEEE Golden Jubilee Awards for Technological Innovation in 1998, IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2003, French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom award in 2003.
He died on 25 September 2004 at the age of 55 from illness.
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