Background
Ahlswede, Rudolf was born on September 15, 1938 in Germany.
mathematician university professor computer scientist
Ahlswede, Rudolf was born on September 15, 1938 in Germany.
Born in Dielmissen, Germany, he studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy. He wrote his Doctor of Philosophy thesis in 1966, at the University of Göttingen, with the topic "Contributions to the Shannon information theory in case of non-stationary channels".
He dedicated himself in his further career to information theory and became one of the leading representatives of this area worldwide. In 1977, he joined and hold a Professorship at the University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. He has been awarded this prize twice.
The prize went only five times to scientists from outside the United States of America. In 2000, Rudolf Ahlswede, Ning Cai, Shuo-Yen Robert Li,and R. West. Yeung published a paper "Network Information Flow" in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Information Theory, VOL. 46, November. 4, JULY 2000, this is the beginning of a new theory known as Network coding.
Rudolf Ahlswede died on December 18, 2010, at the age of 72.
Member of European Academy of Sciences.