Background
Helstrom, Carl Wilhelm was born on February 22, 1925 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Carl Wilhelm Helstrom.
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Written by a highly respected authority and researcher, this volume provides an introduction to signal-detection theory, a subject fundamental to the design of detectors of weak signals in the presence of random noise, and, in particular, to the design of optimal and near-optimal receivers of communication, radar, sonar and optical signals.
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Electrical engineering educator
Helstrom, Carl Wilhelm was born on February 22, 1925 in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Carl Wilhelm Helstrom.
He received the B.S degree in engineering physics from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1947 and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1951.
He is well known in this field for discovering what is now known as the Helstrom measurement, the quantum measurement with minimum error probability for distinguishing one quantum state from another. He has written a textbook which has been widely read by experts in quantum information theory. He authored several other textbooks on signal detection and estimation theory.
From 1944 to 1946 he was a radio technician in the United States. Navy.
From 1951 to 1966 he worked in applied mathematics at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On leave during the 1963-1964 academic year, he lectured in the Department of Engineering, University of California, Los Los Angeles He joined the University of California, San Diego in 1966, where he was Professor, then Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering.
From 1971 to 1973 and 1974 to 1977 he was Chairman of his Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences department, and during the 1973-1974 and 1986-1987 academic years he was Professeur Associé at the Université de Paris-Sud. From 1965 to 1967, Helstrom served as Associate Editor for Detection Theory on the editorial board of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Information Theory.
1967 to 1971 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the same journal.
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With United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1946. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (editor transactions on Information Theory journal 1967-1971, Centennial medal 1984), Optical Society American. Member Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Barbro Elisabet Dahlbom, October 13, 1956. Children: Lars Vilhelm, Nils Stefan.