Education
He received his Bachelor of Science from Brown University in 1962, and his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1966.
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Peter Franaszek
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Peter A. Franaszek is an American information theorist, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow, a research staff member emeritus at the International Business Machines Corporation T.J. Watson Research Center and a former member of the International Business Machines Corporation Academy of Technology.
Career
His work was mainly on the representation of information for storage and transmission, and the placement and movement of such information in computer systems Specific areas include constrained coding, compression algorithms, I/O architectures, switching networks, disk defragmentation algorithms, concurrency control techniques, operating system schedulers, and compression techniques and architectures for systems with memory compression. Franaszek"s coding research determined fundamental aspects of constrained coding, and obtained algorithms for code construction.
His work served as a basis for key components in the proliferation of disk drives, compact disks (CDs), and digital versatile disks (DVDs).
Specific codes he developed have been widely used in commercial data storage and transmission products. His (2,7) RLL code found widespread application in disk drives in the 1980s and later in magnetic and optical recording applications.
Together with Albert Widmer, he designed 8b/10b encoding used in gigabit telecommunication systems
Achievements
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2009: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Richard W. Hamming Medal for his contributions to the theory and practice of run-length limited channel coding for magnetic and optical storage. 2002: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award 1989: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Emanuel R. Piore Award.
Membership
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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United States
Education
Awards
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2009: IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal for his contributions to the theory and practice of run-length limited channel coding for magnetic and optical storage. 2002: ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award 1989: IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award.
The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is presented annually to up to three persons, for outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology.The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal is presented annually to up to three persons, for outstanding achievements in information sciences, information systems and information technology.