Education
He received a Bachelor of Science from Warwick University in 1975, an Master of Science from Oxford in 1976, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Caltech, all in mathematics.
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He received a Bachelor of Science from Warwick University in 1975, an Master of Science from Oxford in 1976, and a Doctor of Philosophy from Caltech, all in mathematics.
He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from American Telephone & Telegraph Company Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences. While at Bell Labs, he co-discovered space–time coding.
His contributions to coding and information theory won the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Information Theory Society Paper Award in 1995 and 1999. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2005, became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012, and won the 2013 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Richard W. Hamming Medal and the 2015 Claude E. Shannon Award.
American Mathematical Society.
