Jorma Rissanen


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Jorma J. Rissanen (born 1932 in Finland) is an information theorist, known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression, and the minimum description length principle.

An IBM researcher since 1960, Rissanen received his Ph.D. from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1965. Retired from IBM, he is now professor emeritus of Tampere University of Technology, and a fellow of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. He was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 1993, the Kolmogorov Medal in 2006, and will be presented the IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award in 2009. A Festschrift collection was recently published to honor his 75th birthday.

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Richard W. Hamming Medal

Richard Hamming (1988) · Irving S. Reed (1989) · Dennis Ritchie / Ken Thompson (1990) · Elwyn Berlekamp (1991) · Lotfi Asker Zadeh (1992) · Jorma Rissanen (1993) · Gottfried Ungerboeck (1994) · Jacob Ziv (1995) · Mark Semenovich Pinsker (1996) · Thomas M. Cover (1997) · David D. Clark (1998) · David A. Huffman (1999) · Solomon W. Golomb (2000) · Alexander G. Fraser (2001) · Peter Elias (2002) · Claude Berrou / Alain Glavieux (2003) · Jack Keil Wolf (2004) · Neil Sloane (2005) · Vladimir Levenshtein (2006) · Abraham Lempel (2007) · Sergio Verdu (2008)
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NAME Rissanen, Jorma J.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Information theorist
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Finland
DATE OF DEATH
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