Alain Glavieux (; 4 July 1949,

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– 25 September 2004) was a French professor in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called

turbo code In information theory, turbo codes (originally in French ''Turbocodes'') are a class of high-performance forward error correction (FEC) codes developed around 1990–91, but first published in 1993. They were the first practical codes to closely ...

s. Glavieux received the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the

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together with Berrou and Thitimajshima in 1998, the

IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal 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 recipients receive a gold medal, together with a replica in ...

together with Berrou in 2003, and the French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom award in 2003. He died on 25 September 2004 at the age of 55 from illness.

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2004 deaths French electrical engineers Télécom ParisTech alumni French information theorists 1949 births French telecommunications engineers Electrical engineering academics {{France-engineer-stub