Allen Gersho is a professor emeritus at

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who made significant contributions in the area of

signal compression Signal compression is the use of various techniques to increase the quality or quantity of signal parameters transmitted through a given telecommunications channel. Types of signal compression include: *Bandwidth compression *Data compression *Dyn ...

and

speech coding Speech coding is an application of data compression of digital audio signals containing speech. Speech coding uses speech-specific parameter estimation using audio signal processing techniques to model the speech signal, combined with generic da ...

. Gersho received his undergraduate degree in

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in 1960. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1963. From 1963 until 1980, he was a member of the technical staff in the research division of AT&T Bell Labs before joining UCSB as a professor in 1980. He took early retirement from UCSB in 1999 and was CEO of SignalCom, Inc from 1996 till 2000 when the company was sold to Microsoft. Gersho co-authored a text book with Robert Gray on

vector quantization Vector quantization (VQ) is a classical quantization technique from signal processing that allows the modeling of probability density functions by the distribution of prototype vectors. It was originally used for data compression. It works by di ...

that has become a standard reference for that topic.

Awards

Gersho is an

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and the recipient of several awards and honors and in particular he was awarded the 2007

IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award The IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award is a Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers#Technical field awards, Technical Field Award presented by the IEEE for an outstanding contribution to the advancement of speech a ...

References

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