Lee Yuk-wing (; April 14, 1904 – November 8, 1989) was a Professor of

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at the

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. He is best known for adapting and popularizing the pioneering work of

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and for his own research on

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Biography

Lee was born in Macau, Portugal, and called “Yuwing” or “YW” by his friends. He was a longtime collaborator of Wiener. After obtaining his doctorate at MIT, he returned to China and taught at Tsinghua University. He invited Wiener there in 1935-1937. In 1946 he came back to MIT as a Visiting Professor and initiated his research on statistical communication theory. He then stayed at MIT for 30 years. John Costas, Harry L. Van Trees, Irwin Jacobs and

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were among his students at MIT. He lived in Belmont, California and died in San Mateo, California.

Publications

* Lee, Y.-W. (1932). ''Synthesis of electrical networks by means of the Fourier transforms of Laguerre's functions'' (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. * Lee, Y.-W. (1950). ''Application of statistical methods to communication problems'' (''Technical Report'' No. 181). Cambridge, MA: Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. * Lee, Y.-W. (1960). ''Statistical theory of communication''. New York: Wiley.

References

* Therrien, C. W. (2002). The Lee-Wiener legacy: Statistical theory of communication. ''IEEE Signal Processing Magazine'', ''19''(6), 33-34.

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* 1904 births 1989 deaths Electrical engineering academics Communication theorists American electrical engineers MIT School of Engineering faculty Tsinghua University faculty 20th-century American engineers American people of Macanese descent Macau scientists {{electronics-stub