David Slepian

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[[1]]David Slepian (June 30, 1923 – November 29, 2007) was an American mathematician. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1949, for a dissertation in physics. Later he worked at the Mathematics Research Center at Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he pioneered work in algebraic coding theory. He also proved the possibility of singular detection, a perhaps unintuitive result. He is also known for discovering a fundamental result in distributed source coding called Slepian-Wolf coding with Jack Keil Wolf. He was awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1974, and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 1981.

There is a memorial website with both written and spoken commentary of contemporary mathematicians and collaborators on David's Slepian's work: http://donslepian.com/DavidSlepian/ .

Awards
Preceded by Richard R. Hough	IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1981	Succeeded by Harold Rosen