James Massey

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James Lee Massey (born in 1934 in Wauseon, Ohio) is an information theorist and cryptographer, Professor Emeritus of Digital Technology at ETH Zurich. His notable work includes the application of the Berlekamp-Massey algorithm to linear codes, the design of the block ciphers IDEA (with Xuejia Lai) and SAFER, and the Massey-Omura cryptosystem (with Jim K. Omura).

Massey received a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1956 from the University of Notre Dame, and was granted an NSF Fellowship. After three years of military service, he began graduate studies in 1959 at MIT, where he concentrated on coding theory and was awarded a Ph.D. in 1962. He returned to Notre Dame, where he taught electrical engineering until 1977. After a brief period at UCLA, Massey accepted a position at ETH Zurich in 1980. He remained there until his retirement in 1998.

[edit] Honors and Awards

• IEEE Fellow, 1971
• Baker Prize, 1987
• Claude E. Shannon Award, 1988
• IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, 1992
• member, National Academy of Engineering

[edit] External links

• James Massey's CV at ETH Zurich
• James Massey's bio at IEEE History Center, written 1992

Awards
Preceded by C. Chapin Cutler, John O. Limb and Arun Netravali	IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1992	Succeeded by Donald Cox

Persondata
NAME	Massey, James Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Information theorist and cryptographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1934
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wauseon, Ohio
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH