W. Wesley Peterson

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William Wesley Peterson, PhD (born April 22, 1924 in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for inventing the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) [1], for which research he was awarded the Japan Prize in 1999.

Peterson is a professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He has co-authored a number of books on the topic of error correcting codes, including the revised 2nd edition of Error Correcting Codes [2] (co-authored with E. J. Weldon). He has also done research and published in the fields of programming languages, systems programming, and networks. As well as the Japan Prize, he was awarded the Claude E. Shannon Award in 1981, and the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984.

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  1. ^ Peterson, W. W. and Brown, D. T. (January 1961). "Cyclic Codes for Error Detection". Proceedings of the IRE 49: 228. doi:10.1109/JRPROC.1961.287814. ISSN 0096-8390.  - The original paper on CRCs
  2. ^ Peterson, W. W. and Weldon, E. J. (1971). Error Correcting Codes, Revised 2nd Edition. MIT Press. ISBN 0262160390. 

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