Richard Blahut, (born June 9, 1937) former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, is best known for his work in information theory (e.g. the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm used in rate–distortion theory). He received his PhD Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972.
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9 June 1937 (age 88)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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