Abstract

In 2016, the IEEE conferred its Medal of Honor on G. David Forney, Jr., “for pioneering contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and the development of reliable high-speed data communications.” The cited combination of theory and practice is rare: How does someone reduce a mathematical theory-in this case, Claude Shannon's information theory 1 -to practice?

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