Stephen O. Rice
Stephen "Steve" Oswald Rice (November 29, 1907 – November 18, 1986) was a pioneer in the related fields of information theory, communications theory, and telecommunications.[1][2]
Biography
Rice was born in Shedds, Oregon (later renamed Shedd).
He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State University and did graduate work at Caltech and at Columbia University. He worked for nearly forty years at Bell Labs.[3] At Bell Labs, Rice discovered the Rice distribution and Rice's formula. In 1957–58 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University.
His paper “Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise”, published in the Bell System Technical Journal divided over two issues,[4][5] is considered as a classic reference in its field.[1][2]
He died in La Jolla, California.
Awards and honors
- He was elected to member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1977.[6]
- In 1983 he was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.[7]
- The IEEE Communications Society named a paper prize after him: the Stephen O. Rice Prize for best paper in the field of communications theory.[8]
References
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| Preceded by | IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1983 |
Succeeded by Andrew Viterbi |
