Alain Glavieux

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Alain Glavieux ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; 4 July 1949, Paris – 25 September 2004) was a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.

Glavieux received the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society together with Berrou and Thitimajshima in 1998,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal together with Berrou in 2003,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the French Academy of Sciences Grand Prix France Telecom award in 2003.

He died on 25 September 2004 at the age of 55 from illness.

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