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| Title of object: |
David Huffman |
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DavidHuffman |
| Type: |
Biography |
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2006-09-16 19:05:14 |
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2006-09-17 00:03:54 |
| Classification: |
msc:01A60 |
| Synonyms: |
David Huffman=David Albert Huffman
David Huffman=David A. Huffman
David Huffman=Dave Huffman |
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\emph{David Albert Huffman} (1925 - 1999) American mathematician, best known for Huffman coding used in many lossless data compression \PMlinkescapetext{schemes}.
Huffman served in the U. S. Navy during World War II as a radar maintenance officer on a destroyer. After the war, he continued his studies at Ohio \PMlinkescapetext{State} University and earned a PhD from MIT in 1953 and joined the faculty there that year. |
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