Alain Glavieux was a French

France

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 professor in electrical engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne

École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne

Telecom Bretagne is one of the top French grande école and a high standard research centre providing high level training in Information Technologies and telecommunications...

. He was the coinventor with Claude Berrou

Claude Berrou

Claude Berrou is a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, now Telecom-Bretagne...

 and Punya Thitimajshima

Punya Thitimajshima

Punya Thitimajshima , a Thai professor in the department of telecommunications engineering at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology at Ladkrabang, is the co-inventor with Claude Berrou and Alain Glavieux of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.Thitimajshima was educated at King...

 of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo code

Turbo code

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Glavieux received the Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society

IEEE Information Theory Society

The IEEE Information Theory Society , formerly the IEEE Information Theory Group, is a professional society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers focused on several aspects of information: its processing, transmission, storage, and usage; and the "foundations of the...

 together with Berrou and Thitimajshima in 1998, the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal together with Berrou in 2003, 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.