Ralph Beebe Blackman
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Ralph Beebe Blackman was an American mathematician and engineer who was among the
pioneers of the information age along with Claude E. Shannon, Hendrik Wade Bode
, and John Tukey
. He worked at Bell Laboratories in the 1960s and authored books on the topic of spectrum estimation.
pioneers of the information age along with Claude E. Shannon, Hendrik Wade Bode
Hendrik Wade Bode
Hendrik Wade Bode , was an American engineer, researcher, inventor, author and scientist], of Dutch ancestry. As a pioneer of modern control theory and electronic telecommunications he revolutionized both the content and methodology of his chosen fields of research.He made important contributions...
, and John Tukey
John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey ForMemRS was an American statistician.- Biography :Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1915, and obtained a B.A. in 1936 and M.Sc. in 1937, in chemistry, from Brown University, before moving to Princeton University where he received a Ph.D...
. He worked at Bell Laboratories in the 1960s and authored books on the topic of spectrum estimation.
Books
- R. B. Blackman and J. W. Tukey, The Measurement of Power Spectra from the point of view of communication engineering, New York, Dover Publications 1958.
- R. B. Blackman, Linear data-smoothing and prediction in theory and practice, Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co. 1965.