Gottfried Ungerboeck

Name: Gottfried Ungerboeck

Born: March 15, 1940, in Vienna, Austria

Computer-related contributions

• Austrian communications engineer. He worked on digital signal processing and switching systems, information theory and communication.
• He invented trellis coded modulation among many contributions to the theory of data transmission.

Significant publications

• Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society (1998).
• Australia Prize (1997).
• Marconi Prize (1996).
• IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1994).
• IEEE Fellow (1985).
• IBM Fellow (1984).