Jorma Rissanen
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Jorma J. Rissanen (born 1932 in Finland) is an information theorist, known for inventing the arithmetic coding technique of lossless data compression, and the minimum description length principle.
An IBM researcher since 1960, Rissanen received his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Helsinki in 1965. Retired from IBM, he is now professor emeritus of Tampere University of Technology, and a fellow of Helsinki Institute for Information Technology. He was awarded the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 1993.
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| NAME | Rissanen, Jorma J. |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Information theorist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Finland |
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