David Huffman

Updated: 12/30/2019 by Computer Hope
David Huffman

Name: David Albert Huffman

Born: August 9, 1925, in Ohio

Death: October 7, 1999 (Age: 74)

Computer-related contributions

  • Programmer and pioneer in computer science, known for his work on developing Huffman coding in 1952.

Honors and awards

  • The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal (1999).
  • A Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society, for "the invention of the Huffman minimum-length lossless data-compression code" (1998).
  • Charter recipient of the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society (1981).
  • The W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society (1973).
  • The Louis E. Levy Medal from the Franklin Institute for his doctoral thesis on sequential switching circuits (1955).