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John Robinson Pierce (March 27, 1910 – April 2, 2002), was an American engineer and author. He did extensive work concerning radio communication, microwave technology, computer music, psychoacoustics, and science fiction. [1] .
John Robinson Pierce (born March 27, 1910, Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.—died April 2, 2002, Sunnyvale, California) was an American communications engineer, scientist, and father of the communications satellite.
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John Robinson Pierce (IRE Student, 1935; Associate, 1938; Senior Member 1945; and Fellow, 1948) made many important contributions to microwave and communications technology during his long career at Bell Laboratories.
Mar 15, 1976 · Among his peers, John R. Pierce is properly appreciated as a creator of complex engineering realities from the most basic of scientific insights. To those of...
Pierce's pioneering work was the catalyst for almost every significant development in space-based telecommunication and satellite technology. During the 1950s, Pierce proposed the foundations for unmanned passive and active communication satellites.
JOHN R. PIERCE. (1910-2002) INTERVIEWED BY HARRIETT LYLE. April 16, 23, and 27, 1979. ARCHIVES. INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Pasadena, California. Subject area. Engineering, electrical. Abstract. An interview in three sessions in April 1979 with John R. Pierce, often referred to as the father of the communications satellite.
Nov 1, 1980 · To give a solid introduction to this burgeoning field, J. R. Pierce has revised his well-received 1961 study of information theory for a second edition. Beginning with the origins of the field, Dr. Pierce follows the brilliant formulations of Claude Shannon and describes such aspects of the subject as encoding and binary digits ...
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