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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">American computer scientist</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">David A. Huffman</div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1925-08-09</span>)</span>August 9, 1925<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Ohio" title="Ohio">Ohio</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">October 7, 1999<span style="display:none">(1999-10-07)</span> (aged 74)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/Santa_Cruz,_California" title="Santa Cruz, California">Santa Cruz, California</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IEEE_Richard_W._Hamming_Medal" title="IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal">IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal</a> (1999)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Information_theory" title="Information theory">Information theory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coding_theory" title="Coding theory">Coding theory</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/4804">The Synthesis of Sequential Switching Circuits</a></i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1953)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doctoral_advisor" title="Doctoral advisor">Doctoral advisor</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Samuel_H._Caldwell" title="Samuel H. Caldwell">Samuel H. Caldwell</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>David Albert Huffman</b> (August 9, 1925 – October 7, 1999) was an American pioneer in <a href="/wiki/Computer_science" title="Computer science">computer science</a>, known for his <a href="/wiki/Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_SA_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-profile_SA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UCSC_Obi_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UCSC_Obi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also one of the pioneers in the field of <a href="/wiki/Mathematical_origami" class="mw-redirect" title="Mathematical origami">mathematical origami</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_A._Huffman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Huffman earned his bachelor's degree in <a href="/wiki/Electrical_engineering" title="Electrical engineering">electrical engineering</a> from <a href="/wiki/Ohio_State_University" title="Ohio State University">Ohio State University</a> in 1944. Then, he served two years as an officer in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a>. He returned to Ohio State to earn his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1949. In 1953, he earned his <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Science" title="Doctor of Science">Doctor of Science</a> in electrical engineering at the <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> (MIT), with the thesis <i>The Synthesis of Sequential Switching Circuits</i>, advised by <a href="/wiki/Samuel_H._Caldwell" title="Samuel H. Caldwell">Samuel H. Caldwell</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-profile_SA_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-profile_SA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UCSC_Obi_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UCSC_Obi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MathGenealogy_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MathGenealogy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_A._Huffman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Huffman joined the faculty at MIT in 1953. In 1967, he joined the faculty of <a href="/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz" title="University of California, Santa Cruz">University of California, Santa Cruz</a> and helped found its Computer Science Department, where he served as chair from 1970 to 1973. He retired in 1994.<sup id="cite_ref-UCSC_Obi_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UCSC_Obi-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Huffman is best known for <a href="/wiki/Huffman_coding" title="Huffman coding">Huffman coding</a>, which he published while a ScD student at MIT in 1952. Huffman came up with the algorithm when a professor offered students to either take the traditional final exam, or improve a leading algorithm for data compression.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Huffman reportedly was more proud of his work "The Synthesis of Sequential Switching Circuits,"<sup id="cite_ref-profile_SA_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-profile_SA-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was the topic of his 1953 MIT thesis (an abridged version of which was published in the Journal of the Franklin Institute in 1954.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_A._Huffman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>1955: The <a href="/wiki/Louis_E._Levy_Medal" class="mw-redirect" title="Louis E. Levy Medal">Louis E. Levy Medal</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Franklin_Institute" title="Franklin Institute">Franklin Institute</a> for his doctoral thesis on sequential <a href="/wiki/Switching_circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Switching circuit">switching circuits</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MathGenealogy_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MathGenealogy-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-LevyMedal_Laureates_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LevyMedal_Laureates-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1973: The <a href="/wiki/W._Wallace_McDowell_Award" title="W. Wallace McDowell Award">W. Wallace McDowell Award</a> from the IEEE Computer Society.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1981: Charter recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Computer_Pioneer_Award" title="Computer Pioneer Award">Computer Pioneer Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Computer_Society" title="IEEE Computer Society">IEEE Computer Society</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1998: A Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Information_Theory_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="IEEE Information Theory Society">IEEE Information Theory Society</a>, for <i>"the invention of the Huffman minimum-length lossless data-compression code"</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>1999: The <a href="/wiki/IEEE_Richard_W._Hamming_Medal" title="IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal">IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=David_A._Huffman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-profile_SA-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-profile_SA_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-profile_SA_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-profile_SA_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFGary_Stix1991" class="citation magazine cs1"><a href="/wiki/Gary_Stix" title="Gary Stix">Gary Stix</a> (September 1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffmancoding.com/my-family/my-uncle/scientific-american">"Profile: Information Theorist David A. 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