Claude Berrou

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Claude Berrou (born September 23, 1951) is a French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne. He is the coinventor with Alain Glavieux and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes.

In 2003 he received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal and the Marconi Prize in 2005.