Fredric J Harris

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frederic j harris is a professor of Electrical Engineering and CUBIC signal processing chair at San Diego State University and an internationally renowned expert on DSP and Communication Systems. He is also the co-inventor of the Blackman-Harris Filter. He also has extensively published many technical papers, the most famous being the seminal 1978 paper "On the use of Windows for Harmonic Analysis with the Discrete Fourier Transform." He is also the author of the textbook "Multi-rate Signal Processing for Communication Systems" and the Source Coding chapter in Bernard Sklar's textbook on Digital Communications.

Harris received his B.S. from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, his M.S. from San Diego State University and did PhD course work at the University of California, San Diego. He is an absent-mined professor who likes to collect slide-rules, toy trains and other old toys. He also distracts secretaries and editors with spelling his name in lower case letters.