- James Cooley
Dr. James Cooley (born 1926) is an American
mathematician . James William Cooley received a B.A. degree in 1949 fromManhattan College , Bronx, NY, an M.A. degree in 1951 fromColumbia University , New York, NY, and a Ph.D. degree in 1961 in applied mathematics from Columbia University. He was a programmer onJohn von Neumann 's computer at theInstitute for Advanced Study , Princeton, NJ, from 1953 to 1956. He worked on quantum mechanical computations at theCourant Institute , New York University, from 1956 to 1962, when he joined the Research Staff at theIBM Watson Research Center , Yorktown Heights, NY. Upon retirement from IBM in 1991, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering,University of Rhode Island , Kingston, where he served on the faculty of the computer engineering program.His most significant contribution to the world of
mathematics anddigital signal processing is theFast Fourier transform , which he co-developed withJohn Tukey (seeCooley-Tukey FFT algorithm ) while working for the research division ofIBM in 1965.The motivation for it was provided by Dr.
Richard L. Garwin at IBM Watson Research who was concerned about verifying a Nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union for the SALT talks. Garwin thought that if he had a very much faster Fourier Transform he could plant sensors in the ground in countries surrounding the Soviet Union. He suggested the idea of how Fourier transforms could be programmed to be much faster to both Cooley and Tukey. They did the work, the sensors were planted, and he was able to locate nuclear explosions to within 15 kilometers of where they were occurring.J.W. Cooley was a member of the "Digital Signal Processing Committee" of the IEEE, and was later awarded a
fellow ship of IEEE for his work on FFT. In 2002 he received the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal. He considerably contributed to the establishing of terminology in digital signal processing.Publications
* James W. Cooley & John W. Tukey (1965): "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series", Math. Comput. 19, 297–301.
*Cooley, James W., Timothy M. Toolan and Donald W. Tufts. "A Subspace Tracking Algorithm Using the Fast Fourier Transform." IEEE Signal Processing Letters. 11(1):30-32. January 2004.
*Real, Edward C., Donald W. Tufts and James W. Cooley. "Two Algorithms for Fast Approximate Subspace Tracking." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. 47(7):1936-1945. July 1999.
*Tufts, D. W., E. C. Real and J. W. Cooley. "Fast Approximate Subspace Tracking (FAST)." IN: Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. IEEE. 1997. I:547-550.External links
* [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2002kilby.html IEEE 2002 Kilby Medal]
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