Bernard Widrow

Bernard Widrow (born December 24, 1929) is a U.S. professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University.[1] He is the co-inventor of the Widrow–Hoff least mean squares filter (LMS) adaptive algorithm with his then doctoral student Ted Hoff.[2] The LMS algorithm led to the ADALINE and MADALINE artificial neural networks and to the backpropagation technique. He made other fundamental contributions to the development of signal processing in the fields of geophysics, adaptive antennas, and adaptive filtering.

Bernard Widrow
Born	December 24, 1929
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology [1]
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical engineering
Institutions	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	William Linvill
Doctoral students	Parham Aarabi Marcian Hoff Richard Mattson Alvy Ray Smith

Publications

• 1965 "A critical comparison of two kinds of adaptive classification networks", K. Steinbuch and B. Widrow, IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, pp. 737–740.
• 1985 B. Widrow and S. D. Stearns. Adaptive Signal Processing. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1985.
• 1994 B. Widrow and E. Walach. Adaptive Inverse Control. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1994.
• 2008 B. Widrow and I. Kollar. Quantization Noise: Roundoff Error in Digital Computation, Signal Processing, Control, and Communications. Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Honors

• Elected Fellow IEEE, 1976[2]
• Elected Fellow AAAS, 1980[2]
• IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984[2]
• IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, 1986[2]
• IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Medal, 1991[2]
• Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, 1995
• IEEE Signal Processing Society Award, 1999
• IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000
• Benjamin Franklin Medal, 2001[3]

References

1. "Widrow's Stanford web page". Information Systems Laboratory, Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University.
2. Andrew Goldstein (1997). "Bernard Widrow Oral History". IEEE Global History Network. IEEE. Retrieved 22 August 2011.
3. Abend, Kenneth (2002). "The 2001 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering presented to Bernard Widrow - Journal of the Franklin Institute - Tom 339, Numer 3 (2002) - Biblioteka Nauki - Yadda". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 3 (339): 283–294. doi:10.1016/S0016-0032(01)00044-8.