慕工电子系Ralf Koetter教授的追悼会

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慕工电子系教授Ralf Koetter因罹患癌症，英年早逝．院系决定追悼会于２月５日上午十一点在慕尼黑Dom-Pedro-Str.和Landshuter Allee交叉口的St. Theresia Kirche举行．


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Professor Ralf Koetter passed away (February 02, 2009)
8 c. r5 [' N- I7 SIt is our sad duty to inform you that our dear Ralf Koetter passed away in the morning of February 2.
We have lost an inspiring and inspired member and leader of our community, a great colleague and a true friend.
) W: q! ^3 Y! m2 N& {# t6 jOur thoughts are with his wife Nuala and his son Finn.
2 ?7 O& T4 h0 D  o- d6 ?/ S( O# pFuneral Mass for Professor Ralf Koetter (February 03, 2009)
* r  x6 G2 H4 J" |2 sDear friends and colleagues,
The funeral mass for our dear Ralf Koetter will be on Thursday, Feb. 5th, at 11am at the St. Theresia Kirche in Munich at the corner of Dom-Pedro-Str. and Landshuter Allee. The burial will be in Kronberg, the town where he spent his childhood, on Friday, Feb. 6th, at 10am. The kind and inspiring personality of Ralf Kötter has touched the hearts and minds of all of us who had the pleasure to meet and work with him. Remembrances to his beloved wife and son can be left on this webpage. An article in memory of Ralf Kötter by his colleagues at UIUC can be found here.
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1 \! x* @( u) d% K4 B* B4 DRalf received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Linkoeping University, Sweden. After short appointments as a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Laboratory in San Jose, California (1996-1997), visiting assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1997) and visiting scientist at CNRS in Sophia Antipolis, France (1998), Ralf joined our faculty in ECE at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999. He was also a researcher in the Coordinated Science Lab.


! m$ v5 [1 V9 [6 \While a junior faculty member in our department, Ralf's vibrant personality and keen intellect enabled him to forge many strong relationships with colleagues throughout the department and across the university in areas of information theory, circuits, communications, signal processing, imaging, and cryptography. Ralf's tenure at Illinois ended in 2006, when he joined the faculty of the Technische Universität München as the head of the Institute for Communications Engineering.
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( S$ E4 K$ ]' d% GIn the years 1999-2001, he served as associate editor for coding theory & techniques for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. In 2003, he concluded a term as associate editor for coding theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He also served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2003 to 2008.

Ralf's research encompassed a number of themes relating to the use of information theory and mathematics for the study of error-correcting codes and communication systems. He had a rare talent among researchers that enabled him to understand the very heart of a research problem, at its most fundamental levels, through which he was able to make many seminal contributions.

Ralf began his career in algebraic coding theory and was among the early researchers to develop and exploit graph theory for the creation and study of error control codes on graphs. His work on so-called factor graphs deepened the understanding of iterative algorithms and led to their widespread use in signal processing and communication systems. As a co-developer of a method for the soft-decoding of Reed-Solomon codes, Ralf received the 2004 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society. His work on "turbo equalization" was at the forefront of over a decade of research in this area and earned a Best Paper Award from the Signal Processing Society for his 2004 paper.
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More recently, Ralf had focused on a new class of error-control coding problems related to coding over networks, an area that has received tremendous interest both from the research as well as the popular science communities.

His research has been recognized with numerous additional awards, including an IBM Invention Achievement Award in 1997, an NSF CAREER Award in 2000, an IBM Partnership Award in 2001, and the University of Illinois College of Engineering XEROX award for faculty research in 2006.
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少林和尚在柏林

哀悼！

99朵玫瑰

默哀！

qyl

说得好，还要注意身体！


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再次哀悼！ 孩子们都挺好，好好学习！
6 `6 I2 U. u  w" @亲亲猫咪 发表于 8.2.2009 15:27

汇源果汁

哀悼！

亲亲猫咪

再次哀悼！ 孩子们都挺好，好好学习！

miele

追悼会的时候才听说他那时候身体就不行了，还一定要来教课，

人特好的教授，对中国学生非常好

再次哀悼！
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俺才看到呀，昨天下午还有考试，在学校也没有听谁说过呢。vordiplom还上过他的课，后来在楼道里碰到的时候，看到他理了个光头，还想说，教授也挺新潮的。还在楼道里和他瞎聊几句了。

哀悼下，觉得挺可惜的，人挺好 ...
pippo 发表于 6.2.2009 11:07

光头和尚

悼念，南无比托佛！！

qyl

默哀中！

（beson和五香版大能不能给帖子加个亮？）

luguo

默哀