Turbo Coding

When the 50th anniversary of the birth of Information Theory was celebrated at the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory in Boston, there was a great deal of reflection on the the year 1993 as a critical year. As the years pass and more perspective is gained, it is a fairly safe bet that we will view 1993 as the year when the "early years" of error control coding came to an end. This was the year in which Berrou, Glavieux and Thitimajshima presented "Near Shannon Limit Err...