Tadao Kasami (嵩忠雄, Kasami Tadao, April 12, 1930 – March 18, 2007) was a Japanese information theorist who made significant contributions to error correcting codes.
He was the earliest to publish the key ideas for the CYK algorithm,[1] separately discovered by Daniel Younger (1967) and John Cocke (1970).
Kasami was born in Kobe, Japan, and studied electrical engineering at Osaka University, where he received his B.E.
[2] Kasami was an IEEE Fellow,[3] and received the 1987 Achievement Award from the Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communications Engineers of Japan and the 1999 IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award.
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