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IEEE Milestone Dedication Ceremony for The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)

May 22 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

May 22, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Friend Center, Room 101

On Thursday, May 22, 2025, at 4:00pm, the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department will host an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) “Milestone” Ceremony in Friend Center Room 101.  The ceremony will honor the invention and implementation of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) by inventors Princeton Professor John Tukey and J.W. Cooley of IBM which was a key advance in signal and information processing.

ECE Professor Emeritus Ruby Lee, Dr. Harold Stone of NEC Research Labs, and Dr. James Wynn of IBM have led this commemoration effort.

Sponsored by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Details

Date:
May 22
Time:
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
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