PISCATAWAY, NJ – Peter Franaszek will receive the 2009 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal June 25 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony.
 
The award recognizes Franaszek’s work in run-length constrained channel coding for magnetic and optical storage. The technology is used in digital recording and communications systems. It puts limitations on the sequence of data streams, allowing clock synchronization and fast data synchronization.
 
Franaszek research focused on determining fundamental aspects of constrained codes and developing algorithms for construction. He was the first to develop practical methods for run-length limited codes.