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Born: 29 November 1907
Died: 18 November 1986
Stephen O. Rice was born November 29, 1907, in Shedds, Oregon. He received the B. S. degree in electrical engineering from Oregon State College, Corvallis, in 1929 and carried out graduate work at California Institute of Technology and at Columbia University. In 1961 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from Oregon State College.
Following his graduate study, he joined Bell Telephone Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. From 1930 until 1968, Dr. Rice served as a consultant on transmission engineering and carried out research in communication theory. From 1968 until his retirement in 1972, he served as Head of the Communications Analysis Research Department where he was concerned with various aspects of communication theory, particularly those areas involving random phenomena and noise. After he retired from his long career at Bell Labs, he was a research physicist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Rice was one of the giants in the development of communication theory. His career was marked by extraordinary technical contributions to the scientific basis of telecommunications. His more than 60 papers included major contributions in the fields of noise theory, frequency modulation, nonlinear systems, and communication theory. To these could be added significant work in such areas as scattering from rough surfaces, propagation, traffic theory, transmission and wave-guide theory, and mathematics.
Dr. Rice's paper on "Mathematical Analysis of Random Noise," published in 1944 and 1945, is a classic in its field. It has had immense scientific and engineering influence not only on electrical communications, but also on other fields of engineering where random processes are important. In addition to his engineering achievements, Dr. Rice proved himself to be an exceedingly able mathematician and made many contributions to applied mathematics as a spin- off from his engineering investigations.
Dr. Rice was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE. During 1958 he served as a Gordon McKay Visiting Lecturer in Applied Physics at Harvard University. He was the recipient of the 1965 Mervin J. Kelly Award of the IEEE for his outstanding contributions in the field of communications and in 1974 received the Outstanding Contribution Award of the IEEE National Telecommunications Conference.
From the outset, Dr. Rice's work was characterized by depth, breadth, and an uncanny ability of getting directly to the essence of the engineering problem of interest Common threads running throughout his work include applications of probability and random process theory, electromagnetic theory, nonlinear theory, special functions, and asymptotic methods. Dr. Rice won the 1983 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal "For his contributions to the fundamental understanding of communications systems and to the underlying mathematics, and for inspiring younger scientists and engineers. "
Dr. Rice's work had an extended influence through the younger
research workers to whom he has taught his methods. He and his wife,
Inez, had one son and two daughters. Dr. Rice passed away on 18
November 1986.
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Stephen 0. Rice was born November 29, 1907,
in Shedds, Oregon. He received the B. S.
degree in electrical engineering from Oregon
State College, Corvallis, in 1929 and carried out
graduate work at California Institute of
Technology and at Columbia University. In 1961
he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science
from Oregon State College. Following his
graduate study, he joined Bell Telephone
Laboratories as a Member of Technical Staff. From 1930
until 1968, Dr. Rice served Bell Labs as a
consultant on transmission engineering and
carried out research in communication theory.
From 1968 until his retirement in 1972, he served as
Head of the Communications Analysis Research
Department where he was concerned with various
aspects of communication theory, particularly those
areas involving random phenomena and noise.
Since 1972 he has been a research physicist in
the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of
California, San Diego. Dr. Rice
has been one of the giants in the development of
communication theory. His career has been
marked by extraordinary technical
contributions to the scientific basis of
telecommunications. His more than 60 papers
have included major contributions in the fields of
noise theory, frequency modulation, nonlinear
systems, and communication theory. To these
could be added significant work in such areas as
scattering from rough surfaces, propagation, traffic
theory, transmission and wave-guide theory,
and mathematics. Dr.
Rice's paper on "Mathematical Analysis of Random
Noise," published in 1944 and 1945, is a
classic in its field. It has had immense
scientific and engineering influence not only on
electrical communications, but also on other
fields of engineering where random processes
are important In addition to his engineering
achievements, Dr. Rice has proven himself to
be an exceedingly able mathematician and has
made many contributions to applied mathematics as a
spin- off from his engineering investigations. Dr. Rice
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
and is a Fellow of the IEEE. During 1958 he
served as a Gordon McKay Visiting Lecturer in
Applied Physics at Harvard University. He was the
recipient of the 1965 Mervin J. Kelly Award of
the IEEE for his outstanding contributions in
the field of communications and in 1974 received the
Outstanding Contribution Award of the IEEE National
Telecommunications Conference. From the
outset, Dr. Rice's work has been characterized by
depth, breadth, and an uncanny ability of getting
directly to the essence of the engineering
problem of interest Common threads running
throughout his work include applications of
probability and random process theory,
electromagnetic theory, nonlinear theory, special
functions, and asymptotic methods. Dr.
Rice's work has had an extended influence through
the younger research workers to whom he has
taught his methods. He and his wife, Inez,
have one son, two married daughters and six
grandchildren. (Editor's Note: Dr. Rice passed
away on 18 November 1986.) Dr. Rice
won the 1983 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal "For
his contributions to the fundamental
understanding of communications systems and to
the underlying mathematics, and for inspiring
younger scientists and engineers. " From the
1983 IEEE Annual Awards Presentation Brochure