James L. Flanagan

James L. Flanagan
Born(1925-08-26)August 26, 1925
Greenwood, Mississippi
DiedAugust 25, 2015(2015-08-25) (aged 89)
Warren Township, New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
AwardsASA Gold Medal (1986)
IEEE Edison Medal (1986)
Marconi Prize (1992)
National Medal of Science (1996)
IEEE Medal of Honor (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering

James Loton Flanagan (August 26, 1925 – August 25, 2015) was an American electrical engineer. He was Rutgers University's vice president for research until 2004. He was also director of Rutgers' Center for Advanced Information Processing and the Board of Governors Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is known for co-developing adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) with P. Cummiskey and Nikil Jayant at Bell Labs.[1]

  1. ^ P. Cummiskey, N. S. Jayant, and J. L. Flanagan, "Adaptive quantization in differential PCM coding of speech," Bell Syst. Tech. J., vol. 52, pp. 1105—1118, Sept. 1973.