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Remembering IBM Researcher Dick Garwin
The IBM Fellow Emeritus and longtime presidential advisor passed away at age 97.
In his seven-decade career, Garwin helped define the future of MRI machines, laser printers, touch screens, and the hydrogen bomb. In a matter of weeks, Garwin took what had been theoretical concepts from the likes of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, and turned them into the world’s first working prototype. He advocated for publishing research on the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm, which has become part of the backbone of digital signal processing — which all modern telecoms, internet communication, and music streaming rely on.
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