Biography: Neil James Alexander Sloane                Apr 16 2010

 Neil J. A. Sloane, njas@research.att.com,
 AT&T Shannon Labs, Room C233, 180 Park Ave,
 Florham Park, NJ 07932-0971 USA.
 Home page: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/
 Office phone: (973) 360 8415; fax: (973) 360 8178

Degrees:
B.E.E., University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 1959.
B.A. (Honours), University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 1960.
M.S., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1964.
Ph.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1967.

Employment:
Assistant Professor, Elect. Engin. Dept., Cornell Univ., 1967-1969.
Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, 1969-1997.
Technology Leader, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, 1997 - present.

Books:
A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973.
The Theory of Error-Correcting Codes (with F. J. MacWilliams), North-Holland, 1977.
Hadamard Transform Optics (with M. Harwit), Academic Press, 1979.
Sphere-Packings, Lattices and Groups (with J. H. Conway), Springer, 1988; 3rd ed. 1988.
Claude Elwood Shannon: Collected Papers (edited, with A. D. Wyner), IEEE Press, 1993.
The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (with S. Plouffe), Academic Press, 1995.
Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Practice (with A. S. Hedayat and John Stufken), Springer-Verlag, 1999.
Rock Climbing New Jersey (with Paul Nick), 2nd. ed., Falcon Press, 2000.
Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory (with G. Nebe and E. M. Rains), Springer, 2006.

Societies:
American Mathematical Society, American Statistical Association, Institute Electrical & Electronic Engineers,
Mathematical Association America, National Academy of Engineering, American Alpine Club.

Honors:
Chauvenet Prize, Math. Assos. Amer., 1979
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions Information Theory, 1978-1980.
1984 Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturer, Math. Assoc. Amer.
1987 IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award (with J. H. Conway).
1995 IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award (with A. R. Calderbank, A. R. Hammons, Jr., P. V. Kumar and P. Sole)
1998 IEEE Information Theory Society Shannon Lecturer (the Information Theory Society's highest award)
Elected to National Academy of Engineering, 1998
AT&T Fellow, 1998
Invited speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin, 1998.
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 2005
Math. Assoc. America, David R. Robbins Prize, 2008.

Other:
The Sloane-Hardin Design of Experiments program ``Gosset'' 
       (see http://www.research.att.com/~njas/gosset/)
       is widely used in industry.
``The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences''
       (see http://oeis.org) receives thousands of visits each day.

Publication list of 300 items and 135 co-authors is available from
       http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/pub.html