Education

Phd, Mathematics, 1970, University of Illinois Urbana
MS, Mathematics, 1968, University of Illinois Urbana
BS, Applied Math, 1967, University of Missouri Rolla

Professional Background

Faculty with Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities (1986-2011)

Selected Publications

John Kieffer, A Survey of Bratteli Information Source Theory
Proceedings of the 2016 International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 16-20, 2016.

Jie Zhang, En-hui Yang, John Kieffer, A universal grammar-based code for lossless compression of binary trees
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 60, pp. 1373-1386, 2014.

Jie Zhang, En-hui Yang, John Kieffer, Redundancy analysis in lossless compression of a binary tree via its minimal DAG representation
Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Information Theory, pp. 1914-1918, 2013.

John Kieffer, Asymptotics of divide-and-conquer recurrences via iterated function systems
Proceedings of 23rd Intern. Meeting on Probabilistic, Combinatorial, and Asymptotic Methods for the Analysis of Algorithms (AofA’12), pp.55-66, 2012.

John Kieffer, A catalog of self-affine hierarchical entropy functions
Algorithms (Basel), Vol. 4, pp. 307-333, 2011.

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