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Co-inventor of the Reed-Solomon error-detecting and correcting codes, Reed made many contributions to areas of electrical engineering including radar, signal processing, and image processing. He was part of the team that built the MADDIDA, a guidance system for Northrop's Snark cruise missile—one of the first digital computers. Reed developed and introduced the now-standard Register Transfer Language to the computer community while at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory.
Reed was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE, a winner of the Claude E. Shannon Award, and, with Gustave Solomon, the 1995 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Award.
