James Cooley

Dr. James Cooley (born 1926) is an American mathematician. His most significant contribution to the world of mathematics and digital signal processing is the Fast Fourier transform, which he co-developed with John Tukey (see Cooley-Tukey FFT algorithm) while working for the research division of IBM in 1965. He was a member of the Digital Signal Processing Commitee of the IEEE, and was later awarded a fellowship of IEEE for his work on FFT.