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However, we had a previous collaboration in 1953 when Tukey was a consultant at John Von Neuman's computer project at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where I was a programmer. I programmed for him what later became the very popular Blackman-Tukey method of spectral analysis [5]. The important feature of this method was that it gave good smoothed statistical estimates of power spectra without requiring large Fourier transforms. Thus, our two collaborations were first on a method for avoiding large Fourier transforms since they were so costly and then a method for reducing the cost of the Fourier transforms.
However, we had a previous collaboration in 1953 when Tukey was a consultant at John Von Neuman's computer project at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, where I was a programmer. I programmed for him what later became the very popular Blackman-Tukey method of spectral analysis [5]. The important feature of this method was that it gave good smoothed statistical estimates of power spectra without requiring large Fourier transforms. Thus, our two collaborations were first on a method for avoiding large Fourier transforms since they were so costly and then a method for reducing the cost of the Fourier transforms.
