This is a bit out of date (Feb 06 2007).  There are other 
bios of me on the web. See for example the IEEE website
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2005hamming.html.


Biography: Neil James Alexander Sloane                Dec 02 2004

 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, 1969-1995.
Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Labs - Research,
   Murray Hill, NJ, and Florham Park, NJ, 1996-1997.
Technology Leader, AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, NJ, 1998 - present.

Books:
A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973.
A Short Course on Error-Correcting Codes, Springer-Verlag, 1975.
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-Verlag, 1988; 2nd ed., 1993; 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.
Rock Climbing Guide to New Jersey Crags (with Paul Nick),
        Chockstone Press, 1996.
Orthogonal Arrays: Theory and Practice (with A. S. Hedayat and 
        John Stufken), Springer-Verlag, 1999.
Rock Climbing New Jersey (with Paul Nick),
        Falcon Press, 2000.

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

Honors:
Chauvenet Prize, Math. Assos. Amer., 1979
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions Information Theory, 1978-1980.
Distinguished Technical Staff Award, Bell Labs, 1983.
The 1984 Earle Raymond Hedrick Lecturer of the Math. Assoc. Amer.
College de France Medal, 1984.
IEEE Centennial Medal, 1984.
1987 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award (with J. H. Conway).
J. Clarence Karcher Medal, Univ. Oklahoma, 1988.
1995 IEEE Information Theory Society Prize Paper Award
       (with A. R. Calderbank, A. R. Hammons, Jr., P. V. Kumar and P. Sole)
1998 Shannon Lecturer of IEEE Information Theory Society
       (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.
Invited speaker, Deutsche Mathematische Vereinigung, Dresden, Sept., 2000.
IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal, 2005

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://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/)
       receives thousands of visits each day.

Publication list of 279 items is available from
       http://www.research.att.com/~njas/doc/pub.html