Proper noun
Gallager (plural Gallagers)
A surname from Irish.
The algorithm suggested by Gallager, Humblet, and Spira citation for general undirected graphs has had a strong impact on the design of distributed algorithms in general, and won the Dijkstra Prize for an influential paper in distributed computing. Source: Internet
LDPC codes were first introduced by Robert G. Gallager in his PhD thesis in 1960, but due to the computational effort in implementing encoder and decoder and the introduction of Reed–Solomon codes, they were mostly ignored until recently. Source: Internet