Before revision: It was originally programmed around 1953 by James Cooley at John von Neumann's Institute for Advanced Study as a way to get "good smoothed statistical estimates of power spectra without requiring large Fourier transforms."
After revision: for John TukeyIt was originally programmed around 1953 by James Cooley at John von Neumann's Institute for Advanced Study as a way to get "good smoothed statistical estimates of power spectra without requiring large Fourier transforms."