Andrew James Viterbi is an American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm. He is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, named in his honor. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardCharles Stark Draper Prize 2 AwardNational Inventors Hall of Fame 2 AwardIEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 2 AwardNational Medal of Science 2 AwardBenjamin Franklin Medal 2 AwardClaude E. Shannon Award 2 Connections
Associated With
Irwin Jacobs, Pioneers Verified en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin_M._Jacobs: "In 1968, Jacobs co-founded Linkabit Corporation with Andrew Viterbi" and "In 1985, Jacobs went on to co-found Qualcomm Inc. along with Viterbi."
Invented
Andrew Viterbi published his dynamic programming algorithm for decoding convolutional codes in 1967.
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Andrew James Viterbi is an American electrical engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented the Viterbi algorithm.
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March 9, 1935
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