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Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi
Dr. Viterbi, in July 1985, co-founded QUALCOMM Incorporated, a developer and manufacturer of mobile satellite communications and digital wireless telephony, where he served as Vice Chairman until 2000 and as Chief Technical Officer until 1996. Under his leadership, QUALCOMM has received international recognition for innovative technology in the areas of digital wireless communication systems and products based on Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) technologies.
All four international standards for digital cellular telephony utilize the Viterbi Algorithm for interference suppression, as do most digital satellite communication systems, both for business applications and for direct satellite broadcast to the home. The Viterbi Algorithm is also used in such diverse fields as magnetic recording, speech recognition and DNA sequence analysis.
Prior to co-founding QUALCOMM, Dr. Viterbi co-founded LINKABIT Corporation in 1968, a digital communications company, where he served as Executive Vice President and later as President.
Dr. Viterbi has received numerous awards and recognition for his leadership and substantial contributions to the communications industry over the years. He has received honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S.,Canada, Italy and Israel and has been otherwise honored in Japan, Germany and Italy as well as the United States. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Marconi Fellow and a Member of both the United States National Academy of Engineering, the United States National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has been a member of the United States President's Information Technology Advisory Committee and is a Trustee of the University of Southern California and various other educational, scientific and philanthropic institutions.
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