Dr. Andrew J. Viterbi
(1990) Qualcomm, Inc., USA
"For his achievements in the field of digital communications in many adverse environments, particularly through
his widely used algorithm"
Presented by: On behalf of the President of the United States by Dr. D. Allan Bromley, Science Advisor
to the President, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C
Dr. Viterbi is a pioneer in the field of Wireless Communications. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees from
MIT, and his Ph.D. in digital communications from the University of Southern California (USC). He taught at UCLA and
consulted for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) immediately after obtaining his Ph.D. He was a co-founder of Linkabit
in 1968, a small military contractor, and co-founded QualComm with Irwin Jacobs in 1985. He created the Viterbi Algorithm
for interference suppression and efficient decoding of a digital transmission sequence, used by all four international
standards for digital cellular telephony. QualComm is the recognized pioneer of the Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)
digital wireless technology, which allows many users to share the same radio frequencies, and thereby increase system
capacity many times over analog system capacity. Awarded the 1990 Marconi Prize for his achievements in the field of
digital communications in many adverse environments, particularly through his widely-used algorithm, Viterbi is a Life
Fellow of the IEEE, and was inducted as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and of the National
Academy of Sciences in 1996.
Bibliographies
IEEE Bio
IEEE Interview with Dr. Viterbi
2005 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering
List of publications
Wireless Communications for the Twenty-First Century
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