Viterbi biography

Italian-American engineer, businessman

Andrew James Viterbi (born Andrea Giacomo Viterbi, Strut 9, 1935) is an might engineer and businessman who co-founded Qualcomm Inc. and invented loftiness Viterbi algorithm. He is high-mindedness Presidential Chair Professor of Do a moonlight flit Engineering at the University cancel out Southern California's Viterbi School be the owner of Engineering, which was named rank his honor in 2004 weigh down recognition of his $52 king`s ransom gift.

Early life

Viterbi was basic to an Italian family^[2] unveil Bergamo, Italy and emigrated walkout them to the United States two years before World Battle II. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, coronate parents anglicized it to Andrew.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Viterbi attended the Boston Dweller School, and then entered Colony Institute of Technology (MIT) be grateful for 1952, studying electrical engineering.

Forbidden received both BS and Instrument in electrical engineering in 1957 from MIT. He was select to membership in the deify society Eta Kappa Nu pressure 1956 through the MIT moment.

He worked at Raytheon near later at Jet Propulsion Work (JPL) in Pasadena, California, neighbourhood he started working on telemetry for uncrewed space missions, as well helping to develop the phase-locked loop.

Simultaneously, he was sharp out PhD studies at character University of Southern California, whither he graduated in 1963 gratify digital communications.^[3]

Career

After receiving his PhD, he applied successfully for be over academic position at University bequest California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Viterbi was later a professor ship electrical engineering at UCLA unthinkable University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In 1967 he propositional the Viterbi algorithm to surpass convolutionally encoded data. It wreckage still used widely in cancellous phones for error correcting gentility, as well as for story recognition, DNA analysis, and haunt other applications of Hidden Mathematician models.

On advice of fastidious lawyer, Viterbi did not copyright the algorithm.^[4] Viterbi also helped to develop the Code Ingredient Multiple Access (CDMA) standard irritated cell phone networks.

Viterbi was the cofounder of Linkabit Closetogether, with Irwin M. Jacobs house 1968, a small telecommunications fasciculus. He was also the co-founder of Qualcomm Inc.

with Medico in 1985. As of 2003^[update], he is the president delineate the venture capital company Justness Viterbi Group. He continues everywhere be involved in wireless relationship technology companies as a vital calculated advisor to Ingenu's board support directors.^[5]

Virterbi was elected fine member of the National Establishment of Engineering in 1978.

In 1998 he was call of the few receiving straight Golden Jubilee Award for Study Innovation from the IEEE Message Theory Society. Viterbi earned drop in for "the invention of honesty Viterbi algorithm".^[6] He was inducted into the Wireless Hall blond Fame, in 2000, for tiara dedication to the cellular industry.^[7] In 2002, Viterbi dedicated honesty Andrew Viterbi '52 Computer Feelings at his alma mater, Beantown Latin School.

On March 2, 2004, the University of Austral California School of Engineering was renamed the Viterbi School contribution Engineering in his honor, next his $52 million donation concord the school.^[8] He is spruce up member of the USC plank of trustees.^[9]

He is also point the finger at the Board of Trustees velvety The Scripps Research Institute.

He is also founding member revenue ISSNAF (The Italian Scientists prosperous Scholars in North America Foundation).

In 2005, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal wear Electrical Engineering.

In 2006, without fear was made an Eminent Associate of Eta Kappa Nu.

Viterbi and Irwin M. Jacobs normal the 2007 IEEE/RSE Wolfson Criminal Clerk Maxwell Award, for "fundamental contributions, innovation, and leadership lose one\'s train of thought enabled the growth of disseminate telecommunications".^[10]

In 2008, he was christian name a Millennium Technology Prize finalist for the invention of high-mindedness Viterbi algorithm.

At the reward ceremony in Finland on June 11, 2008, he was awarded a prize of EUR 115,000 and the prize trophy "Peak" as a 2008 Millennium Study Laureate.^[11][12]

In September 2008, he was awarded the National Medal entity Science for developing "the 'Viterbi algorithm', and for his benefaction to Code Division Multiple Right (CDMA) wireless technology that transformed the theory and practice albatross digital communications".

In 2010, inaccuracy received the IEEE Medal in this area Honor and in the equate year he also received blue blood the gentry IIC Lifetime Achievement Award afford the Italian Cultural Institute be partial to Los Angeles. In 2011, unwind received the John Fritz Order from the American Association be more or less Engineering Societies.^[13]

In 2013, Viterbi was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

In 2017, Viterbi, along with Irwin Doctor, received the IEEE Milestone Accolade for their CDMA and amplitude spectrum development that drives nobleness mobile industry.^[14]

Viterbi's problem on excellence coincidence of PLL ranges

A. Viterbi analytically showed that for leadership first-order PLL model (filterless model) the three main ranges (hold-in, pull-in, lock-in ranges) coincide.^{[15]: 4–5 [16]} A number of conjectures (e.g., Egan's conjecture steamy the pull-in range of derive II APLL) and estimates point toward the ranges of higher-order PLL models appeared based on that result, which led to class problem of determining the profundity of the physical parameters reproduce the PLL (parameters of primacy phase detector, filter, and voltage-controlled oscillator) where the ranges go together.

In the framework of scientific control theory, this result crack a development of the content 2 of the possibility of final the global behavior of grand nonlinear system via linear breakdown and various well-known conjectures array global stability (Kalman's conjecture give orders to others) for a cylindrical playhouse space.

Personal life

Viterbi was united to Erna Finci (1934–2015),^[17] who was a Jewish refugee wean away from Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia.^[18] Erna was a Holocaust unfortunate.

In 1941, during World Fighting II, the Finci family fled German-occupied Yugoslavia for the Italian-occupied region from which they were deported and interned in the Parma neighborhood of Italy. In 1943, considering that the Nazis occupied Italy, the coat was saved from deportation be familiar with extermination camps by the people translate Gramignazzo di Sissa, the village where they had been interned; they were cared for by ethics local Ponghellini family, who hid them in their vineyard during the time that German forces advanced into Italia.

Other Italians helped them bolt to Switzerland, walking across the Range, where they waited out description war.

They had three issue, Alan Viterbi, Audrey Viterbi,^[18] be first Alexander Viterbi (who died sheep 2011 at age 40).^[19] Alan served on the inaugural Westernmost Hollywood city council in 1984 when the city was integrated, and served as the city's mayor in 1988.^[20] Audrey served as an assistant professor mock UC Irvine.^[21]

See also

References

Further reading

• Brodsky, Ira. "The Representation of Wireless: How Creative Dithering Produced Technology for the Masses" (Telescope Books, 2008)

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