Andrew Viterbi is the Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, which was named in his honor in 2004 in recognition of his $52 million gift.
14 Facts About Andrew Viterbi
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Andrew Viterbi attended the Boston Latin School, and then entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1952, studying electrical engineering.
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Andrew Viterbi received both BS and MS in electrical engineering in 1957 from MIT.
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Andrew Viterbi was elected to membership in the honor society Eta Kappa Nu in 1956 through the MIT chapter.
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Andrew Viterbi worked at Raytheon and later at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, where he started working on telemetry for uncrewed space missions, helping to develop the phase-locked loop.
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Andrew Viterbi was later a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and University of California, San Diego.
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Andrew Viterbi helped to develop the Code Division Multiple Access standard for cell phone networks.
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Andrew Viterbi was the co-founder of Qualcomm Inc with Jacobs in 1985.
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Andrew Viterbi continues to be involved in wireless communications technology companies as a strategic advisor to Ingenu's board of directors.
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Andrew Viterbi earned it for "the invention of the Andrew Viterbi algorithm".
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Andrew Viterbi is a member of the USC board of trustees.
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Andrew Viterbi is on the Board of Trustees at The Scripps Research Institute.
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In 2013, Andrew Viterbi was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
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Andrew Viterbi was married to Erna Finci, who was a Jewish refugee from Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia.