1. Solomon Kullback was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov.
16 Facts About Solomon Kullback
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Solomon Kullback went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and its eventual successor, the National Security Agency.
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Solomon Kullback was born to Jewish parents in Brooklyn, New York.
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Solomon Kullback's father Nathan had been born in Vilna, Russian Empire, and had immigrated to the US as a young man circa 1905, and became a naturalized American in 1911.
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Solomon Kullback then went to City College of New York, graduating with a BA in 1927 and an MA in math in 1929.
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Solomon Kullback completed a doctorate in math from George Washington University in 1934.
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Solomon Kullback's intention had been to teach, and he returned to Boy's High School to do so, but found it not to his taste; he discovered his real interest was using mathematics, not teaching it.
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Solomon Kullback worked in partnership with Frank Rowlett against RED cipher machine messages.
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Solomon Kullback learned at Bletchley Park that the British were producing intelligence of high quality by exploiting the Enigma machine.
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Solomon Kullback cooperated with the British in the solution of more conventional German codebook-based systems.
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Shortly after his return to the States, Solomon Kullback moved into the Japanese section as its chief.
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Solomon Kullback supervised a team of about 60 people, including such innovative thinkers in automated data processing development as Leo Rosen and Sam Snyder.
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Solomon Kullback's staff pioneered new forms of input and memory, such as magnetic tape and drum memory, and compilers to make machines truly "multi-purpose".
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Solomon Kullback gave priority to using computers to generate communications security materials.
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Solomon Kullback retired from NSA in 1962, and focused on his teaching at George Washington University and publishing new papers.
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Solomon Kullback reached the rank of colonel, and was inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.