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The Viterbi Lecture is USC's premier academic distinction in information technology and digital communications.
Each year the lecture will be delivered by an awardee who has made fundamental contributions of profound impact in communication. This first lecture will be given by Andrew J. Viterbi, co-founder and retired vice chairman and chief technical officer of Qualcomm. He is most well known for creating the Viterbi Algorithm used in most digital cellular phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as diverse fields as magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis. More recently, he concentrated his efforts on establishing CDMA as the multiple access technology of choice for cellular telephony and wireless data communication. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the USC Board of Trustees and the USC School of Engineering's Board of Councilors. He has received several honorary doctorates and the Claude Shannon Award of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers' Information Theory Society.
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