Solomon W. Golomb
Expert in satellite communications technology and research and development in higher education
Distinguished and University Professor
Viterbi Chair in Communications
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Contact at: (213) 740-7333 or sgolomb@usc.edu
Expertise:
- social implications of technology
- radar and sonar signals
- space-communications technology
- communication systems and signals
- coding for reliability, security, data compression, and synchronization
- properties and oddities of calendars
- mathematical games and puzzles
- advances in technology and research in higher education
- research universities and industry
- social ethics education for scientists
- funding basic research
- pork barrel issues in financing research
- problems in number theory and combinatorial analysis
- mathematical models, including uses and limitations
- Author of Digital Communications and Space Applications
- Member, National Academy of Engineering, NAS, Russian Academy of Natural Science
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Recipient, USC Presidential Medallion, National Security Agency Director's Medal, IEEE Shannon Award of the Information Theory Society, Hamming Medal, and three honorary doctorate degrees
Foreign Languages:
German, French, Hebrew
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