Title:

Presidential Chair Professor

Affiliation:

University of Southern California

Viterbi School of Engineering

3650 McClintock Ave.

Los Angeles,California 90089 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Mathematics and Computer Science

Award Year:

2007

Citation:

"For his development of the maximum-likelihood algorithm for convolutional coding, known as the Viterbi algorithm, and for his contributions to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless technology that transformed the theory and practice of digital communications."

Presented by President George W. Bush in the East Room of the White House on September 29, 2008.