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Viterbi Lecture


Andrew J. Viterbi is the legendary communications figure for whom the Viterbi School is named. Viterbi helped open the doors to the digital age with the Viterbi Algorithm, an original mathematical formula for eliminating signal interference.

Today, his algorithm is used in all four international standards for digital cellular telephones, as well as in data terminals, digital satellite broadcast receivers and deep space telemetry. 

2008 Speaker

Jack K. Wolf, University of California, San Diego
"From Edison to Viterbi"
February 28, 2008
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Past Speakers


2007
Robert J. McEliece
"Learning to Teach the Viterbi Algorithm"

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2006
Toby Berger

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2005
Jacob Ziv
"What is Hidden in an Individual Sequence?"

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2003
G. David Forney, Jr. 
"Not your father's coding theory"
2002
Andrew J. Viterbi (inaugural lecture)