Event Summary
Tuesday, March 8 |
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8:00-9:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast (Davidson Conference Center) |
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9:00-5:00: |
Technical Program (Davidson Conference Center) |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (Vineyard Room) |
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5:00-6:00 |
Reception (Lobby of Davidson Conference Center) |
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6:00-7:00 |
Viterbi Distinguished Lecture (Embassy Room)
Jacob Ziv
What is Hidden in an Individual Sequence?
Universal Data-Compression Revisited |
| Wednesday, March 9 |
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8:00-9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:00-12:00 |
Technical Program (Embassy Room: Davidson Conference Center) |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (Vineyard Room) |
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1:30-2:00 |
Andrew Viterbi, USC Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Reminiscences and Closing Remarks |
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3:00-4:00 |
Communication Sciences Institute Research Overview and Student Poster Session
(Club Room: Davidson Conference Center) |
Technical Program: Day 1
Tuesday, March 8 |
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8:00-9:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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9:00-9:30 |
C. L. Max Nikias, Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Welcoming Remarks |
Technical Session I: The Viterbi Algorithm
Session Chair: G. David Forney, Jr. |
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9:30-10:15 |
Plenary Talk
G. David Forney, Bernard M. Gordon Adjunct Professor, MIT History of the Viterbi Algorithm |
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10:15-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Dr. Jim Omura
Reflections on Andrew Viterbi and his Algorithm |
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11:30-12:00 |
Paul Siegel, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, UCSD
Applications of the Viterbi Algorithm in Data Storage Technology |
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12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (Vineyard Room) |
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Technical Session II: Space Communications
Session Chair: William C. Lindsey |
| 1:30-2:15 |
Plenary Talk
William C. Lindsey, Professor, Electrical Engineering, USC Andrew J. Viterbi’s Contributions to Space Communications: A Systems Perspective |
| 2:15-3:00 |
Break |
| 3:00-3:30 |
Robert J. McEliece.
Allen E. Puckett Professor, Electrical Engineering, Caltech
Viterbi's Impact on the Exploration of the Solar System |
| 4:00-4:30 |
Dr. William W. Wu, Founder & CTO, ATMco Andrew Viterbi's Impact in International Satellite Communications |
| 4:30-5:00 |
Dr. Bernard Sklar, Director of Advanced Systems Communications, Engineering Services
What did Andy Viterbi do for Communications? Let Me Count the Ways |
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5:00-6:00 |
Reception (Lobby of Davidson Conference Center) |
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6:00-7:00 |
Viterbi Distinguished Lecture (Embassy Room)
Dr. Jacob Ziv
What Hidden in an Individual Sequence?
Universal Data-Compression Revisited |
Technical Program: Day 2
Wednesday, March 9 |
| 8:00-9:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Solomon Golomb, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor, Electrical Engineering USC
Reminisces on Andrew Viterbi and his impact |
| Technical Session III: Code division Multiple Access (CDMA)
Session Chair: Roberto Padovani, CTO, Qulacomm, Inc |
| 9:20-10:05 |
Plenary Talk
Roberto Padovani, CTO, Qualcomm, Inc.
Ten years of progress in CDMA. |
| 10:05-10:30 |
Break |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Robert A. Scholtz, Fred H. Cole Professor, Electrical Engineering, USC CDMA in Retrospect |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Sergio Verdú, Professor, Electrical Engineering, Princeton
Multiuser Detection: A Historical Account |
| 11:30-12:00 |
David Tse, Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, UC Berkeley
CDMA vs Opportunistic Communication: A Tale of Two Views |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch (with remarks by C. L. Max Nikias) |
| 1:30-2:00 |
Andrew Viterbi,
USC Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering
Reminiscences and Closing Remarks |
| 2:00-2:30 |
Break |
| 2:30-3:00 |
Keith Chugg and Urbashi Mitra, Director(s), Communication Sciences Institute,
Electrical Engineering, USC
Current Communications Research at USC |
| 3:00-4:00 |
Communication Sciences Institute (CSI) Student Poster Session |
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