Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Italian Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee because of the Italian racial laws. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, his parents anglicized it to Andrew.
Andrew and Erna Viterbi: The Journey and the Legacy
An iconic story of the American Dream and the American Century leads to the naming of the USC School of Engineering.
published: 14 Sep 2007
Andrew Viterbi
New York Times Magazine: "Can Cell Phones Help End Global Poverty?" Nokia's Jorma Ollila Calls the Technology a "Great Equalizer"
Cell phones are having a profound effect on the economies of the emerging nations, according to an article in this Sunday's New York Times.
Sara Corbett followed Nokia researchers around the globe to report on how the proliferation of mobile phones is creating commerce and new opportunities for many just stepping out of poverty. It's a very interesting story.
Plessjorma Earlier this week in Manhattan, Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said that the mobile device is a "great equalizer" among people. We captured his comments during an awards presentation for Finland's Millennium Technology Prize. He was interviewed on stage at the New York Academy of Scienc...
published: 25 Apr 2008
Andrew Viterbi on Fascist Italy, US Jews and Primo Levi
Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed the Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. In this video, he talks about his early youth in fascist Italy; his family's emigration to America; his cousin, renowned Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi; the unusual experience of being an Italian Jew in the U.S.; and the millennia of Jewish history in the Mediterranean region.
published: 02 Dec 2008
Dr. Andrew Viterbi: RPMA is a New Approach to an Old Problem
Qualcomm co-founder and renowned engineer Dr. Andrew Viterbi sees RPMA technology answering an age-old question.
published: 28 Sep 2015
2016 Draper Prize - Andrew Viterbi
The National Academy of Engineering awards the 2016 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Andrew J. Viterbi “for development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics.” The $500,000 annual award is given to engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society.
published: 16 Feb 2016
Andrew Viterbi - 2007 National Medal of Science
published: 26 Oct 2015
The Making of the Digital World - Andrew Viterbi - Royal Academy of Engineering
The making of the digital world: from Charles Babbage to the present and beyond
Technology Visionaries series - 13 October 2011
Over a century and a half ago, Charles Babbage published the concept of the first digital computer which he sought to construct as a mechanical machine. A century later by the
outset of World War II, the necessary electrical infrastructure had been developed, and a number of machines were built, initially in support of the war effort and later for scientific and business applications.
From these modest beginnings, the subsequent six decades have witnessed the technological evolution which now impacts practically everyone on the planet. Shortly after the end of the war all the theoretical underpinnings were in place: solid state
physics, leading to massive devic...
published: 25 Jan 2013
National Inventors Hall of Fame Honoree Andrew Viterbi
Electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, Andrew Viterbi, received two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants to further develop and commercialize Code Division Multiple Access, a technology important for wireless communication throughout the world.
New York Times Magazine: "Can Cell Phones Help End Global Poverty?" Nokia's Jorma Ollila Calls the Technology a "Great Equalizer"
Cell phones are having a pr...
New York Times Magazine: "Can Cell Phones Help End Global Poverty?" Nokia's Jorma Ollila Calls the Technology a "Great Equalizer"
Cell phones are having a profound effect on the economies of the emerging nations, according to an article in this Sunday's New York Times.
Sara Corbett followed Nokia researchers around the globe to report on how the proliferation of mobile phones is creating commerce and new opportunities for many just stepping out of poverty. It's a very interesting story.
Plessjorma Earlier this week in Manhattan, Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said that the mobile device is a "great equalizer" among people. We captured his comments during an awards presentation for Finland's Millennium Technology Prize. He was interviewed on stage at the New York Academy of Sciences by Jason Pontin, editor of MIT's Technology Review. (The photo here is of me and Ollila.)
Also this week, I interviewed Andrew Viterbi, the physicist whose pioneering work in wireless telephony for spacecraft in the 1950's led to the development of mobile phone technology. Viterbi, one of the creators of CDMA, the ubiquitous mobile technology platform, is a co-founder of Qualcomm. He told me how delighted he is that nearly half the world's population have cell phones, something that could never have been accomplished with landlines. Viterbi is a finalist in the Finnish tech prize.
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008
New York Times Magazine: "Can Cell Phones Help End Global Poverty?" Nokia's Jorma Ollila Calls the Technology a "Great Equalizer"
Cell phones are having a profound effect on the economies of the emerging nations, according to an article in this Sunday's New York Times.
Sara Corbett followed Nokia researchers around the globe to report on how the proliferation of mobile phones is creating commerce and new opportunities for many just stepping out of poverty. It's a very interesting story.
Plessjorma Earlier this week in Manhattan, Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said that the mobile device is a "great equalizer" among people. We captured his comments during an awards presentation for Finland's Millennium Technology Prize. He was interviewed on stage at the New York Academy of Sciences by Jason Pontin, editor of MIT's Technology Review. (The photo here is of me and Ollila.)
Also this week, I interviewed Andrew Viterbi, the physicist whose pioneering work in wireless telephony for spacecraft in the 1950's led to the development of mobile phone technology. Viterbi, one of the creators of CDMA, the ubiquitous mobile technology platform, is a co-founder of Qualcomm. He told me how delighted he is that nearly half the world's population have cell phones, something that could never have been accomplished with landlines. Viterbi is a finalist in the Finnish tech prize.
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008
Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed the Viterbi Famil...
Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed the Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. In this video, he talks about his early youth in fascist Italy; his family's emigration to America; his cousin, renowned Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi; the unusual experience of being an Italian Jew in the U.S.; and the millennia of Jewish history in the Mediterranean region.
Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed the Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. In this video, he talks about his early youth in fascist Italy; his family's emigration to America; his cousin, renowned Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi; the unusual experience of being an Italian Jew in the U.S.; and the millennia of Jewish history in the Mediterranean region.
The National Academy of Engineering awards the 2016 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Andrew J. Viterbi “for development of the Viterbi algorithm, i...
The National Academy of Engineering awards the 2016 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Andrew J. Viterbi “for development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics.” The $500,000 annual award is given to engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society.
The National Academy of Engineering awards the 2016 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Andrew J. Viterbi “for development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics.” The $500,000 annual award is given to engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society.
The making of the digital world: from Charles Babbage to the present and beyond
Technology Visionaries series - 13 October 2011
Over a century and a half ago,...
The making of the digital world: from Charles Babbage to the present and beyond
Technology Visionaries series - 13 October 2011
Over a century and a half ago, Charles Babbage published the concept of the first digital computer which he sought to construct as a mechanical machine. A century later by the
outset of World War II, the necessary electrical infrastructure had been developed, and a number of machines were built, initially in support of the war effort and later for scientific and business applications.
From these modest beginnings, the subsequent six decades have witnessed the technological evolution which now impacts practically everyone on the planet. Shortly after the end of the war all the theoretical underpinnings were in place: solid state
physics, leading to massive device integration needed for compact and affordable infrastructure, the mathematical principles underlying computer architecture, design and software as well as the theory of information and communication.
Over time most enterprises, whether private or public, saw their operations digitally reconstructed. It took a few more decades for the technology to impact on consumers. Though this began 30 years ago with the first PCs, it was not until personal two-way communication via the internet, both wired and wireless, that humankind became digitally interconnected. The cultural, social and political consequences are currently transforming our lives in novel and unexpected ways.
Dr Andrew Viterbi
Dr Viterbi is a co-founder, retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. He spent equal portions of his career in industry and in academia as Professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, first at UCLA and then at UCSD, at which he is now Professor Emeritus. He is currently President of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. He also serves as a Presidential Chair and Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California and a distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
His principal research contribution, the Viterbi Algorithm, is used in most digital mobile phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in such 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.
Dr Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the US and internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an honorary title from the President of Italy and the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States.
Read more on the Royal Academy of Engineering website:
http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/details.htm?Event=383&Detail=True
The making of the digital world: from Charles Babbage to the present and beyond
Technology Visionaries series - 13 October 2011
Over a century and a half ago, Charles Babbage published the concept of the first digital computer which he sought to construct as a mechanical machine. A century later by the
outset of World War II, the necessary electrical infrastructure had been developed, and a number of machines were built, initially in support of the war effort and later for scientific and business applications.
From these modest beginnings, the subsequent six decades have witnessed the technological evolution which now impacts practically everyone on the planet. Shortly after the end of the war all the theoretical underpinnings were in place: solid state
physics, leading to massive device integration needed for compact and affordable infrastructure, the mathematical principles underlying computer architecture, design and software as well as the theory of information and communication.
Over time most enterprises, whether private or public, saw their operations digitally reconstructed. It took a few more decades for the technology to impact on consumers. Though this began 30 years ago with the first PCs, it was not until personal two-way communication via the internet, both wired and wireless, that humankind became digitally interconnected. The cultural, social and political consequences are currently transforming our lives in novel and unexpected ways.
Dr Andrew Viterbi
Dr Viterbi is a co-founder, retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. He spent equal portions of his career in industry and in academia as Professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, first at UCLA and then at UCSD, at which he is now Professor Emeritus. He is currently President of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. He also serves as a Presidential Chair and Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California and a distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
His principal research contribution, the Viterbi Algorithm, is used in most digital mobile phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in such 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.
Dr Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the US and internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an honorary title from the President of Italy and the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States.
Read more on the Royal Academy of Engineering website:
http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/details.htm?Event=383&Detail=True
Electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, Andrew Viterbi, received two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Rese...
Electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, Andrew Viterbi, received two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants to further develop and commercialize Code Division Multiple Access, a technology important for wireless communication throughout the world.
Electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, Andrew Viterbi, received two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants to further develop and commercialize Code Division Multiple Access, a technology important for wireless communication throughout the world.
New York Times Magazine: "Can Cell Phones Help End Global Poverty?" Nokia's Jorma Ollila Calls the Technology a "Great Equalizer"
Cell phones are having a profound effect on the economies of the emerging nations, according to an article in this Sunday's New York Times.
Sara Corbett followed Nokia researchers around the globe to report on how the proliferation of mobile phones is creating commerce and new opportunities for many just stepping out of poverty. It's a very interesting story.
Plessjorma Earlier this week in Manhattan, Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila said that the mobile device is a "great equalizer" among people. We captured his comments during an awards presentation for Finland's Millennium Technology Prize. He was interviewed on stage at the New York Academy of Sciences by Jason Pontin, editor of MIT's Technology Review. (The photo here is of me and Ollila.)
Also this week, I interviewed Andrew Viterbi, the physicist whose pioneering work in wireless telephony for spacecraft in the 1950's led to the development of mobile phone technology. Viterbi, one of the creators of CDMA, the ubiquitous mobile technology platform, is a co-founder of Qualcomm. He told me how delighted he is that nearly half the world's population have cell phones, something that could never have been accomplished with landlines. Viterbi is a finalist in the Finnish tech prize.
Posted on Friday, April 11, 2008
Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed the Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA. In this video, he talks about his early youth in fascist Italy; his family's emigration to America; his cousin, renowned Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi; the unusual experience of being an Italian Jew in the U.S.; and the millennia of Jewish history in the Mediterranean region.
The National Academy of Engineering awards the 2016 Charles Stark Draper Prize for Engineering to Andrew J. Viterbi “for development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics.” The $500,000 annual award is given to engineers whose accomplishments have significantly benefited society.
The making of the digital world: from Charles Babbage to the present and beyond
Technology Visionaries series - 13 October 2011
Over a century and a half ago, Charles Babbage published the concept of the first digital computer which he sought to construct as a mechanical machine. A century later by the
outset of World War II, the necessary electrical infrastructure had been developed, and a number of machines were built, initially in support of the war effort and later for scientific and business applications.
From these modest beginnings, the subsequent six decades have witnessed the technological evolution which now impacts practically everyone on the planet. Shortly after the end of the war all the theoretical underpinnings were in place: solid state
physics, leading to massive device integration needed for compact and affordable infrastructure, the mathematical principles underlying computer architecture, design and software as well as the theory of information and communication.
Over time most enterprises, whether private or public, saw their operations digitally reconstructed. It took a few more decades for the technology to impact on consumers. Though this began 30 years ago with the first PCs, it was not until personal two-way communication via the internet, both wired and wireless, that humankind became digitally interconnected. The cultural, social and political consequences are currently transforming our lives in novel and unexpected ways.
Dr Andrew Viterbi
Dr Viterbi is a co-founder, retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of Qualcomm Incorporated. He spent equal portions of his career in industry and in academia as Professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science, first at UCLA and then at UCSD, at which he is now Professor Emeritus. He is currently President of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company. He also serves as a Presidential Chair and Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California and a distinguished Visiting Professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
His principal research contribution, the Viterbi Algorithm, is used in most digital mobile phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in such 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.
Dr Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the US and internationally. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received an honorary title from the President of Italy and the National Medal of Science from the President of the United States.
Read more on the Royal Academy of Engineering website:
http://www.raeng.org.uk/events/details.htm?Event=383&Detail=True
Electrical engineer and cofounder of wireless technology giant Qualcomm, Andrew Viterbi, received two National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research grants to further develop and commercialize Code Division Multiple Access, a technology important for wireless communication throughout the world.
Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Italian Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee because of the Italian racial laws. His original name was Andrea, but when he was naturalized in the US, his parents anglicized it to Andrew.