Solomon W.
Golomb
University Professor, Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Andrew and Erna Viterbi Chair in Communications
University of Southern California
2011
Engineering
For pioneering work in shift register sequences that changed the course of communications from analog to digital, and for numerous innovations in reliable and secure space, radar, cellular, wireless, and spread-spectrum communications.
President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on February 1, 2013.