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Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 10 June 2005
Viterbi to present keynote at GSPx
Dr Andrew Viterbi, cofounder and retired Vice Chairman and CTO of Qualcomm, will deliver the principal keynote address at GSPx 2005, the pervasive signal processing event
GSPx 2005 will take place from 24th to 27th October at the Santa Clara Convention Centre in California. Dr Viterbi will address the conference delegates on 26th October. 'We are proud to present Dr Viterbi, the creator of the Viterbi algorithm and the recognised leader in digital cellular telephony, as a keynote speaker at GSPx', said Dr Amnon Aliphas, GSPx Conference Chair.
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'The Viterbi algorithm is used in most digital cellular phones and digital satellite receivers for interface suppression and efficient decoding of a digital transmission sequence, and is used by all four international standards for digital cellular telephony'.
'It is also used in such diverse fields as magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis'.
More recently Dr Viterbi has concentrated on establishing CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) as the multiple access technology of choice for cellular telephony and wireless data communication.
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CDMA digital wireless technology allows many users to share the same radio frequencies, and thereby increases system capacity many times over analogue system capacity.
In addition to cofounding Qualcomm, Dr Viterbi previously cofounded Linkabit Corp and spent a significant portion of his career in academia as a Professor in the Schools of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA and at UCSD, where he is now Professor Emeritus.
He has also served on the US President's Information Technology Advisory Committee.
He is currently president of the Viterbi Group, a technical advisory and investment company.
In addition, Dr Viterbi is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received six honorary doctorates from leading domestic and international universities.
'Dr Viterbi joins other embedded and signal processing recognised experts, helping establish GSPx as the leading event in the industry', added Aliphas.
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