Kailath Lecture and Colloquium

On the occasion of Professor Thomas Kailath's 70th birthday, a group of his former students and associates joined to honor his influence and contributions by endowing a fund that will support an annual lecture in mathematical engineering, as well as colloquia, workshops and other research-enhancing activities.

The Colloquium will focus on the broad area of communications, with speakers Helmut Boelcskei (ETH), Giuseppe Caire (USC), A. Robert Calderbank (Princeton), Nambi Seshadri (Broadcom), and Shlomo Shamai (Technion), and Michael Luby (Qualcomm).

 

We look forward to welcoming you at Stanford for this event

 

Professors Andrea Goldsmith and A. Paulraj

2009 Kailath Lecture and Colloquium Co-Chairs

2009 Kailath Lecture
Stanford University
November 19, 2009

You are cordially invited the attend the Kailath Lecture and Colloquium on November 19, 2009 at Stanford University. The Lecture and Colloquium will be an all-day event, followed by a banquet in honor of our speaker.

Andrew J. Viterbi,

UCSD and the Viterbi Group

 

A Random Process, a Linear Filter and an Algorithm: Does Memory Matter?

 

Dr. Andrew Viterbi is a co-founder and retired Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer of QUALCOMM Incorporated.  He spent equal portions of his career in industry, having previously co-founded Linkabit Corporation, 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 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 cellular 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 published extensively on information and communication theory, including three books: Principles of Coherent communication (1966); Principles of Digital Communication and Coding (with J.K.Omura, 1979); CDMA: Principles of Spread Spectrum Communication (1995).

Dr. Viterbi has received numerous honors both in the U.S. and internationally.  Among these are seven honorary doctorates, from universities in Canada, Israel, Italy and the U.S., the Marconi International Fellowship Award, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell, the Claude Shannon and the James Clerk Maxwell Awards, the NEC C&C Award, the Eduard Rhein Foundation Award, the Christopher Columbus Medal, the Franklin Medal, the Robert Noyes Semiconductor Industry Award and the Millennium Laureate Award. 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.

Viterbi serves on boards and committees of numerous non-profit institutions, including the University of Southern California, MIT Visiting Committee for Bioengineering, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Scripps Translational Science Institute and he is the past chairman of the Computer and Information Sciences Section of the National Academy of Sciences.