Solomon Wolf Golomb
Honorees
(b.) May 30, 1932 — (d.) May 1, 2016
Description
Inventor of Golomb coding and pioneer in combinatorial analysis and coding theory, Golomb transformed modern communications. He pioneered the identification of the characteristics and merits of maximum length shift register sequences, also known as pseudorandom or pseudonoise sequences, which had extensive military, industrial, and consumer applications. Millions of cordless and cellular phones employed pseudorandom direct-sequence spread spectrum implemented with shift register sequences.
His efforts made USC a center for communications research.