Solomon Golomb
Solomon Golomb · Technology & Engineering
Devised pseudorandom sequence generation used in communications.
1932, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA
United States
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Solomon Wolf Golomb was an American mathematician and engineer at the University of Southern California whose work on shift-register sequences produced the pseudorandom sequences now used throughout digital communications, radar, and GPS. He also invented polyominoes. He was Jewish, raised in a religiously observant family in Baltimore.
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Devised pseudorandom sequence generation used in communications.
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