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Solomon Golomb

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Solomon Golomb · Technology & Engineering

What

Devised pseudorandom sequence generation used in communications.

When

1932, Baltimore, Maryland, USA — 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA

Where

United States

Biography

Solomon Golomb is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Devised pseudorandom sequence generation used in communications.

How & why

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.

1932

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Computer Science