President Bush Presents 2007 National Medals of Science and Technology and Innovation

MILITARY AIDE: Andrew J. Viterbi. The 2007 National Medal of Science to Andrew J. Viterbi for his development of the maximum-likelihood algorithm for convolutional coding, known as the "Viterbi algorithm," and for his contributions to Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) wireless technology that transformed the theory and practice of digital communications

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