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Pastimes : The New Qualcomm - write what you like thread.
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To: Clarksterh who wrote (1190)12/7/1999 4:35:00 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) of 12231
 
Thanks for the patent detail Clark. Klein Gilhousen was a founding member of Qualcomm and a primary inventor of Qualcomm's CDMA technology.

Irwin Jacobs has received an important USA honour for technological achievement. Andrew Viterbi, Klein Gilhousen and our very own 'engineer' and many others have shared in creating an amazing technology which everyone [more or less] on earth will benefit from.

It seems a shame that Andrew Viterbi, whose name is used to describe various facets of the telecommunications revolution, is not also recognized as Irwin Jacobs was with the Medal for Technology, as his achievements are more important than those of people such as the one who noticed that milkmaids didn't get smallpox and that moulds killed bacteria and other 'great' scientists. Serendipity and 'discovery' is fine, important and great to have. But Andrew Viterbi and co's intellectual achievements are another realm.

The 20th century has such a vast array of technological achievements that it is sometimes easy to overlook truly important and extraordinary achievement.

Of course Irwin Jacobs as the leader and co-inventor who drew together the whole messy business of ensuring success where the sand meets the orthogonal wave functions deserved the special award he received.

Just in passing, [and correcting spelling of Gihousen],
Mqurice
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