dec 1, 1966 - Andrew Viterbi
Description:
Viterbi was later a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA and University of California, San Diego (UCSD). In 1967 he proposed the Viterbi algorithm to decode convolutionally encoded data. It is still used widely in cellular phones for error correcting codes, as well as for speech recognition, DNA analysis, and many other applications of Hidden Markov models.Added to timeline:
Date:
dec 1, 1966
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~ 58 years ago