Qualcomm co-founder Dr. Andrew Viterbi will be the 13th inductee into CONNECT’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame at a ceremony in March.
The hall of fame honors individuals who have achieved distinction over the years for founding, leading, or advancing a San Diego life sciences or technology-based business or organization.
Viterbi’s most prominent research contribution, and one of the most important mathematical concepts of the 20th century, the Viterbi Algorithm, is a means of separating information from background noise. It is used in most mobile phones and digital satellite receivers, as well as in the fields of magnetic recording, voice recognition and DNA sequence analysis.
Viterbi co-founded Qualcomm, now a worldwide leader in wireless technology, with Dr. Irwin Jacobs, an earlier inductee into the hall of fame.
The award will be given at a luncheon on March 19 at Estancia La Jolla.
CONNECT, founded in 1985, is a regional program that links inventors and entrepreneurs with the resources they need for success.