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Washington D.C - On Friday, one of USC’s most decorated faculty members will receive the highest honor bestowed by the United States for scientific innovation.
President Barack Obama will present University and Distinguished Professor Solomon Golomb of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering with the National Medal of Science for his advances in mathematics and communications at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.
“Sol Golomb is such a deserving recipient of this tremendously prestigious honor,” said USC President C. L. Max Nikias. “His many contributions to mathematics and engineering span more than five decades, and his mathematical coding schemes have advanced a number of important projects, including the imagery we received from Mars. USC is so proud to have been Professor Golomb’s academic home all these years.”
The official citation that will be given to him by the president praises his work on shift register sequences, random-looking sequences of 0’s and 1’s that actually have important—though hidden—mathematical structures that make them useful in a wide variety of applications from radar to cell phone systems to space communications.
Golomb will be among 12 scientists and engineers so honored by the president this year, joining the rarefied ranks of about 400 individuals who have received the award since John F. Kennedy bestowed in 1963 the
