Presented By: Department of Mathematics
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A Hollywood celebrity, the Bad Boy of Music, and the development of spread spectrum communications
When the United States entered WWII, a glamorous Hollywood actress and a renegade composer collaborated on a plan for a new type of weapon. They were awarded a patent that has become one of the most highly cited patents in the field of modern digital communications. This talk describes the colorful history behind these developments. No mathematical background is required. Speaker(s): Mark Goresky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
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