Solomon Golomb receives National Medal of Science

University Professor and Distinguished Professor Solomon Golomb has received our nation’s highest honor for scientific innovation: the National Medal of Science. In a special ceremony at the White House, President Obama praised Professor Golomb’s pioneering work on shift register sequences. The mathematical structures of these sequences—with their seemingly random strings of zeros and ones—make them tremendously useful, with applications that range from radar to cell phone systems to space communications. For this reason, Professor Golomb’s groundbreaking work touches everything from Tetris to the Mars Rovers….Continue Reading Solomon Golomb receives National Medal of Science