"Golomb, who began his career at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering in 1963 and continued to teach a freshman seminar well into his 80s, was known for his singular ability to apply advanced mathematics to problems in digital communications. Video images from the Mars Rover Curiosity owe a huge debt to Golomb’s mathematical coding schemes, enabling pristine imagery transmitted from the Mars Rovers all the way back to Earth. His work on shift-register sequences is integral to the function of cellular phones, while his cryptology research ushered in new approaches for securing communications signals." Full story: http://news.usc.edu/100264/in-memoriam-solomon-golomb-communications-technol...