Viterbi, an Italian Jew awarded "Nobel Prize of Honor"

From The Daily Trojan:

"Legendary digital communications pioneer and namesake of USC's Viterbi School of Engineering Andrew J. Viterbi was one of eight people awarded the 2007 National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor for science and technology, at a gala Sept. 29.

Viterbi won the award for his development of the maximum-likelihood algorithm for convolutional coding, known as the "Viterbi algorithm," which is a method for solving complex mathematical problems."