By Robert Perkins

Andrew J. Viterbi will be presented with the prize at a gala dinner in Washington, D.C. (Photo/Ziva Santop/Steve Cohn Photography)The National Academy of Engineering will award Andrew J. Viterbi, USC trustee, Presidential Chair and professor of electrical engineering systems and namesake of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, the 2016 Charles Draper Prize for Engineering.

The prestigious distinction is accompanied by a $500,000 award. The citation reads "for development of the Viterbi algorithm, its transformational impact on digital wireless communications, and its significant applications in speech recognition and synthesis and in bioinformatics," according to the NAE announcement.

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