Robert Arno Scholtz (born c. 1936) is a distinguished professor of Electrical engineering at

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, known for

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and spread spectrum communications. See section ''2006 - Robert A. Scholtz and Moe Z. Win''. A 1958 graduate and distinguished alumnus from

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, he obtained his PhD at Stanford University in 1964. Starting his career at

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, he joined the University of Southern California in 1963. His research work centers on

Ultra Wideband Ultra-wideband (UWB, ultra wideband, ultra-wide band and ultraband) is a radio technology that can use a very low energy level for short-range, high-bandwidth communications over a large portion of the radio spectrum. UWB has traditional applicati ...

theory and

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. He has also contributed extensively to spread spectrum communication and synchronization. Scholtz is a life fellow of the

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(1980). He was also elected a member of the

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(2009) for contributions to the fields of ultra-wideband and spread-spectrum communications. He received the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award (1984), and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award (2006), together with Moe Z. Win. His past PhD. Students include information theorist Robert M. Gray and professor at

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, Moe Z. Win.

Books

*Spread Spectrum Communications (with M. K. Simon et al.), Computer Science Press, 1984. *Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook (with M. K. Simon et al.), McGraw Hill, 1994. *Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding (with S. W. Golomb and R. Peile), Plenum Press, 1994

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