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LA JOLLA, California — Dr. Beatrice Golomb, head of the UC San Diego Golomb Research Group, describes her father as “far and away the smartest person anyone ...

She actually had not known about JCT’s Annual Golomb Lecture until accompanying her father on a visit to Israel. She praised the college’s work to shatter stereotypes surrounding women’s lagging interest in science and technology careers, through offering academic programs specifically geared towards creating opportunities for women. I recall, as one exemplar, when an engineering colleague lamented to Sol that he had been roped into serving on a panel on jurisprudence, a subject about which he knew nothing. That statement might sound like hyperbole until you learn more about the late Professor Solomon Golomb, a Harvard University-educated mathematician known as the father of modern digital technologies, due to his ability to apply advanced mathematics to problems in digital communications. He used to joke (not really joking) that he could give a half hour lecture on any subject whatsoever. Today, Beatrice’s Golomb Research Group studies different conditions related to oxidative stress and cell energy impairments. According to Beatrice Golomb, Solomon first learned about JCT from Steve Schloss, one of his former graduate students.