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In response to
"Huh, I had no clue Hedy Lamarr invented Wifi frequency hopping. -- nm"
by
Ender
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i just learned a lot about Hedy Lamarr. She may be my new hero. -- (edited)
Posted by
Andie
Nov 9 '15, 07:47
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And, i loved that she did this with a composer...
"At the beginning of World War II, keen to aid the Allied war effort, Lamarr identified jamming of Allied radio communications by the Axis as a particular problem, and with composer George Antheil, developed spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat it.[7] Though the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of her work are now incorporated into modern Wi-Fi, CDMA and Bluetooth technology,[8][9][10] and this work led to her being inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014.[7][11]"
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