Education
Simon got his Doctor of Philosophy from New York University in 1966, and worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the past few decades of his life.
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Marvin Simon
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Marvin Kenneth Simon was a telecommunication engineer who has worked extensively for the last 35 years in the area of modulation, coding, and synchronization for space, satellite, radio, and military communications and also performance evaluation of wireless telecommunication systems over fading channels.
Career
The fruits of his research have been successfully applied to the design of many of National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s deep space and near-earth missions for which he has been earned 11 patents, 25 National Aeronautics and Space Administration Technical Briefs, 4 Space Acting awards, and over 200 technical papers. He died of brain cancer in September 2007. In addition, he is listed in Marquis Who"s Who in America and other similar compilations.
He was also the co-recipient of the 1986 Prize Paper Award in Communications of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Vehicular Technology for his work on trellis coded differential detection systems and the 1999 Prize Paper Award of the Vehicular Technology Conference for his work on generalized selection combining performance evaluation over fading channels.
Most recently, his paper on multiple-symbol differential detection of M-PSK was included in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Communications Society"s 50th Anniversary Journal Collection – as one of the 50 key papers published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Transactions on Communications and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, over the past 50 years.
Achievements
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He was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Fellow of the Iowa Academy of Education (International Aero Engines), and winner of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exceptional Service Medal and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal both in recognition of outstanding contributions in analysis and design of space communications systems In 1997 he was the recipient of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award for seminal contributions spanning three decades in the design and analysis of novel coherent digital communication systems, including synchronization and tracking, differential modulation and signal design, spread spectrum techniques, and trellis-coded modulation for fading channels. Most recently he was awarded the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Third Millennium Medal for outstanding contributions to communications technology.
