It was just announced today that the co-inventor of spread-spectrum
technology died today, or perhaps yesterday, at the age of 86. The patent for
spread-spectrum radio transmissions was issued in 1942 and was devised as a
method of making radio signals both unjammable and potentially undetectable.

Hedy Lamarr, once described as one of the world's most beautiful women, was
the inventor of spread-spectrum technology and received the patent for the
process in 1942, along with a good friend, musical composer George Antheil.
She found dead at her home in Orlando today.

Although the technique was never used in World War II, it has become
extremely common since then.

Wirt Atmar