Wirt writes:

> 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.

Okay, I'll ask the obvious question:  What good is a radio transmission that
is undetectable?  I mean, isn't that the point of a radio transmission - to
be detected?

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----- Original Message -----
From: Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 2:26 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] A death in the family


>
> 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