American cryptanalyst and mathematician (1907–1994)
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Solomon Kullback
Born
(1907-04-03)April 3, 1907
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died
August 5, 1994(1994-08-05) (aged 87)
Boynton Beach, Florida
Alma mater
City College of New York (B.A., 1927; M.A., 1929) George Washington University (Ph.D., Mathematics, 1934)
Known for
Work in Information theory, Kullback–Leibler divergence
Scientific career
Fields
cryptanalysis, mathematics, information theory
Institutions
George Washington University, National Security Agency
Doctoral advisor
Frank M. Weida
Doctoral students
Hubert Lilliefors
Solomon Kullback (April 3, 1907 – August 5, 1994) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William F. Friedman at the US Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, along with Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov. He went on to a long and distinguished career at SIS and its eventual successor, the National Security Agency (NSA). Kullback was the Chief Scientist at the NSA until his retirement in 1962, whereupon he took a position at the George Washington University.
The Kullback–Leibler divergence is named after Kullback and Richard Leibler.
SolomonKullback (April 3, 1907 – August 5, 1994) was an American cryptanalyst and mathematician, who was one of the first three employees hired by William...
While working at the National Security Agency, he and SolomonKullback formulated the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a measure of similarity between probability...
in April 1930. Their names were Frank Rowlett, Abraham Sinkov, and SolomonKullback. Before this, all three had been mathematics teachers and none had...
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achievements in Enigma decryption, broke the Abwehr non-steckered Enigma SolomonKullback, American mathematician and cryptologist who visited Bletchley Park...
Golay codes for forward error correction 1951 – SolomonKullback and Richard Leibler introduce the Kullback–Leibler divergence 1951 – David A. Huffman invents...
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Enigma cipher as used by the Abwehr (German military intelligence). SolomonKullback US, SIS, helped break the Japanese Red cipher, later Chief Scientist...
the George Washington University in 1964 under the supervision of SolomonKullback. At the same university, he was a professor of statistics for 39 years...
naturalistic decision making Leonard Kleinrock 1957 – Internet pioneer SolomonKullback – mathematician; NSA cryptology pioneer Lewis Mumford – historian of...
September 1943 with success on the Army codes they were put under SolomonKullback in a separate branch B-II, with other mainly diplomatic work under...
success on Army codes in April, the increasing workload was put under SolomonKullback in branch B-II in September. Other mainly diplomatic work was put under...
1930; shortly after, he was followed into SIS by Abraham Sinkov and SolomonKullback. During the 1930s, after a lengthy period of training, Rowlett and...
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In the Army SIS group, the system was broken by Frank Rowlett and SolomonKullback; for the navy, Agnes Driscoll is generally credited. (She actually...
Conference in Philadelphia. Per a request by chairman Dr. Louis Ridenour, SolomonKullback appointed Buck to the National Security Agency Scientific Advisory...
(By coincidence, one of his close friends at Boys High and CCNY was SolomonKullback). Mr. Sinkov taught in New York City schools but was unhappy with the...
1135 characters long, was solved by William Friedman, assisted by SolomonKullback, Frank Rowlett and Abraham Sinkov, in 2 hours and 41 minutes. Schmeh...
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used as part of deciphering of enciphered message, and invented by SolomonKullback, but simply the first three letters of the word Chiffrierabteilung...
War II cryptologists William F. Friedman, Lambros D. Callimahos, and SolomonKullback. It published more than 50 books related to cryptology and a smaller...
1973 Herman Otto Hartley 1974 Cuthbert Daniel 1975 Herbert Solomon 1976 SolomonKullback 1977 Churchill Eisenhart 1978 William Kruskal 1979 Alexander...
racing driver. Terry Hibbitt, 46, English football player, cancer. SolomonKullback, 87, American cryptanalyst and mathematician. Frederick Wheeler, 80...
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