Paul Green

Paul Eliot Green, Jr. (January 14, 1924 – March 22, 2018 ) was an American electrical engineer who researched spread spectrum and radar technology. He was the son of playwright Paul Green.

Biography Green was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on January 14, 1924. Green majored in physics at the University of North Carolina. He also served in the Naval ROTC and continued in the Navy Reserve for many years, eventually retiring as a lieutenant commander. His masters studies focused on cryptographic research, and were followed by PhD from MIT (1953) from a thesis on spread spectrum, supervised by Wilbur Davenport, Robert Fano, and Jerome Wiesner. This involved co-creating the Rake receiver (with Robert Price) and supervision of its deployment in a first-ever spread-spectrum system, the Lincoln F9C (1950). He died at his home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina on March 22, 2018.

Publications Green published extensively during his career; major works include Fiber Optic Networks (1992) and Fiber to the Home: The New Empowerment (2005). Since 1981 he authored around 300 CommuniCrostics crosswords in the IEEE Communications Magazine, published as a book in 2008.

Fiber Optic Networks, 1992 Fiber to the Home: The New Empowerment, 2005 CommuniCrostics, 2008

Honors Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1962). Aerospace pioneer award (1980). Elected to the National Academy of Engineering (1982). Simon Ramo medal (1991). IEEE Communications Society president (1992–93). SIGCOMM Award (1994).