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Allen M. Peterson
Pages 182-185

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... At SRI, Peterson was a senior scientific adviser en c! was the key person in initiating en cl building up what became the Radio Physics Laboratory and the Communications Laboratory, where about three hundred people have been involves!
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... Commercial applications of digital systems developer! by Peterson and his students include a widely applied filter bank for transferring between time and frequency division multiplex signals in telecommunications systems; worIclwide sales of this and similar crevices were on the order of a billion dollars during the mid-l9SOs.
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... Peterson server! as a consultant to a number of companies en cl to the President's Science Advisory Committee, the Defense Atomic Support Agency, the A(lvancec3 Research Projects Agency, the Institute for Defense Analyses, the Office of Telecommunications, and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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