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He received his S.M. (1943) and Ph.D. (1950) from M.I.T. where he became Assistant Professor (1949-53) and Professor (1960-82). From 1951 he worked with Lincoln Lab as leader of the research group on Communications technology. He published ''Probability and Random Processes'' (1975) and ''An Introduction to the Theory of Random Signals and Noise'' with William L. Root (1958). Davenport was elected to the National Academy Of Engineering (1975) and received the IEEE Pioneer Award (1981) for his Spread Spectrum research with Paul E. Green , Mortimer Rogoff and Louis A. DeRosa .