More then half a century after the patent was issued Hedy Lamarr was finally honored, not for being the glamorous actress that everyone thought they knew, but for being the intelligent inventor of a technology that is key to numerous wireless communications systems today. When the Electronic Frontier Foundation presented the award in 1997, Lamarr had been retired to a very private life and had not appeared in public for more than twenty years. Her son accepted the award in her name and played a tape recording she made for those present.
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