Engineer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Andrew Viterbi, developer of the

Viterbi algorithm and co-founder of Qualcomm Inc., recently endowed

the Viterbi Family Program in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at UCLA.

In this video, he talks about his early youth in fascist Italy;

his family's emigration to America; his cousin, renowned Italian-Jewish author Primo Levi;

the unusual experience of being an Italian Jew in the U.S.;

and the millennia of Jewish history in the Mediterranean region.