Oral-History:IEEE Oral History Collection

Subcollections

Distinguished Female Leaders: Inspiring the Next Generation in STEM - This project comprises the oral histories of female leaders in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the early part of the twenty-first century as recorded by female students at the very early stages of their careers. The project took place at the Air Force Institute of Technology through NSF ADVANCE grant #0810989 to the LEADER Consortium (Launching Equity Across the Dayton Entrepreneurial Region: Following in the Footsteps of Katharine Wright)
Global Positioning System - a collection of oral histories with GPS pioneers
Frederick E. Terman Associates - In fall 1925, Terman joined the Stanford EE Department as a half-time Instructor and in 1926 he took over the Communications Laboratory Course which Henry Harrison Henline, with T. H. Morgan assisting, had begun during the previous year. These oral histories are with figures who worked closely with Terman
Human Space Travel Primary Sources - oral histories related to space travel, captured during the 2009 FOOTSTEPS effort
IEEE Communications Society - In 1999, IEEE History Center staff recorded oral histories of select IEEE Communication Society members as part of a project marking the IEEE Communication Societies fiftieth anniversary. These oral histories represent leaders of the Communications Society
IEEE Computer Society Presidents - In 2013, the Computer Society History Committee began a multi-year initiative — the IEEE Computer Society Leaders Oral History Project — to conduct and make publicly available oral history interview transcripts with past Computer Society presidents and a few Society staff members who had a significant impact on Society history
IEEE Control Systems Society - A collection of oral histories with leaders of the IEEE Control Systems Society
IEEE Council on Superconductivity - The IEEE History Center has undertaken an ongoing series of Oral Histories with prominent individuals in the field of superconductivity, the first group of which were recorded in August 2014
IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society - A collection of oral histories with leaders of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Society
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - In anticipation of the EMBS 50th Anniversary celebration in 2002, the IEEE History Center conducted numerous oral histories of leading engineers in this area
IEEE Foundation - In anticipation of the IEEE Foundation 50th Anniversary celebration in 2023, an institutional history project was undertaken wherein the IEEE History Center collects and preserves the oral histories of leading IEEE Foundation Past Presidents and Board Members
IEEE Life Fellows - Oral histories with Life Fellows of the IEEE, the highest grade conferred by the organization
IEEE Merger - The interviews listed below were conducted by George Sell in 1979 for his research on the history of the merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and the Institute of Radio Engineers to form IEEE.
IEEE Past Presidents - Oral histories with people who have served as President of the IEEE
IEEE Region 8 Oral Histories - A collection of oral histories with leaders of IEEE Region 8 (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa)
IEEE Signal Processing Society - For its 50th anniversary in 1998, the IEEE Signal Processing Society worked with the IEEE History Center to prepare a monograph outlining the history of the Society, during which a number of oral histories were conducted. For its 75th anniversary upcoming in 2023, additional interviews have been and are being conducted
IEEE Staff - Oral histories with IEEE employees reflecting on their time at the organization
IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society - A collection of interviews with pioneers in the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society
Marconi Fellows - Over the years, the IEEE History Center has recorded many oral histories with recipients of the Marconi Prize of the Marconi Society. These recipients are collectively known as Marconi Fellows.
MIT Radiation Laboratory - The IEEE History Center conducted numerous oral histories when the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the Rad Lab with a reunion for Rad Lab alumni and special historical sessions at its annual meeting, held in Boston on June 11-14, 1991. The staff of the IEEE History Center, with guidance and direct assistance from the IEEE History Committee, conudcted oral history interviews with a cross-section of the people who worked at the Rad Lab.
National Science Foundation (NSF) - In the early 1990s, the IEEE History Center conducted a series of oral history Interviews to document the history of National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for computing and computer science research
Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Recipients - The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering is a global £1 million prize that celebrates a ground-breaking innovation in engineering
RCA Engineers - The RCA Engineers Interviews collection is a series of oral histories conducted by Mark Heyer and Al Pinsky of RCA Laboratories in the mid-1970s. The collection does not necessarily contain every interview with an alum of RCA that can be found in the Center's collection
Robotics History: Narratives and Networks - Beginning in 2010, the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, together with the School of Informatics and Computer Science at Indiana University, undertook a major robotics history project, “Robotics History: Narratives and Networks." Selma Šabanović of Indiana University was the principal investigator and led the project team. One of the major goals of the project was to document the development of robotics as a scientific field through an extensive program of oral histories with major figures in the field. More than one hundred oral histories were completed between 2010 and 2015
Westinghouse Electronic Systems - In 2009-2010 The IEEE History Center undertook a joint project with the National Electronics Museum of Linthicum, Maryland to use oral history to document the history of the Westinghouse Electronic Systems Division of Baltimore, Maryland
Women in Computing - A major part of Dr. Janet Abbate's research in 2001-2003 was conducting fifty-two oral histories with American and British women in computing for her book Recoding Gender: Women’s Changing Participation in Computing
IEEE Computer Society World of Computing - Initiated in 2020, by the IEEE Computer Society History Committee, this program presents the breadth of computing in the modern world. It demonstrates the wide diversity of people involved, varieties of research and development conducted, products and services built, and types of organizations created for or enabled by computing and information technologies worldwide

Group interviews

Bailey, James J., and Dunn, Rosalie - surveys developments and people in electrocardiography from the 1950s to about 1980. Dunn's role is as a statistician and Bailey evaluates the results of tests.
Beverage, Harold H., and Peterson, Harold O. - Harold Beverage, known for his pioneering research in early radio, was the former director of radio research for RCA Laboratories, Dr. Peterson was formerly in charge of the Reception Laboratory at Riverhead.
Byford, Mick; Williams, Robert; and Winton, Bob - In the interview, the three discuss the motivation for founding the UKRI Section as an alternative to an IEE dominated by "heavy" electrical engineers; the sometimes tense, but generally amicable relation with the IEE and other national societies; the differences between the transnational IEEE and IEE; the working relationship between section volunteers and IEEE staff; the founding of Region 8; political, cultural and linguistic issues within Region 8; and the governance, finances and services of Region 8.
Davies, Donald, and Barber, Derek - Donald Davies was a Welsh computer scientist who was a co-inventor of packet switching (and originator of the term), Derek L.A. Barber was a deputy at NPL before becoming chair of the European Information Network and eventually moving to Logica, in the private sector.
Fowler, Kathryn, and Fowler, Charles - at the MIT Rad Lab, Charles worked on the Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) system and Kathryn assisted mathematicians on the Marchand mechanical calculating machines.
Goldey, James; Hittinger, William; and Tanenbaum, Morris - the panel members discuss the events leading up to the development of the silicon diffused-base transistor. They touch on the disadvantages of germanium, the difficulty of purifying silicon, and the influence of other researchers. In the second session, they focus on devices, in particular the PNPN diode and its development by Shockley, as well as the hybrid integrated circuit and its ultimate displacement by CMOS technology.
Kazato, Kenji and Ito, Kazuo - Founders of JEOL, which specializes in the design and manufacture of electron microscopes.
Kellerman, Richard, and Kocher, Alix - Richard Kellerman and Alix Kocher are co-founder and current CEO, respectively, of Nielsen Kellerman (NK), a company that produces sports performance monitors and weather instruments. The company was started in 1978 by Kellerman and Paul Nielsen – co-workers at Xerox Corporation – after Rowing Coach Ted Nash from the University of Pennsylvania brought broken pieces of rowing equipment to them, leading Kellerman and Nielsen to devise their own products for the sport of competitive rowing, eventually creating the CoxBox. The company has expanded to manufacture not only rowing equipment, but other sports products as well as weather instruments used in various circumstances such as firefighting.
Rajchman, Jan, and Hoagland, Albert S. - Dr. Jan Rajchman's pioneering career in electronics contributed enormously to computer technology and data processing, Dr. Albert Hoagland has contributed a great deal to computer data recording.
Rhee, Tae-Won, and Kim, Duck-Jin - At the Korea University Rhee directed the University's computing center and its Research Institute for Information and Communication Technology (RIICT). In 1988, he served as president of KITE, the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics. Kim worked as a research engineer for the Atomic Energy Research Institute, and he worked on the restructuring of the Korean Institute of Electronic Engineers, the predecessor of KITE. In 1985 Kim served as president of this organization, which would later become IEEK, the Institute of the Electronics Engineers of Korea.
Van Deerlin, Lionel, and Jackson, Charles - Democratic Representative Lionel Van Deerlin of California and his aide, electrical engineer Charles Jackson, helped create the proposed Communications Act of 1980. This bill was a Congressional attempt to alter the regulation guidelines set forth in the 1934 Communications Act. The new bill addresses nearly fifty years of change in the telecommunications industry, including the advent of computers, lasers, and fiber optics.

Individual subject interviews

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Aatre, Vasudev K. - IEEE Fellow in 2002 “for leadership in research and development for strategic electronics and defense systems.”, director of the Defense Research and Development Organization and science advisor to the defense minister
Abajian, Henry B. - worked at MIT Rad Lab in the 1940s and provided systems support and training for the SCR-584
Acero, Alex - IEEE Fellow, President of IEEE Signal Processing Society (2014-2015), member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Foundation. Leads the speech team in Siri, Apple’s personal assistant for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Carplay; and he is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering at the University of Washington.
Adcock, Willis - involved with Texas Instrument’s development of the portable, transistor radio for Regency Radio, their supply of transistors to IBM, and their supply of transistors to the military as compact electronics for their Atlas and Minuteman missiles
Adler, Michael - 2003 IEEE President, worked for GE, including the Insulated Gate Bipolor Transistor (IGBT), high voltage power MOSFET’s, and the High Voltage Integrated Circuit (HVIC)
Adler, Norbert - worked in the patents department of Siemens, from 1960 to 1985 he managed consumer appliances for the living room
Aiken, William Ross - inventor of the thin cathode-ray tube, an early version of "flat-screen television" developed for armed forces airplanes and helicopters
Alami, Rachid - director of Robotics and A.I. research at the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS) of the CNRS, the French National Research Center at the University of Toulouse
Alexander, Charles - 1997 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow and educator at Tennessee Tech, Temple University, Cal State Northridge and Cleveland State
Allaire, Royal P. - worked at MIT Rad Lab on transforming magnetron, cathode, etc. tubes, from design to production readiness
Allan, David W. - worked for 32 years at NBS/NIST in Boulder, CO and developed the Allan variance, the Modified Allan variance and the Time variance, all three of which became international standards
Allen, Frances Fran - an expert on compilers for high-performance computing, Allen worked at IBM and published on optimization, interprocedural analysis and automatic parallelization
Altshuler, Edward - IEEE Life Fellow for "for contributions to the understanding of tropospheric effects on millimeter wave propagation", Chair of the IEEE Boston Section of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 1965-1966.
Ambrose, Robert - Principal Investigator of the Game Changing Development Program at the NASA Johnson Space Center, and head of NASA's Robonaut project
Amm, Kathleen - head of the Superconducting Magnet Division at Brookhaven National Lab
Anderson, Brian - Professor and Head of the Department of Systems Engineering, and later as Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at Australian National University
Anderson, Deborah - researched the Dayton code breaking project, and her father's, Joseph Desch's contributions to information technology
Anderson, W. Cleon - 2005 IEEE President, worked for Sperry, Univac, Unisys, Loral, Lockheed Martin and L3 Communications
Anderson, Wes - worked on magnetometers and on NMR spectrometers and was the Systems and Techniques Lab director at Varian
Andrei, Eva - an experimental condensed matter physicist recognized for her work on low dimensional electron systems, including two-dimensional electrons on helium, magnetically induced Wigner crystal in semiconductor heterojunctions and vortices in superconductors
Andrews, Fred - President of the IEEE Communications Society, 1986-1987. He was elected to IEEE Fellow grade in 1973 for "contributions to digital transmission and to systems, and to transmission objectives and standards."
Angwin, Bruce - graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and has worked at GE and other locations like Oakridge, Fermilab, Los Alamos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Angwin also served as IEEE Region 6 Director from 1964-1966 and has been involved in Wescon since its origins in the 1940s
Arai, Tatsuo - IEEE Life Fellow and Osaka University full professor in the Department of Systems Innovation and past Vice President of IAARC, Chair of the Robotics and Mechatronics Division of JSME, and a Director of RSJ
Arbib, Michael - Arbib's work has focused on the intersection of theoretical neuroscience and computer science, and the influence of that intersection on the field of robotics
Arkin, Ronald - IEEE Life Fellow, has spent most of his career at Georgia Tech, where he is currently Regents' Professor, Director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory, and Associate Dean for Research and Space Planning. Much of his work is in robot ethics and deception. He is also known for his corporate consulting, especially his decades-long work for SONY on the AIBO and QRIO robots
Arzbaecher, Robert - Worked in teaching before transitioning into biomedical engineering. He worked on theoretical electrocardiography, invented the swallowable pill electrode, and founded the Arzco Medical Systems with his family
Asada, Minoru - IEEE Life Fellow, earned a Ph.D. in control engineering from Osaka University in 1982. In 1997, he became a graduate professor in the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems at Osaka University. His research focuses on “computer vision,” or pattern recognition, and the structure of motion in mobile robots, image processing, and robotic behaviors
Ash, Eric - Electrical engineer who has specialized in electron optics and ultrasonics
Aspray, William - In 1989, Aspray became director of the IEEE History Center, and during his tenure created a bigger oral history program, started Center conferences, and built an international presence for the History Center
Astrom, Karl - Aström has made many practical applications of control theory, including work with artificial intelligence, ship steering, water treatment plants, and heating and air conditioning systems. He is the recipient of the Callender Silver Medal from the Institute of Measurement and Control in London, and is an IEEE Life Fellow
Atal, Bishnu - IEEE Life Fellow and an Affiliate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. He retired in March 2002 after working for more than forty years at Lucent Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs. He was a Technical Director at the AT&T Shannon Laboratory, Florham Park, New Jersey, from 1997 to 2002 and the Head of the Acoustics and Audio Communication Research Department at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, in 1996
Atkeson, Chris - Professor at the Robotics Institute and Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University
Atkinson, T. Scott - 2003 IEEE Central Texas Section chair, active volunteer in the IEEE Communications Society, from 1961 to 1967, he was a communications officer in the United States Air Force, and he is a retired Lt. Col., United States Air Force as a Staff Communications Officer. From July 1967 to March 1968, he worked as a communications engineer with Lockheed Electronics Company on a contract with the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas where he supported the testing of the Apollo spacecraft communications sub-system. In 1973, he joined Tenneco Inc, Houston, Texas, spending fourteen years performing engineering tasks on their telecommunication systems. His last major work activity was as a senior technical support specialist for the United Services Automobile Association (USAA) in San Antonio, Texas (1989-1997).
Auerbacher, Werner F. - taught at the Radio Television Institute where he provided both educational training for the army and technical guidance to the U.S. Government, which secured Auerbacher's U.S. citizenship so that he could contribute to the Radio Television Institute's defense projects. After World War II, Auerbacher returned to Pilot to work on FM converters and televisions, and later joined Emerson working on a variety of government projects, specifically in the field of magnetics
Aylor, James - IEEE Life Fellow and an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, was president of the Computer Society in 1993. His research focuses on digital design and he is an innovator in the development of VHDL, the VHSIC Hardware Description Language used for describing digital hardware

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Baal-Schem, Jacob - served as chair of the Life Members Chapter Group in Israel and served as the IEEE Israel Section Chair from 1978 to 1981 and Region 8's History Activities Coordinator. For his many contributions to IEEE, Baal-Schem received the Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award of 1987 for his involvment in initiating MELECON in 1981, and the IEEE Region 8 Volunteer Award in 2008
Babb, Albert Les - Worked in chemical, nuclear, and biochemical engineering and made his most significant contributions applying the latter for medical advancements
Bachman, Charles - worked with torn tape systems at Dow Chemical in the 1950s, developed a manufacturing control system at General Electric in the 1960s, and on databases and distributed systems while working for Honeywell in the 1970s
Bachman, Henry - 1987 IEEE President, an IEEE Life Fellow, and an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, is an industrial engineer and senior manager with Wheeler Laboratories. As IEEE President he oversaw the IEEE adoption of approval voting for institute elections
Bacon, Jean - IEEE Life Fellow, helped establish computer science as an academic discipline. She is currently Professor of Distributed Systems at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Director of Studies in Computer Science at Jesus College, and heads the Opera Research Group
Baim, Robert - Worked in many Westinghouse positions, including as a test supervisor, positions in sales engineering and program management and as Director of Business and Technology Development. Projects he worked on included BOMARC, Minute Man Missile, Univac, F-15 radar, APQ-120, MIFASS and Comanche
Bainbridge, Kenneth T. - Performed administrative tasks at the MIT Rad Lab such as arranging housing for incoming scientists, recruiting scientists, and his main responsibility, which was heading up the modulator group
Bajcsy, Ruzena (2002) - IEEE Life Fellow, has long been a member of the ECE Department at UC-Berkeley. While her previous research centered on robotics and automation, her current focus is on artificial intelligence; biosystems and computational biology; control, intelligent systems, and robotics; graphics and human-computer interaction, computer vision; and security
Bajcsy, Ruzena (2010)
Baker, Edythe - Worked as an assistant to Dr. Lee A. Dubridge, director of the MIT Radiation Laboratory.
Bakken, Earl - Bakken constructed the world’s first self-contained pacemaker, an electronic device that provides a normal heartbeat through electronic stimulation of the heart muscle
Bala, Kavita - Dean of Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University. She co-founded GrokStyle, a visual recognition AI company, which drew IKEA as a client, and was acquired by Facebook in 2019
Balde, Jack - worked at Western Electric on airborne radar, underwater sonar, and navigational systems autopilots, hearing aids, and other military subjects up to ca. 1958. From 1956 on he taught at Western Electric’s in-house graduate engineering program, where he taught radar systems designing, engineering statistics, human factors engineering, and other systems design
Baliga, B. Jayant - joined General Electric Company where he invented, developed, and commercialized the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and spearheaded commercialization of wideband semiconductor integrated circuits. IGBTs are integrated widely in consumer, industrial, lighting, transportation, medical, renewable energy, and other technologies
Bang, Jens - son of Peter Bang, was born in 1935 and graduated from the technical university in Copenhagen in 1958. After employment with General Electric in the United States, Bang returned to Denmark in 1963 and worked in product management for Bang and Olufsen
Baran, Paul - Electrical engineer who is most well-known for his role in the development of packet-switching networks
Barrette, C.E. - commanding officer of the Attachment 3, 805th Signal Service Company and was in charge of the maintenance and operation of the SIGSALY system in Algiers, North Africa during World War II
Barrow, Bruce - founding member of the IRE Benelux Section and elevated to IEEE Fellow in 1970 “for contributions to the field of standardization and to communication theory and practice.”
Barthold, Lionel - power engineer whose technical and business work at General Electric led him to found his own power studies company, Power Technologies Incorporated (PTI)
Bartik, Jean - Among the first generation of women programmers, Bartik worked on the ENIAC and UNIVAC computers
Bartlett, Thomas - after taking low-level jobs at the AIEE, he studied accounting at night school and was elevated to an accounting position. From there, he rose to the head of accounting operations at AIEE and stayed on with the IEEE after the merger of the AIEE and IRE in 1963
Bassingthwaighte, James - The originator of the Human Physiome Project and former director at the Center for Bioengineering at the University of Washington, his research has combined physiology and biomedical engineering
Beck, Arnold - telecommunications engineer who was a research engineer at Hughes and STC and then taught electrical engineering at Cambridge University until his retirement. He received his degree from University College in London, and then went to work at Henry Hughes and Sons where he worked on various electronics projects and early klystron research. During World War II, he joined the naval scientific service and worked at the H.H. Wills physics lab
Bedi, Joyce - Senior Historian Emerita, at the Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History. In this oral history, Bedi discusses her education and career, especially her employment, during the 1980s, as Curator and later, Acting Directory (two years) of the IEEE History Center (at that time it was the Center for the History of Electrical Engineering).
Bekey, George - IEEE Life Fellow, spent forty years on the engineering faculty of the University of Southern California. He has played major roles in the fields of robotic prosthetics, human robot interaction, and robot ethics
Bellanger, Maurice - received his undergraduate degree in electronics engineering in 1965 from Ecole Nationale Superiéure Des Télécommunications. He joined Télécommunications, Radioélectriques and Téléphoniques [TRT], a subsidiary of Phillips Communications, in 1967 and since then has worked on digital signal processing and its applications in telecommunications
Beltrami, Ottorino - joined the Commercial Division of Olivetti in 1950 and became managing director of Olivetti General Electric in 1964 when GE bought the Computer Division. He stepped down in 1970, when GE sold the division to Honeywell, but returned to Olivetti in 1971 to oversee its transition from mechanical calculators (and similar equipment) to electronics
Benjamin, Ralph - worked for the Scientific Civil Service at the Admiralty Surface Weapons Establishment (ASWE). He moved to the Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment (AUWE) and was involved in developing information, intelligence, and military (torpedoes, submarines, etc.) technologies. After the seven-year's work at the AUWE, Benjamin started a new career at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Cheltenham, UK. He carried out Signals Intelligence tasks and developed a speech security system and an encryption system. When he retired from the GCHQ post, Benjamin joined NATO and got an appointment to the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers of Europe (SHAPE) Technical Center as Head of the Communications Technique branch
Bensoussan, Alain - completed his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Paris in 1969. He is an IEEE Life Fellow whose research interests include control theory, applied mathematics, analysis and stochastic processes, and automatic and applied mathematics. For his contributions to the field, he has received several awards and honors, including the 2014 W. T. & Idalia Reid Prize from SIAM
Beranek, Leo (1996) - worked with Professor Hunt as his assistant at Harvard University’s Cruft Laboratory. Beranek began work on a sound control project for the U.S. National Defense Research Committee in 1940, attempting to control vibration and sound in aircraft used in the war effort. The Kamikaze pilot dilemma of World War II initiated Beranek’s second defense project, the effort to speed up marine on-board communications. Beranek, with co-founders Bolt and Newman, started Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN) in 1948
Beranek, Leo (2005)
Berman, Fran - an expert in parallel and grid computing, has spent her professional career in Academics, first at Purdue and then at the Unviersity of California at San Diego
Berners-Lee, Mary - A mathematician and computer programmer who worked in a team that developed programs for Manchester University’s series of Ferranti Mark 1 computers
Berners-Lee, Tim - Known as the inventor of the World Wide Web
Beverage, Harold H. - pioneer of radio engineering, particularly of antennas and trans-oceanic transmission. The Beverage antenna was the first wave antenna. As a GE and RCA engineer Beverage developed more than 40 patents and received several professional honors
Bidard, Rene - was employed at Compagnie Électro-Mécanique in 1934, became chief engineer in the aftermath of World War II, and worked with the company until its 1983 acquisition by the Alsthom company
Biegelmeier, Gottfried - started his career in the testing laboratories of the Austrian Association of Electricity Companies and the Federal Research Institute Arsenal. From 1957 onwards he worked as a consulting engineer authorized by the state of Austria, and was in charge of the R&D department for low voltage switchgear at Felten & Guilleaume Austria
Black, Harold S. - invented the negative feedback amplifier, revolutionizing the field of electronics. Black began experimenting with telecommunications systems in his youth and received a BSS in electrical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1921. Recruited before his graduation, Black joined the labs at Western Electric Company in July 1921. After undergoing the company’s training program, he joined the Systems Engineering Department, where his projects included carrier system design
Bledsoe, Woodrow Wilson - Worked on automated theorem proving and helped found the artificial intelligence firm Panoramic Research Inc.
Blicq, Ron - wrote manuals for the U.S. Air Force and the RCAF on the installation and maintenance of early warning defense systems. In 1967 Blicq was offered the position of head of the Technical Communication Department at Red River College in Winnipeg, Canada. Blicq developed the program in technical writing and presentation and published the textbook Technically-Write! during his twenty-three year tenure at Red River
Blinchikoff, Herman - Worked on electronic filters that were used in a wide range of Westinghouse projects
Bloch, Martin - designed timing on fuses, oscillators and crystal filters for guidance systems. Bloch left Bulova to found Frequency Electronics, Inc. in 1962 and as of 2020 is the Executive Chairman and Chief Scientist of Frequency Electronics, Inc. (FEI). Bloch is the recipient of the 1992 Sawyer Award of the IEEE UFFC Society
Bloembergen, Nicolaas - received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1983, "For pioneering contributions to Quantum Electronics including the invention of the three-level maser." He shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur L. Schawlow and Kai Siegbahn for their contributions to the development of laser spectroscopy
Bobrow, Jim - a long time professor at University of California-Irvine, has spent the greater part of his career developing robots for use in patient rehabilitation
Bolles, Bob - Bolles has long been a researcher at SRI international. His work has focused on the combined areas of robotics and computer vision
Bond, Susan - Bond’s career in computing at the Royal Radar Establishment included work on the Radar Automatic Computer and ALGOL 68 compiler
Boone, Gary - At Texas Instruments, he designed custom chips for business and industrial customers, notably the TMS-100. He had departed Texas Instruments in 1972 to develop microcontrollers at Litronix, then joined the Electronics Division of Ford Motor Company, where he assisted the transition of automobile engines toward greater digital control. In 1982, he founded MicroMethods
Bordogna, Joseph - 1998 IEEE President, Bordogna was active in the AIEE and the IRE while in graduate school at MIT. He worked on radar, semiconductors, and lasers at RCA and spent time with Applied Research at RCA in Camden, New Jersey. In 1964, Bordogna transitioned into academia and devoted his efforts to teaching, research, and professional activities and service focused on education, the National Science Foundation, and IEEE
Borg, Anita - Opening the field of computing to women, Borg founded three professional organizations for women in technology: the online community Systers, the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and the Institute for Women and Technology
Bosch, Berthold - From 1956 to 1957, he held an AEG Foreign Scholarship at the Electronics Department of the University of Southampton. During 1958-1960, as a Research Assistant at the same department, he was engaged in work on microwave-tube noise. From 1960 to 1972, he was with AEG Telefunken in Ulm, Germany, where he occupied various posts in the Tube Works and in the Research Institute, eventually becoming Head of the Electronics Department in the latter institution
Bradski, Gary - co-founder of Industrial Perception, the founder of OpenCV, one of the largest computer vision libraries in the world, and is a consulting professor with Stanford University
Brantley, Chris - Brantley began a nearly thirty-five-year career at IEEE-USA (1989-2023) as Administrator, Technology Policy in June 1989, and was later promoted to Senior Administrator, Manager of Government Activities, and Director of Government Relations and Operations, before being named Managing Director in April 2004. He served as the Managing Director of IEEE-USA for eighteen years (2004 to 2022) and one year as Assisting IEEE Executive Director on strategic projects and supporting IEEE-USA managing director transition.
Briskman, Robert - IEEE Life Fellow, received his undergraduate engineering degree from Princeton University. A member of Army ROTC, he trained for the U.S. Army Signal Corps and conducted intelligence work during the Cold War. Much of his career has been devoted to satellites, radio astronomy, and military, space, and civilian communications
Brockett, Roger - founded the Harvard Robotics Laboratory in 1983 and is the the An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a recipient of the 1991 the IEEE Control Systems Award, and the 2009 IEEE Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
Bruch, Herbert - member of the Board of Grundig AG in Germany. He received his PhD in Physics in 1964. He spent his career working in the R&D department at Grundig. The interview first describes Bruch’s career at Grundig. Bruch then focuses on the innerworkings of the R&D department. He describes Grundig’s relationship with their suppliers and the use of cross-license. He explains how the R&D department develops customized components
Bruel, Per - started the Brüel & Kjær instrumentation company with Viggo Kjær, a colleague from the University of Copenhagen
Bruyninckx, Herman - spent most of his career at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, where he has studied problems such as the integration of vision and force control
Bubenko, Janis - took industrial employment with Riga Electrical Utility while continuing at the Latvia University as a lecturer. Working at the Riga Electrical Utility through 1944, Bubenko planned the power distribution system. He fled to Sweden in 1944 where he worked on lighting and electrical power installation and on laboratory design for four years before spending six months working in South Africa in 1949. Returning to Sweden, Bubenko worked at Chalmers University and received a licentiate degree in distribution planning
Buckley, Merrill - 1992 IEEE President, Buckley spent his career as an engineer and manager at RCA. While 1984 IEEE Vice President for Regional Activities, he planned the centennial convocation that became the model for IEEE Section Congresses. As IEEE President, he directed much of his attention to improving professional activities for the working engineer
Burden, Richard - independent communications engineer best known for his work in FM and TV stereo systems. After graduating from RCA Institutes in 1952 he taught radar at Fort Monmouth as a civilian and as a corporal, and then served for a year with Armed Forces Radio in New York. After his military service, he worked at General Precision Laboratory until 1960, when he resigned and began work as an independent engineer, working primarily on a variety broadcast systems applications. He has served on a wide variety of radio-related standards committees
Burdick, Joel - long time faculty member at Cal Tech, has focused his work in several areas, including medical applications, especially for the treatment of paralytics, and space exploration work for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Burks, Arthur - Worked on the design of ENIAC and later chaired and helped found the Department of Computer and Communication Sciences at University of Michigan
Burrus, C. Sidney - decided to go into digital signal processing with Tom Parks and started the first course in Digital Signal Processing in 1968 at Rice University; they looked at filters and algorithms in DSP
Bussgang, Julian - IEEE Life Fellow, worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1951-1955) and at RCA Aerospace Division (1955-1962) where he first served as Manager of Radar Development and later as Manager of Applied Research. Leaving RCA in 1962, he founded Signatron, Inc., an electronics company, and served as its president (1962-1985)
Butler, Joe - built his career as an EMC engineer, at RCA Aerospace, Raetheon, and Chomerics, working mainly on military projects. He was president of the IEEE EMC society in 2000-2001.

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Cahalan, Joe - As a child, his family lived in the basement of the Brokaw Mansion, then IRE headquarters, who managing the day-to-day work of maintaining the building. He retired as Vice President of Communications and Social Responsibility and President of the Xerox Foundation
Cain, James Thomas, 1995 IEEE President, Cain received his education and spent his career in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Pittsburgh. As IEEE President, he led IEEE further into electronic publishing through IEEE publishing its own CD-ROMs of its Journals
Campbell, Archie - During his forty-year career at the University of Cambridge, Campbell pioneered the so-called "Campbell technique" for investigating the penetration of flux in bulk superconductors and, together with late Professor Jan Evetts, authored in 1972 the subject-defining monograph “Flux pinning in Type II superconductors” (Adv. Phys. 21, 199, 1972).
Campbell, Betty - worked as a computer programmer at MIT’s Radiation Laboratory. She participated in research projects with the Theory Group, Joint Computing Group, and Nuclear Science Lab, and helped to develop the 704 and Whirlwind computers
Candlin, Rosemary - the director of studies in the Computer Science department at the University of Edinburgh, Candlin helped establish computing as an academic discipline. After teaching, she went on to work for the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva
Caplan, Norm - spent most of his career at the U. S. National Science Foundation, where he administered programs that funded a wide range of robotics projects. He was also one of the founders and later served as president of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Carassa, Francesco - joined Magneti Marelli, the leading Italian radio communications company. At Magneti Marelli, Carassa played significant roles in radio relay development and experimentation, and he directed the company's research laboratory. After fifteen years of employment at Magneti Marelli, Carassa became Chair for Radios and Relays at Polytechnic of Milano in 1962
Cardullo, Mario - Registered Professional Engineer and an American inventor with multiple patents, most notably for the modern RFID in 1969 (patented in 1970 and issued in Jan 1973). He received a BME and an MME from NYU-Poly, an MEA degree from George Washington University, and a Ph.D. in IT from George Mason University. Dr. Cardullo has served as a professor and written multiple textbooks, and has been instrumental in establishing several businesses
Carlisle, Brian - long been a leader in the development and sale of robots for industrial applications, co-founding and leading several companies, including Vicarm, Adept Technologies, and Precise Automation
Carter, Emily - Between 1988 to 2004, Carter was employed by the University of California, Los Angeles, where she held professorships in Chemistry and Materials Science. Carter is the Dean of the Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment, and a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton University
Casals, Alicia - professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and has done work on robotics object recognition
Casazza, Jack - power engineer best known for his management of gas and electric systems at Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) in New Jersey
Cerf, Vinton - Marconi Fellow, an IEEE Life Fellow, and an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, played a significant role in the setup of ARPANET and developed the Transmission Controlled Protocol (TCP) with Bob Kahn
Chadwick, John - worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), where he spent his entire 40+ year career with them. He spent two years in the engineer training program, five years as a field test engineer in Bowling Green, KY, was area supervisor at Bowling Green till 1960, then transferred out of the field and to an office job in the Electrical Engineering and Design Branch in Chattanooga
Chaffee, Milton - Worked on power supply for Microwave Early Warnings (MEW) at the MIT Rad Lab
Chance, Britton - Head of the Precision Instruments Group at the MIT Rad Lab and member of the steering committee. He was also a sailing Olympic gold medalist
Chang, Carl - IEEE Fellow, Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State University. He received a PhD in computer science from Northwestern University in 1982, and worked for GTE Automatic Electric and Bell Laboratories before joining the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. He joined Iowa State University in 2002, and served three terms as department chair. He has also served as President of the IEEE Computer Society in 2004
Chapuis, Robert - attended the Ecole Polytechnique for his post-secondary education. During World War Two he helped train French army men in artillery firing, and was an officer in the Colonial Army. He returned to the Polytechnique in 1941 and entered the telecommunications field. In 1944 Chapuis worked with the French Long Lines under the Occupation. After the war he worked for the CCIF, the international telephone company, and so moved to Geneva, Switzerland. Chapuis focused on signaling and remained with the group throughout its transformation into the CCITT. He travelled internationally, helping negotiate standards for international telephone service, and writing policy papers for CCITT decisions. Chapuis helped design international switching systems during the 1960s. He retired in 1984 and helped create a 500,000 line switching system in Saudi Arabia, as well as writing and publishing papers
Chatila, Raja - spent most of his career with CNRS in Paris. His research encompasses a broad range of topics, especially creating an understanding of the interactions and applications of autonomous and cognitive robotics
Chato, John C. - Professor of Mechanical, Biological, and Nuclear Engineering for over 30 years at the University of Illinois. His primary focus was on heat transfer research
Chen, Li-Chyong - Research Fellow in the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS) at National Taiwan University (NTU). In 1981, she received her B.S. in Physics from NTU, and in 1989 was awared a Ph. D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University. She then joined the Material Research Center at General Electric Corporate Research and Development and returned to Taiwan in 1994 as an Associate Research Fellow and was promoted to her current position in 2000. She is now leading the Advanced Materials Laboratory in the CCMS at NTU
Chien, Shu - Originally in physiology, he transitioned to biophysics. His many accomplishments include being the founding chair of the Department of Biological Engineering at UCSD and president of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering
Chodorow, Marvin - a physicist who worked with microwaves, Klystrons, and particle accelerators. He also served as the head of Stanford's Department of Applied Physics.
Choset, Howie - robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 1996. His research focuses on flexible snake robots, especially their application to medical robotics such as minimally invasive surgery
Chung-Graham, Fan - After working as a research manager at Bell Labs, Chung-Graham accepted teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania and UC San Diego, where she is currently a professor
Cioffi, John - Considered by many in the field as the “father of DSL”
Clade, Jacques - joined Électricité de France in 1956. His early work focused on the practical problems of rapidly expanding the capacity of France's electrical transmission system in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He also worked on the project of linking French and British power systems via a cross channel cable. He was appointed technical director for transmission equipment in 1970 and assistant director of EDF international in 1983
Clapp, Judy - began her long career as programmer on the MIT Whirlwind Computer Project, and then spent most of her career with the MITRE corporation on a series of computer projects for the U.S. Government
Clarke, John - After a postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley (1968-1969), he joined the Physics faculty, and he has been a member of the Physics Department since 1969. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1983 and he was the UC Berkeley Faculty Research Lecturer in 2005. Clarke’s research fields are condensed matter physical and materials science. His principal area of research is the development, noise limitations, and applications of Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs).
Coales, John - joined the Admiralty Scientific Civil Service, which led him by chance to electronics and radar R&D for the Royal Navy. Coales’s contributions to the radar project, digital computer development, and control engineering, characterized his long career with the Admiralty Scientific Service, the Elliots’ Boreham Wood laboratory, and finally his academic work and research at Cambridge University
Cohen, Maxine - IEEE Senior Member and IEEE Life Member, her primary teaching focus at Nova Southern University has been Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), but she has taught other graduate courses. Cohen views HCI broadly, and her doctoral students have worked on various HCI-related issues, including website design, medical devices and telemedicine, virtual worlds, technology and seniors, privacy enhancing technologies and privacy policy legislation, gender issues, security issues, and trust in e-commerce applications
Colton, Clark - Inspired by Ed Merrill, his research focused on biomedical applications of chemical engineering. His thesis was hemodialysis (within the field of mass transfer), involving diffusion in blood, diffusion through dialysis membranes, convective transport, and analysis of performance, and later became a professor at MIT
Concordia, Charles - In 1926 Concordia joined the General Electric Company, where he worked on early television research and continued his engineering education by taking classes at Union College. Five years later he joined GE's test program, an advanced engineering course. Concordia began focusing on systems engineering and electric utility work, and became GE's consultant to public utilities, advising on system protection and reliability. During World War Two Concordia worked on generators and turbines for naval destroyer propulsion, researched superchargers for airplanes, and helped develop ships' electrical drives
Conner, David A. - taught at four universities and served as the founding chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, IEEE Region 3 direcctor from 1992-93 and held many offices in IEEE, including Institute treasurer
Constantinides, Anthony - taught at Imperial College, and made his career in the field of digital filter design, organizing the Digital Filtering Symposium (biennial from 1967), European associations (European Association for Signal Processing) and journals in digital filtering (ca. 1970), seminars, teaching graduate students, and doing research of his own (lately modeling signals which are non-stationary, non-Gaussian, non-linear operations)
Cooley, James W. - developed the FFT through mathematical theory and applications, and has helped make it more widely available by devising algorithms for scientific and engineering applications. Cooley was a member of IEEE's Digital Signal Processing Committee from 1965 to 1979, and helped plan the Arden House conferences on digital signal processing
Coombs, Mary - As a programmer at J. Lyons & Co., Coombs worked on LEO, the first computer used for commercial business applications
Cooper, Betty - While at J. Lyons & Co., Cooper worked as a programmer on LEO I and LEO II, among the earliest computers used for commercial business applications, and wrote the Braille program for both projects
Cooper, Warren - worked at Airborne Instruments Laboratory, 1948-54, Maryland Electronics, 1954-58 (adapting Identification Friend or Foe radar antennas for civil aviation identification), and Westinghouse, 1958-86. At Westinghouse he invented a system to screen out radar echo off of water at shore-side airports, Boost-phase Antiballistic Missile System (BAMBI) (an unsuccessful system), work on countermeasures, receiver protectors, airborne and satellite radar, and Terminal Imaging Radar
Coppersmith, Susan - Specializing in theoretical condensed matter physics, Coppersmith has worked at Bell Labs, was a Professor of physics at the University of Chicago
Corke, Peter - spent twenty-five years at the Australian Government research agency CSIRO, where much of his work focused on the applications of robotics in mining and vision based robot control, also known as video servoing. Since 2010, he has been on the faculty of Queensland University of Technology
Corry, Andrew - took a job with the Boston Edison Company in 1947. Corry's work with Boston Edison included both technical work on such things as underground cables and atomic power, but also professional duties as a member of CIGRE, IEEE, and the Electric Research Council
Cory, William E. - IEEE Life Fellow, introduced to the field of EMC through his work in defense. He worked as an engineer for the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed, and the Southwest Research Institute
Cowell, Wayne - Mathematician who worked on software packages for solving specific classes of equations
Cox, Donald - spent three years as a Communications Research and Development Officer at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, working on the X-20 Dynasoar, then went to Stanford University for his PhD (1967). He worked at Bell Labs from 1967 to the AT&T divestiture in 1983, to Bellcore until 1993, managing radio research activity, and then to Stanford as a Professor of Electrical Engineering
Craig, John - worked with several different robotics groups and companies, including JPL, Adept, Invenios, and his own company, Silma, researching the motion and control of robots and robotic parts
Cross, L. Eric - earned his B.S. (1948) and Ph.D. (1952) in Physics at the Unversity of Leeds, where he began his lifelong research on ferroelectrics. In 1961,he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at Penn State University, where he had been ever since. At Penn State, he helped found the Materials Research Laboratory and mentored over fifty doctoral students. In addition to his breakthroughs and publications in the field of ferroelectricity, Cross has been involved in numerous international research efforts and even consulted on the Hubble Telescope
Cutler, C. Chapin - communications engineer known for his development of and work on the corrugated waveguide, the traveling wave tube, and differential PCM. After receiving a B.S. from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 1937, Cutler was hired at Bell Labs; although he took courses at Stevens Tech and Princeton, he never fulfilled the requirements for a formal postgraduate degree. During World War II he worked on radar and the development of a proximity fuse; after the war he began work on the traveling wave tube and eventually, after his invention of differential PCM, worked on picture-phone and satellite technology

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Dadda, Luigi - IEEE Life Fellow, conducted research in models and analog computers, and in 1953 he received an NSF grant to study at Cal Tech
Daniel, Ron - long time faculty member at Oxford, centered his career on remote control robots, such as those used in nuclear power plants
Dario, Paolo - IEEE Life Fellow, is a leader in the application of robotics to medicine and rehabilitation
Davenport, Lee - Worked on anti-aircraft radar at the MIT Rad Lab, serving as a project manager for the SCR-584 also involved in getting equipment to the field quickly and training troops how to use it
Davis, Martin - Known for his work on Hilbert's Tenth Problem and for his model of Post-Turing machines
de Laet, Edward - worked as a draftsman and technician for Joe Desch at N.C.R. 1940-1945, 1946-1950
de Marca, J. Roberto B. - 2014 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow for "for leadership and contributions to international communications", Associate Academic Vice President for Sponsored Research at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro
Denert, Ernst - co-authored one of the earliest computer programming texts, Data Structures (Datenstrukturen, published 1977). Denert started work as a developer for German software company Softlab in 1976, becoming a project manager there before co-founding his own company, SD&M (Software Design and Management), with Ulfried Maiborn in 1982
Denton, Charles - Worked on many important Westinghouse projects, including UK2 satellite, ECM programs, physical countermeasures pod, ALQ-131 and A-10 CFF – and held managerial positions such as engineering supervisor, program engineering manager, program manager and investment manager for commercial systems
Devaney, Marjorie ("Marge") - Among the first generation of computer programmers, Devaney spent her career at the Los Alamos National Laboratory where she worked on the Mathematical Analyzer, Numerical Integrator, and Computer (MANIAC) Program
Dickmanns, Ernst - spent most of his career at the Universität der Bundeswehr München, where he worked on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, specifically on dynamic computer vision and on autonomous vehicles
Dillmann, Rüdiger - Professor of the Department of Computer Science and is Director of the Research Lab Humanoids and Intelligence Systems at University of Karlsruhe
Doi, Miwako - IEEE Fellow, electrical engineer who received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees from the University of Tokyo. Her research has involved user interfaces, robotics, and document processing. She has held leadership positions at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology and Tohoku University; and been a professor at Osaka University. Much of her early career she worked with increasing responsibilities at Toshiba
Dollimore, Jean - Dollimore began her research career at University College, followed by the Institute of Computing Science, where she taught courses on FORTRAN. She moved to Queen Mary College where she worked on the COSMOS project and specialized in distributed systems, co-authoring the influential book Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
Doolittle, Howard - His most important work at the MIT Rad Lab was on the 584 microwave radar and on developing pulse transformers and pulse networks
Doring, Herbert - communications engineer best known for his work in electron tubes. He received his diploma in electrical engineering from the Technische Hochschule Vienna in 1934, and received his Doctor Techn. in electrical engineering from the same university in 1936. He worked at Siemens in Vienna and then at the AEG Institute, moving to C. Lorenz AG in 1941 as Oscar Heil's successor. He became a professor at Aachen in 1952 and founded the Institute of High Frequency Technique there in 1957
Douglas, Joseph - the first African American professor of engineering at Penn State University. Later he served as associate dean of Penn State’s Commonwealth campuses. Douglas received multiple awards from from Penn State and the Pennsylvania State Board of Higher Education for the excellence of his teaching. Douglas' IEEE service includes work as chapter chairman and as Region 2 Director (1985-1986)
Drabek, Rudolf - During his career at Philips, Rudolf Drabek worked on the influential recording and video technologies of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. This interview details the development of radio and video recording technology, compact cassettes, and Video 2000. From an international perspective, Drabek analyzes the technological and economic influences on the development of video recording and VHS technologies.
Dresselhaus, Mildred - graduated from Hunter College and continued her education at Cambridge University under a Fulbright scholarship. Dresselhaus then returned to the US to finish her postgraduate degree at Radcliffe College and the University of Chicago. Her research on carbon-based materials has been instrumental to the development of solid state electronics
Drozd, Andrew - IEEE Life Fellow, has spent most of his career as head of his own EMC firm, ANDRO Computational Solutions. He is an IEEE Fellow, cited for his the development of knowledge-based codes for modeling and simulation of complex systems for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). He was president of the IEEE EMC Society in 2006-2007
Duff, William G. - conducted research on EMC through contracts with the Air Force. He has published widely on the topic, including six manuscripts. A former president of the EMC Society, he was inducted into the IEEE EMC Hall of Fame in 2010.
Duggan, Robert Jr. - served the members of IEEE for more than sixty years beginning with being an officer in both AIEE and IRE, predecessors to IEEE. Bob held several offices in the Atlanta Section, Region 3 and at the Institute level. He was elected as the Region 3 Director for 1984-85 and as the Vice President of the Regional Activities Board (RAB) for 1987
Durrani, Sajjad - Space communications pioneer, COMSAT, NASA, and an IEEE Life Fellow
Durrani, Tariq - IEEE Life Fellow, Research Professor with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K. He has authored 350 publications and supervised 45 Ph.D. scholars. His research interests include AI, signal processing, and technology management
Dwight, Robert - Manager of administration for Westinghouse’s defense center who was instrumental in starting the National Electronics Museum

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Early, James - worked at Bell’s Murray Hill lab 1951-64, the Allentown Lab (final-development oriented) till 1969, than at Fairchild Cameron. He discovered the Early Effect (figuring out that junction transistors are node circuits, not loop circuits) in 1952. He personally designed the transistors for the Vanguard satellite, but generally did more theoretical work. At Allentown he set the goal of packaging silicon devices properly. At Fairchild Cameron he set up the program to work on the buried channel charge coupled device (CCD)
Eden, Murray - A mathematician and biophysicist who was the Director of the Biomedical Engineering and Instrumentation Program at National Institutes of Health for almost 20 years.
Eisenstein, Bruce A. - 2000 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow, and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, spent his career as a faculty member and chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. As IEEE President, Eisenstein developed a number of structural and process changes that improved the way IEEE was run.
Elden, Walter - advocate for ethics advice and support programs for members since he led the USAB proposals for creating the original IEEE Member Conduct Committee in 1978
Eldon, Charles - 1985 IEEE President, Eldon spent his career in production and manufacturing engineering at HP. As IEEE President, he reestablished a working relationship with the Popov Society, the electrical engineering society of the USSR
Engel, Gerald - held teaching and research positions at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Old Dominion University, and Christopher Newport University. In 1984 he came to the University of Connecticut at Stamford, and became the first holder of the Leonhardt Chair of Computer Science and Engineering and served as the interim Director of the Waterbury Campus of the University. From 1991 to 1995, he was on loan from the University to the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate (CISE) of the National Science Foundation, where he served as a program director (1991-1993) and acting deputy director for Computer and Computation Research (1994-1995)
Engel, Joel - His career was largely at Bell Labs from 1959 to 1983. His first major work was on mobile telephone systems engineering; in 1969-72, with Phil Porter and Dick Frenkiel he came up with the basic plan for cellular, mobile radio/telephone communications, Advanced Mobile Phone System, presented by AT&T and accepted by the FCC a decade later—though not actually put into national use until the 1980s. He spent two years working on regulatory policy in AT&T’s corporate planning department, then returned to Bell Labs, 1975-83. There he did research on videotext services and energy management systems. From 1983 to 1987 he was VP of engineering, and then of R&D, for Satellite Business Systems (SBS), working on high-speed data and voice communications via satellite. He then moved to Ameritech, one of the Baby Bell companies, where he set up their new laboratories. While there, Ameritech did much development of digital, fiber optic, e-mail, and voice messaging technologies
Engelson, Irving - took a position with RCA, most notably as a teacher at the RCA Institute. After he completed his education he taught briefly in colleges in New Jersey, before taking up a position as an engineering Dean at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He later transitioned from academia to several administrative positions at the IEEE including Director for Technical Activities and Managing Director for Corporate Activities
Espenschied, Lloyd - worked for AT&T designing loading coils and invented a new kind of loading coil. By 1915, he was involved in high-frequency wire transmission and wireless telephony. Early experiments and demonstrations found Espenschied climbing 160 foot frozen antennas in the ice-glazed hills of Montauk Point, stringing antenna between a water tank and a smokestack in the Hawaiian wildnerness, and building experimental coastal stations on the Jersey shore for short-wave trans-Atlantic telephony. Espenschied's work in the development of commercial equipment for long lines eventually led to the development of coaxial cable. A charter member of both the Wireless Institute and IRE, Espenschied received over 130 patents during his career and was awarded, among other honors the Television Broadcasters Association medal and the IRE Medal of Honor
Estrin, Thelma (1992) - After working in electroencephalography at the Neurological Institute of New York, Estrin worked in Israel on WEIZAC, the region’s first electronic computer. She then joined UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, serving as director of the Data Processing Laboratory. She has held various leadership positions within IEEE and was honored as a Life Fellow in 1977
Estrin, Thelma (2002)
Eu, Hong - Eu's employment at Signetics began in process engineering. Eu describes the Signetics company's production model, with wafers produced in the U.S. and assembled in Korea. When Signetics eliminated Korea's role in this process, Eu moved to Oltron Corporation, manufacturer of digital wristwatches, LCD watches, CB radios, and video games
Everitt, Bruce W. - became an analyst, working in the semiconductor industry. Everitt moved out to Boston in 1964 to form a company specializing in technology investments named G.S. Grumman and Associates, which later merged as Institutional Division of Cowen and Company
Ewanus, Walter - A career-long Westinghouse employee, he worked on many projects including Bomarc, satellite communications, B1B, F-117 and transcontinental communications

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Faggin, Federico - Developed the Silicon Gate Technology, which made possible the fabrication of semiconductor memories and the microprocessor. He also led the 4004 project at Intel
Fegely, Wayne - Served in many Westinghouse departments, including the Air Arm Division, Radar Development Section, and Advanced Development Engineering, and worked on many projects, including radar, stealth and EAR
Feinler, Elizabeth "Jake" - Feinler is an Internet and computer information scientist whose work earned her a place in the Internet Hall of Fame. She spent the bulk of her career at the Stanford Research Institute, where she directed the Network Information Systems Center. She then joined the Ames Research Center at NASA
Feisel, Lyle - IEEE Life Fellow, became the founding dean of the Watson School of Engineering at SUNY Binghamton in 1983. He has been an active member of IEEE's Educational Activities Board, the IEEE Education Society, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), ABET as well as the IEEE Foundation.
Ferrate, Gabriel - began to develop electronic traffic control systems in the late 1950s, and his company sold them to the municipality of Barcelona and many other European and South American cities over the next two decades, before it went out of business in the late 1970s. He split his business work with teaching and researching in automatic control, eventually becoming in 1975 a full professor at Barcelona in the chair of Automatic Control. In 1979 he became director of the school of engineers; in 1982 he became the first director of the Polytechnic University, when the engineering school integrated into it
Fettweis, Alfred - in 1951, Fettweis joined the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT), where he was involved in carrier telephony and line transmission work. Fettweis used insertion loss method five years before its perfection at Bell Labs and argues that Germany pioneered insertion loss technique because of a lack of quartz crystals. In 1956 he discovered the sensitivity property, later published by Orchard. Fettweis was quick to use new technologies to create filter designs. He developed the wave digital filter in 1969, while teaching at Bochum University in Germany
Findlay, Ray - 2002 IEEE President and an IEEE Life Fellow, who spent his career on the faculties of first the University of New Brunswick, and then McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, was the third IEEE President from Canada. Findlay spent much of his presidency implementing improvements to IEEE’s financial systems, and coping with post-9/11 conflicts between IEEE’s U.S. incorporation and its global presence
Finn, Bernard - became Curator of Electricity at the Smithsonian in August 1962, a position he held until 2005 when he became Curator Emeritus. He also served as managing editor of ISIS, the journal of the History of Science Society. Finn became formally involved with the IEEE History Committee in a consultant capacity in 1971, later becoming an official committee member. and serving as Committee Chairman from 1980-82
Fischer, Joseph - worked as an engineer for various companies before founding his own, Fischer Custom Communications. He is a former president of the EMC Society
Flanagan, James L. - His research has primarily been in voice communications, computer techniques and electroacoustic systems. He was a long-time employee at Bell Labs and served as VP for Research at Rutgers University
Flaschen, Steward - worked at Bell Labs, developing a hydrothermal synthesis of barium titanate, as well as working on low-melting glasses for semiconductor insulation. At Motorola, he developed at method of silicon passivation important for the plastic packaging of semiconductors. He oversaw research at ITT, pushing for innovations in such diverse fields as fiber optics and anti-skid braking in automobiles. When he retired in 1986, he became chairman of TranSwitch and was on the board of venture capital companies. In the interview, he also reflects on the importance of corporate leadership in producing new technologies and on the demise of central laboratories charged with conducting general research
Floriani, Virgilio - founded Telettra in Milan, one of the principal Italian companies producing telecommunications equipment. In 1977, together with Vittorio Ventafridda, he founded the Floriani Foundation to assist terminally ill patients and fund research for better palliative care. In the interview, he reviews the history and principles of Telettra, influenced heavily by Hewlett-Packard, and its ventures into transistors, digital communications, switching, and telecommunications over power lines
Flükiger, René - Worked mainly at the University of Geneva and at Karlsruhe, studied the metallurgy and structure of a variety of superconductivity, and then applied that knowledge to the production of superconducting wires and tapes
Flurscheim, Charles - A graduate of Cambridge University and a college apprentice at the Metropolitan Vickers company, Flurscheim became an accomplished specialist in electronic switchgear and circuit breaker operations. During the second world war, Flurscheim designed vital electrical systems which increased British military aircraft safety. Subsequently he contributed to electrical and nuclear power station research. His high-voltage circuit breakers are used in power stations throughout the world.
Fong, Art - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab test equipment group on a high-speed oscilloscope, signal generators, thermistor mounts, attenuators, and spectrum analyzers
Fong, Terry - spent time at MIT, Carnegie Mellon, and NASA Ames, and Fourth Planet, Inc. as director of the robotics group, and made contributions to virtual reality interfaces and Human-Robot Interaction research
Forlizzi, Jodi - worked in human-robot interaction at UPenn and CMU
Forney, G. David - Marconi Fellow and an IEEE Life Fellow. His research focused on coding theory and information theory. Specific projects include work on error-correcting codes in deep space missions and on modem development
Foster, Ted - Had many Westinghouse positions and worked on many projects, including thick film technology, surveillance radar systems, and Very High Speed Integrated Circuits
Freed, Roy - served in the Army Ordnance Corps and in the Petroleum Administration during World War II, and worked with the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division until 1951, when he went to work in a private law firm. Then Freed began studying new computer technology and recognizing how computers would influence the legal profession. He helped develop the field which became known as computer law. This involved addressing problems such as computer performance, software copyright, taxation on computer technology, and trade secrecy law. Freed worked for the Computer Control Corporation from 1964 to 1970 and for various other law firms, concentrating upon legal matters involving computer communications and other high technologies, and representing suppliers and users of those technologies
Freeman, Herbert - published numerous works on geometric patterns from ’61 and was a co-founder with Azriel Rosenfeld of the University of Maryland of the Journal of Computer Graphics and Image Processing in ’70. Later it changed its name to Computer Graphics, Vision, and Image Processing Journal, and with the expansion of the industry, the journal was split into two in the 1990s
Freyhardt, Herbert - head of the “Crystal Growth Laboratory” as well as the “Superconductivity Section” of the Institute of Metallphysik
Fridkin, Vladimir - In 1955, A.V. Shubnikov and A.S. Zheludev invited Fridkin to study as a postgraduate student at the Institute of Crystallography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. His entire life, since September 1955, has been connected with the Institute of Crystallography. In 1958 Fridkin defended his Candidate dissertation on electrophotography, and in 1964 he defended his Doctoral dissertation on the physics of photoelectrets; both studies were done at the Institute of Crystallography. Fridkin has published more than 300 papers and directed 70 Candidate of Science students and five Doctoral students
Friedel, Robert - became the first archivist at the Smithsonian’s Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) and curated exhibits on themes like maritime history and Edison’s electric light. Friedel then taught briefly at what is now Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York before joining the IEEE as the first director of the IEEE History Center in August 1980. While director of what was then the Center for History of Electrical Engineering, Friedel was a part of major exhibits such as the Faraday/Maxwell traveling exhibit which started at Electro 1981, and A Century of Electricals which was part of the IEEE Centennial celebrations. He also started the center's newsletter and the IEEE Milestones program, and supervised the initial organization of the IEEE Archives
Fruehauf, Hugo - Field Operations Test Engineer at Martin-Marietta, part of a team launching TM-76B Cruise Missiles at Cape Canaveral. Then, while at General Dynamics Astronautics, he was part of Atlas-Agena launches and Titan-I ICBM testing at Vandenberg Air Force Base. He joined Rockwell International (formally North American Rockwell) in 1965 at Mississippi Test Facility as a test/electronic engineer. He became Chief Test conductor for Rockwell’s second stage (the S-II) for the Saturn-V Apollo launch vehicle. After the Apollo program, while at Rockwell’s California division, Fruehauf was Chief Engineer for the design and development of the GPS Satellite from 1973 to 1978. As part of the satellite, he was also the team leader and major developer of the fully radiation hardened 20-yr life space-born Rubidium Vapor Atomic Clock
Fujimura, Tetsuo - Worked as the director of NGK Company in Japan, where the promotion of engineers to management enforces their belief that quality is paramount
Fujita, Den - developed a successful export business during the postwar period and became the president of McDonald’s (Japan) in 1971. In this interview, Fujita discusses his early interest in electronics and his work with General Electric and other American companies as an exporter. Fujita moves on to discuss the development of his own company in which he exported Japanese radios to the United States, among other products. He also reflects on past perceptions of Japanese quality and early American knowledge of electronics
Fukada, Eiichi - research member at the Kobayasi Institute of Physical Research (KIPR), Tokyo from 1944 to 1963; British Council Scholar at the Department of Physics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London from 1956 to 1958; Chief Research Member of the Biopolymer Physics Laboratory, the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Tokyo from 1963 to 1980; Executive Director of RIKEN from 1980 to 1984; Research Advisor at the Institute for Super Materials, ULVAC, Tsukuba from 1987 to 1998; and a member of the Board of Directors at KIPR from 1992 to 2002
Fukuda, Toshio - 2020 IEEE President, an IEEE Life Fellow, an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, and a medical robotics pioneer
Fuller, Leonard - graduated from Cornell University around 1912. Upon graduation, he was employed by the National Electric Signaling Company. He then took a position with the Federal Telegraph Company, where he eventually was named Chief Electrical Engineer. During the 1920s, he worked for General Electric Co. on carrier-current communications, subsequently returning to Federal as Executive Vice President and Chief Engineer. In 1930, he joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty as Chair of the Electrical Engineering department
Fung, Bert - Influential in both Aeronautical Engineering and Biomechanics, he is the recipient of the President's National Medal of Science .
Furui, Sadaoki - IEEE Life Fellow, authored and co-authored more than 1,000 papers and books mostly in the fields of speech recognition, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing

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Galil, Uzia - founder of Elron Electronic Industries Ltd., the first high technology multinational holding company based in Israel and operating worldwide. Elron developed about 25 high-tech companies in Medical Imaging, Defense Electronics, Communications, Machine Vision and Semiconductors. Uzia Galil has served as Chief Executive Officer of Elron for 38 years (1962-1999) and chairman or director of most companies founded by Elron
Gallager, Robert - Marconi Fellow and an IEEE Life Fellow, has focused on information theory and data networks, working in fields such as coding, multi-access communication systems, distributed algorithms, routing, congestion control, and random access techniques. He helped found the Codex Corporation
Galvin, Robert - chief executive office of Motorola for thirty years. Although he was not trained as an engineer, Galvin successfully managed the company for a number of decades with his ability to think differently from engineers and to push them further
Ganzhorn, Karl - a physicist who has specialized primarily in computers and communication technology. He studied physics at the University of Stuttgart, working with Prof. Ulrich Deilinger. He worked for IBM from the mid-1950s to 1986, as scientist, development manager, and director of the IBM laboratory at Sindelfingen until 1963, as head of the German, Austrian, and Swedish labs from 1963 to 1973, as Director for Science and Technology in IBM Europe from 1973 to 975, as Vice-President of telecommunication systems from 1975 to 1978, and as head of IBM Germany’s technical and scientific operations from 1978 to 1986. He also served on the German Science Board, the Federal Bureau of Standards, and other advisory panels
Garcia, Oscar - the founding dean of the College of Engineering at University of North Texas and professor of electrical engineering,
Gascoigne, Anthony - Founding member of the IEEE Victorian Section, has more than fifty years professional experience in the design, development, evaluation and proving of electrical and electronics equipment for a range of defense, automotive and Industrial applications
Gass, Wanda - IEEE Fellow "for contributions to digital signal processors and circuits," made crucial achievements in digital signal processing chip development through her work at Texas Instruments. Before joining TI, Gass studied electrical engineering at Rice University and earned a master's degree in biomedical engineering at Duke University (1980)
Gaynor, Gus - long time IEEE member, actively involved with various IEEE committees and boards for over 75 years. Prior to retirement from corporate America, Gas was 3M’s Innovation Director who led major engineering product breakthroughs. Gus served as Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Today’s Engineer, President of the Engineering Management Society, and VP of Education, IEEE Technology and Engineering Management
Gazzana-Priaroggia, Paolo - In 1945 he joined R&D Department of Pirelli Cables in Milan, initially in the telecommunication field and then in the power field. In 1950 he became manager of the Power Cables Laboratory. In 1958 he was appointed manager of the R&D Department of Pirelli Cables-Italy, and in 1966 Chief Engineer of the Cable Division-Italy. In 1972 he was given the responsibility of the whole Pirelli Cable International Sector as Chief Engineer and R&D Director. Retired in 1982, he served Pirelli SpA as Consulting Engineer until 1987.
Geddes, Leslie - Electrical engineer and physiologist who was involved in the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and was a 2006 National Medal of Technology recipient
Gedney, Ron - In addition to his significant contributions in the field of computer packaging and manufacturing, Ron Gedney served in a variety of positions as a distinguished member of IEEE CPMT Society. As an employee of IBM, Gedney was involved in the procurement of components, the development of reliability standard tests, the production of chip and circuit technology, and the management of a thin film substrate program. He served as program chairman of ECTC and on the board of governors of CPMT. He subsequently ran and served as vice president and president of the CPMT. During his tenure, he helped to develop an efficient organizational structure and a successful packaging technical committee, as well as expand the CPMT awards plan and help restore CPMT’s financial security
Gerdes, Virginia - Worked as a bench technician, did calculations and worked on the MIT Rad Lab books
Geselowitz, David - Geselowitz became the senior person under Herman Schwan, through which he got involved with the IRE, a predecessor to the IEEE, which he believes was a key organization in advancing biomedical engineering, along with other groups such as the ASME . He and Okada, as well as others, continued the work of four major labs that made the core of what he refers to as "the first generation" of biomedical engineering. This work eventually led to achieving results from the cellular activity in the heart.
Getting, Ivan A. (1991) - 1978 IEEE President, Getting spent part of his career at MIT, and part in industry, both with Raytheon and as president of the Aerospace Corporation. As IEEE President, he reached out to industry leaders so that they would understand the role and importance of IEEE as a professional society
Getting, Ivan A. (1995)
Gibbons, James - studied engineering at Northwestern, graduating in 1953. He got his PhD at Stanford, and became a professor there soon thereafter. After a brief period working with William Shockley, at Stanford’s direction, he set up a solid-state electronics lab at Stanford. The work at this lab spawned the graphics chip for SGI and the MIPS chip for risk processors. After setting up the lab, Gibbons moved over to work on the physics of fabrication—wafer fab technology, with epitaxy and ion implantation.
Gilbert, Juan - Juan Gilbert is the Banks Family Preeminence Endowed Professor and Department Chair in Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida. Dr. Gilbert’s main research area in human-computer interaction. He holds a PhD from the University of Cincinnati and has formerly taught at Auburn and Clemson Universities.
Gillette, Dorothy - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab experimental system group doing signal threshold studies
Gilliland, Clinton - graduated with a BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1959, and from 1960 to 1964 was mainly operating field sites of HF radio receiving equipment collecting data from distant transmitters. His largest project at the Stanford RSL was design and building the antenna beam control for the 2.5 km long array of whip antennas built in the California central valley. In 1968, he went to Barry Research, and was involved with circuit design for the Chirp sounder production designs. In 1968 and 1969 he spent several multi-month stays in Routhwesten, Germany, Aviano, Italy, and San Vito, Italy operating BR Chirpsounder receiving equipment at US military sites
Gini, Maria - Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Before joining the University of Minnesota she was a research associate at the Politecnico of Milan, Italy, and a visiting research associate in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Stanford University
Ginzton, Edward - Worked on the development of klystron and linear accelerators and was a Director of the Microwave Lab
Giordmaine, Joseph - retired as vice president of physical science research at the NEC laboratory in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in 1955 and did his Ph.D. work at Columbia University on the use of the maser amplifier in planetary astronomy, working with Charles Townes. After leaving Columbia, Giordmaine went to work at Bell Labs in 1961, working with ruby lasers and harmonic generation, eventually moving into nonlinear optics. In 1965 Giordmaine and Bob Millar worked together to develop an optical parametric oscillator. In the 1970s Giordmaine was promoted to laboratory director, and from the 1970s through the early 1980s held a variety of management position at Bell Labs in the research area and, eventually, in the company's development area. In the late 1980s Giordmaine left Bell Labs to help set up a Western-style basic research laboratory for the Japanese company NEC, where as vice president of physical science research Giordmaine also sits on the Board of Fellows
Glazer, Mike - In 1976, he was appointed Lecturer in Physics at the Clarendon Laboratory Oxford and as an Official Fellow and Tutor at Jesus College Oxford. Mike Glazer's research has mainly been in understanding the relationship between physical properties of crystals and their structures. He is perhaps best known for his classification system for tilted octahedra in perovskites. He is also one of the co-founders of Oxford Cryosystems Ltd, which supplies the world market in low-temperature apparatus for crystallographers
Godsey, Frank W. - In 1934 he moved to Sprague Electric, where he worked for six years, holding the positions of assistant production manager and chief electrical engineer. In 1940 he joined Westinghouse in their new products division located in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Near the end of WWII, Godsey was instrumental in the establishment of Westinghouse's military division, based in Baltimore. He continued with Westinghouse as manager of the Baltimore Divisions until 1951, when he left to head Electronic Communications Incorporated, a company that developed military communications equipment. In 1959, he purchased ECI's research division, which became Advanced Technology Corporation. ATI's primary work was in millimeter-wave devices and solid-state technology
Goetzberger, Adolf - an applied physicist who has specialized primarily in semiconductors and solar energy. He studied physics at the University of Munich, working with Prof. Gerlach. He worked for Siemens from 1955 to 1958, at the Shockley Laboratory from 1958 to 1963, and at Bell Labs from 1968 to 1973. He was director of The Institute for Electrical Materials (The Institute for Applied Solid State Physics) from 1973 to 1980, and director of Institute for Solar Energy Systems from 1980 to 1994
Gold, Ben - joined the staff at Lincoln Labs in 1953 working there through 1981 on the Application of probability theory to communications. He also designed and implemented a device to recognize hand-sent Morse code signals and a device to measure the pitch of speech for use in voice-coding systems. He contributed to the theory and application of voice coding systems for digital data rate reduction, the development of the theory of digital signal processing, and the design and development of high speed signal processing computers and parallel computers
Goldberg, Adele - Goldberg began her career as a researcher at Xerox, where she developed the programming language Smalltalk and managed the System Concepts Laboratory. She continued to develop Smalltalk technology as the head of ParcPlace Systems. She served as president of the Association for Computing Machinery and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from PC Magazine in 1990
Goldberg, Ken - IEEE Fellow, has spent most of his career at Berkeley. Much of his work has centered on the intersection of robotics, art, and social networks. He has also worked extensively on automation, and is the founding editor of the IEEE Transactions of Automation Science and Engineering
Goldsmith, Alfred N. - founding member of the IRE, first editor of the Proceedings of the IRE, and a member of the IRE Board of Directors for its entire existence. In 1919, he joined RCA, where he held a variety of positions, including vice-president of RCA Photophone, and vice president in general engineering. Goldsmith received over one hundred patents in the field of electronics and was director emeritus of the IEEE
Goldsmith, Andrea - Dean of Engineering and Applied Science and the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University
Goldsmith, Thomas - attended Furman University in South Carolina, graduating in 1931. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University in 1936, where he was involved in research on cathode ray devices. It was as a graduate student that Goldsmith first had contact with the Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories. Upon receiving his doctorate, Goldsmith went to work for Du Mont as a director of research, a position he held until he left the company in 1966. Goldsmith then returned to Furman University as a physics professor and director of the audio-visual department
Golub, Gene - Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was one of the preeminent numerical analysts of his generation. Born in Chicago in 1932, he was educated at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He had been at Stanford since 1962 and became a professor there in 1970. He had advised almost thirty doctoral students, many of whom have themselves achieved distinction. Gene Golub was an important figure in numerical analysis and pivotal to creating the NA-Net and the NA-Digest, as well as the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Gordon, Eugene - worked for Bell Laboratories, where his first research involved inventing a microwave tube called a cyclotron wave amplifier, for use in submarine cables. He switched over to the new field of lasers, developing gas lasers. He was early concerned with the lifetime and reliability of lasers, and did the practical work of making single frequency oscillators, frequency stabilizers, etc, which turned laser technology into a practical communication system. He co-developed the first CW argon ion laser—which eventually had medical applications, such as saving from blindness people with diabetic retinopathy. He then helped develop the display and imaging devices for AT&T’s picturephone system (through 1970). In the 1970s he worked to develop solid-state versions of these devices—co-inventing CCD, the basis for color cameras, fax machines, etc
Gorman, Judith - Managing Director of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) from 1998 to 2012, first joined the staff of the IEEE in 1984. Her educational background in the liberal arts prepared her for an early career in the publishing industry, migrating from the magazine industry, to educational publishing, and finally to the technical environment of the IEEE. She began her IEEE career directing Standards publishing and marketing. In 1991, she became Associate Staff Director of Standards, and in 1995, Staff Director
Grabbe, Dimitry - IEEE Life Fellow, played an integral part in advancing U.S. space exploration. His pioneering work has produced nearly 500 U.S. and foreign patents covering machine design, semiconductor packaging, electronics assembly and optoelectronic connector design. His work in printed circuit board technology for electronic packaging led to the development of large, multi-layer printed circuit boards. This proved crucial in helping U.S. astronauts gain greater real-time control of their space-exploration activities. In 1964, Mr. Grabbe founded the Maine Research Corporation which specialized in high-end printed circuit boards; the company was dissolved in 1972. He joined AMP, Inc. in 1973, and helped it become a world leader in electrical/electronic connector technology, test socket technology and miniature semiconductor packages. Mr. Grabbe assisted Dr. Pryputniewicz, professor of mechanical engineering and founding director of the center for holographic studies and laser micro-mechaTronics (CHSLT) at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Mass. with research on gyroscopes and accelorometers
Graham, Martin - Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. Beginning his work with the Brookhaven and Los Alamos Laboratories, Graham later moved to Rice University, before settling down at Berkeley
Graham, Susan - IEEE Life Fellow and an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, has devoted her research as a software engineer to computer programming language implementation, developing the Titanium system and Harmonia framework. She was the first woman professor of engineering at UC Berkeley. In 2009, she received the von Neumann Medal from IEEE
Granger, John - 1970 IEEE President, Granger was an engineering entrepreneur who founded the successful company Granger Associates. As IEEE President, he pursued IEEE’s relationships with national engineering societies, and wrestled with the question of IEEE sponsoring meetings of classified research
Gray, Robert M. (1991) - Electrical Engineer, and an IEEE Life Fellow, who made significant contributions in speech processing, developed one of the first examples of a universal code and popularized the algorithm for vector quantifier design
Gray, Robert M. (1998)
Greatbatch, Wilson - Electrical engineer who advanced pacemaker battery technology and created his own company, Greatbatch, Inc., to develop and sell pacemaker batteries
Green, Michael - licensed mechanical engineer in the State of California and is a founding board member of the IEEE Council on Applied Superconductivity. He has worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Kernforschungszentrum Karlsrue, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, and Oxford University
Green, Paul - worked at Lincoln Lab 1951-69, IBM 1969-97, and Tellabs, Inc. since. At Lincoln he helped develop RAKE, the first operational spread spectrum system still the basis for spread spectrum cellular telephones. Via some false starts, he figured out a way to do radar mapping in astronomy. In seismology, his idea of a Large Aperture Seismic Array proved less effective than theory had predicted. At IBM he worked on speech recognition, peer (decentralized) networking, an the all-optical IBM 9729 network, using fiber optic technology (1987-96). Since then at Tellabs he has been continuing optical network research, particularly on the optical cross-connect, an optical switch. He has had significant involvement in the IEEE Information Theory Society and the IEEE Communications Society throughout his career, particularly in the latter
Gregory, John - Worked in many Westinghouse groups, including the Digital Systems Group, Control Data Systems and Computing and Data Systems. He also worked on many projects, including AWAC, AN/AYK-8, millicomputers and BORAM
Gretsch, William - Worked in several Westinghouse management positions and on projects such as AWACS, Apollo lunar TV and airships
Grier, David Alan - spent much of the past decade helping the IEEE Computer Society develop new electronic products, editing its periodicals, and writing for its members. He has served as editor in chief of IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, as chair of the Magazine Operations Committee, and as an editorial board member of Computer
Gries, David - Worked to advance the teaching of computer science and is known for his research in compiling and in programming methodology
Grudin, Jonathan - For many years, he has participated actively in the human-computer interaction and computer supported cooperative work communities. He has worked as a software engineer at Wang Laboratories, a team leader at MCC, a professor of information and computer science at University of California Irvine, and as a researcher at Microsoft
Guarrera, John - 1974 IEEE President, Guarrera had a varied career, beginning at the MIT Rad Lab, going from there into industry, and finally into academic administration at California State—Northridge. As an IEEE President, he was instrumental in setting up the USAC, the predecessor of IEEE-USA, and he championed the professional needs of engineers
Gueldenpfennig, Klaus - began working for DeTeWe (Deutsche Telephonwerke) in 1954, later taking employment with Telefunken. Gueldenpfennig came to the United States in 1965, working in New York City for two years for DeTeWe and Telefunken. He then spent eleven years working on switching system development for Stromberg, a career which brought him to Rochester, New York, and which produced multiple circuit and switching patents. Gueldenpfennig received an M.S. in electrical engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1974 and received an M.B.A., again at RIT, in 1977. When Stromberg relocated to Florida in 1978, Gueldenpfennig stayed in New York and launched his company Redcom
Gulden, Vince - In 1941, Joe Desch recruited Gulden to the National Cash Register Company. At NCR, Gulden worked with radios, vacuum tubes, and counting circuits. Gulden also recounts his role in the World War II effort at NCR, including work on the Bombe project and Rattler code-breaking. After the war, Gulden worked on transistors and various accounting machines, staying at NCR until 1973
Gulyaev, Yury - IEEE Life Fellow, President of IEEE Russian Section from 1988-2016, worked at the Institute of Radio-engineering and Electronics (IRE) Ac. Sci. USSR (later RAS) as a Researcher, Senior Researcher and Head of the Department. He served as Deputy Director since 1972, Director of IRE RAS since 1988, and Scientific Supervisor of IRE RAS since 2004. Gulyaev is the author of more than 500 scientific papers and 11 monographs, and has more than 60 patents

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Haddad, Abraham, H. - After graduating, Haddad began teaching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Most of his career has been in academia. Haddad has also taught at Georgia Tech and Northwestern University, and worked at Dynamics Research Corporation and the National Science Foundation. He has been active in the IEEE’s Control Systems Society – holding positions such as editor of The Transactions on Automatic Control, secretary, chairman of the publications committee and Control Systems Society President in 1992. He also served as secretary for the American Automatic Control Council (A2C2) from 1990 to 2003
Hagita, Norihiro - Educated at Keio University, Hagita has split his career between NTT (Nippon Telephone) and ATR (The Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute). Much of his work has focused on agent systems and pattern recognition
Haibt, Lois - Part of the first generation of computer programmers, Haibt was the only woman on the FORTRAN team at IBM
Hall, Robert N. - Physicist most known for his work at GE on the semiconductor laser
Hamilton, Clark A. - IEEE Life Fellow, spent most of his career at NIST in Boulder, Colorado. His many awards include the IEEE Council on Superconductivity Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012, and two U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medals for his work on superconducting integrated circuits using Josephson devices, 1984 and 1989
Han, Ki Sun - From 1957 through 1963, Mr. Han worked as an engineer at the HLKZ-TV station, American Forces Korean National Television (AFKN), and the Korean Broadcasting Systems (KBS). In 1963 he joined the Tonyung Broadcasting Company (TBC), a broadcasting company jointly established by Samsung, Gold Star, and other companies. In 1969, Mr. Han moved to a position at Samsung Electronics, and he became the company's CEO in 1973. At the time of this 1996 interview, Ki Sun Han served as a senior advisor on Japanese business to Samsung's CEO
Hang, Daniel - Hang spent a few years at General Electric in Schenectady, New York working on war projects, such as SONAR. He later attended the University of Illinois where he earned a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering in 1941 and 1949, respectively, and began teaching at the university, where he remained until his retirement in 1984. While on the Electrical Engineering faculty, Hang helped develop the nuclear engineering department at the university, especially the master’s degree program, and later held a joint appointment in the Electrical and Nuclear Engineering departments
Harder, Edwin - power engineer, inventor, builder of the Anacom computer, and former president of the American Federation of Information Processing Societies. Harder addressed many challenging and interesting problems of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s — especially in the regulation and control of power systems. Some of these problems involved the need for additional control as power grids were interconnected and increased in scale; others concerned the regulation of new power machinery (generators and motors) and systems incorporating them (steel mills, paper mills, and so on). His most important contribution was to the Anacom computer
Harder, Keld - After receiving his degree in electrical engineering, his work at Bang & Olufsen focused first on the engineering of products including the Beolit 500 and Beomaster 900 radios. His later work at B&O focused on marketing radio and television. His background as an engineer benefited him both as a salesman and lobbyist, providing technical credibility and enabling him to identify technological trends
Hardy, Ann - worked as a programmer in the early field of shared, network-based computing out of which the Internet would eventually develop. She got her start at IBM, later moving to Tymshare where she became the first woman vice-president before founding her own companies, KeyLogic and Agorics
Harper, Charles - Chemical engineer who was involved in many Westinghouse projects, including Aero 13 and VHSIC, as well as in the progress of electronic packaging and plastic. He has also written and taught extensively and been involved in professional groups
Harris, Buddy - became a full-time telephone company employee. During World War II, he worked on developing airborne radar systems in the Navy. After the war, he managed the plastics division of a Virginia company. In June 1949, he moved to Dallas to join Geophysical Service Inc., the Dallas company that would become Texas Instruments. During the war, he had met Patrick Haggerty and Eugene McDermott, Geophysical Service employees who became key TI executives. By 1951, Mr. Harris was Texas Instruments' vice president of marketing. He joined the company's board of directors in 1963 and served in that post until his retirement in 1998
Harris, Richard - spent much of his career at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) where he researched superconductive technologies and introduced NIST to lithography and superconducting integrated circuits. He was also the Group Leader for the Cryoelectronic Metrology Group on superconducting electronics as well the Quantum Devices Group
Hartmanis, Juris - Made significant contributions in the field of computational complexity theory and was one of founders and the first chairman of the Cornell computer science department
Hassenzahl‎‎, William V. - was with the Lawrence Berkeley National and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories from 1980 to 1993 and with the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1967 to 1980. He was President of Advanced Energy Analysis, Piedmont, CA, a consulting firm specializing in the areas of electric power and applied physics. His publications include over 200 technical papers and two books on energy storage. He has participated in the development of several superconducting magnets and other superconducting systems, and he is active in the research on medical systems using superconductivity. Hassenzahl is a Member of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity, where he represents the IEEE Power Engineering Society
Hatfield, Dale - Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree by the University of Colorado for, inter alia, his commitment to the development of interdisciplinary telecommunications studies. Hatfield has nearly fifty years of experience in telecommunications policy and regulation, spectrum management and related areas.
Hawthorn, Paula - managed software development at Hewlett-Packard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a number of influential start-ups. She helped open the field of computing to women, founding support groups at universities and corporations
Hayashi, Izuo - Played a key role in the development of the laser, and worked on achieving continuous-wave operation of the aluminum gallium arsenide laser at different temperatures
Hayhurst, Floyd - purchasing agent and assistant to Ed Tudor at Regency while the TR1 radio was being developed. He began at Regency when it was still a small operation and stayed until 1958
Hays, Gwen - Worked on computer-aided design, helping design computer languages such as Ada, and was also involved in radar development and was program manager of projects such as High Energy Laser Radar and Acquisition Tracking System (HELRATS)
Hazle, Marlene - started her career in distributed computer systems at the RAND Corporation working on the SAGE system. After moving to MITRE, she developed software for the first automated air traffic controller system and tactical warfare systems for the Air Force
Heath, Fred - Did collaborative work at the MIT Rad Lab with RAD transferring British radar technology to Canadian research and production
Heirman, Don - IEEE Life Fellow, spent most of his career at Bell Labs, and since has retirement from the Labs, has built a thriving EMC consulting business. Much of his work has been on EMC Standards. He served as EMC Society President in 1980-1981
Hellman, Martin - IEEE Life Fellow, an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, and a researcher in cryptography. His work has been applied to public key encryption systems
Hersom, Bobby - developed software for Elliot Brothers, Rothamstead, and Hatfield Polytechnic
Hewlett, William - Co-founder and President of Hewlett-Packard and 1954 IRE president
Hickman, Clarence Nichols - early associate and long-time friend of rocket inventor Frank Goddard. Hickman met Goddard while attending graduate school at Clark University and they worked together during WWI at Mt. Lowell Observatory, and later at Clark's Industrial Research Laboratory during the early 1920s. Hickman also held positions at the National Bureau of Standards and the American Piano Company. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1930, retiring in 1950. During WWII, Hickman headed Section H of the NDRC. He made important contributions in the design of bazookas during the war and magnetic recording after the war
Hillier, James - Developed the first scanning electron microscope in the United States and served as the director of research at RCA
Hirose, Shigeo - attended graduate school and spent his career at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where his research has focused on snake and spider robots
Hirzinger, Gerd - spent his career at DLR, the German national aeronautics and space research center, where he has played a leading role in the development of robots for use in space
Hoagland, Albert - IEEE Fellow, While a graduate student, he became a consultant to IBM with key magnetic head design and recording responsibilities for the Random Access Method of Accounting and Control (RAMAC) disk drive, the first hard disk data storage device. Later he joined IBM, making major contributions to magnetic disk storage technology and the design of magnetic disk drives, including the first studies on track following servo positioning. With IBM for many years, including serving as Director for Technical Planning for the IBM Research Division, he played a principal role in the formation and leadership of an Industry/University consortium that established the first University Centers to support data storage technology. He left IBM in 1984 to found and be Director of the Institute for Information Storage Technology (IIST) at Santa Clara University and a professor of Electrical Engineering. He later established and also ran the Magnetic Disk Heritage Center (MDHC) at Santa Clara University in 2001, whose mission is to preserve the story and historical legacy of the beginnings of magnetic disk storage at 99 Notre Dame, San Jose, California
Hoff, Wallace - Worked in various Westinghouse groups, including the Advanced Technology Lab, Advanced Radar Development, Surveillance Radar Division and the Air Force Avionics Division. Projects he worked on include solid-state design, dead reckoning backpack system, radar projects, VHSIC, F-22/F-23, F-35, AWACS and SBIRS
Hofmann, H. Robert - spent his career at Bell Labs, serving as head of their EMC committee. In addition to his leadership in setting EMC standards and regulations, he served as president of IEEE’s EMC Society
Hollerbach, John - IEEE Life Fellow, discusses his career in robotics, focusing on computer vision and artificial intelligence with a biological angle. Outlining his involvement with the artificial intelligence lab and the instigation of the Year of the Robot, he comments on the evolution and community acceptance of robotics as a serious scientific discipline
Hollis, Ralph - IEEE Life Fellow, spent the first part of his career in robotics research at IBM, and then moved to Carnegie Mellon University. His research has centered on haptics, agile precision assembly, and dynamically-stable mobile robots
Holonyak, Nick - professor of engineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1950 and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, both from the University of Illinois. He was one of the first graduate students to work in John Bardeen's semiconductor laboratory when it began work in 1952. After completing his work at the University of Illinois, including two years in Bardeen's laboratory, Holonyak went on to work at Bell Laboratories with John Moll, where he and Moll made the first diffused silicon transistors and switches, metalecized silicon, and generally developed the technology behind the rise of Silicon Valley and today's chips. Before returning to the University of Illinois as a professor, Holonyak also served in the Army and worked at GE
Holst, Knud - From 1961 through 1972, Holst served as head of electronic development and then head of development at Bang & Olufsen, and he details projects he oversaw during this period. The interview covers Holst's work on transistor radios and stereo radios for Bang & Olufsen. He describes the influences of technology and design in development of the transistorized mains-operated receiver, and he analyzes the roles of the outside designers Bang & Olufsen hired, including Jacob Jensen. Engineers and designers collaborated on product development, working with components and materials.
Honaman, Karl - early leader in the dissemination of technical information, received a bachelor's degree in physics in 1916, and a masters degree in 1917 from Franklin and Marshall College. In 1917 he joined the Bureau of Standards, where he worked until 1919. Honaman then joined AT&T. When AT&T established Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1925, he moved there, where he remained until his retirement in 1960. During WWII, Honaman directed Bell Lab's School for War Training. After the war, Honaman became Director of Publications. During 1954 and 1955, he served both as a consultant to the US Secretary of Commerce and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
Hoolihan, Dan - A physicist by training, Hoolihan began his engineering career in EMC at Control Data. He is currently president of Hoolihan EMC Consulting and serves on the Board of Directors for the EMC Society.
Hooper, Don - began a two-year rotational program with Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) in New Jersey. After completing the program, he decided to work with the distribution and transmission department improving and expanding the electrical power grid. Twenty years later he became involved with the National Electrical Safety Code (NESC) in 1969, updating and revising it every three to five years. He retired from PSEG in 1988 and started a consultancy; at the time of the interview Hooper continued to serve as chair of the NESC Interpretation Committee
Hotz, Mel - Worked on Westinghouse field test equipment and electronic warfare and countermeasures and was involved in projects such as ALQ-119, ALQ-153 and DIDS
Howard, Ayanna - founder of Zyrobotics, a company that develops therapy and educational products for children with disabilities
Huang, Thomas - arrived at MIT and completed his doctorate in 1963, working under Bill Schrieber. He was appointed to the faculty of MIT that same year. He remained at MIT until 1973, when he took a position as an electrical engineering professor and director of Information and Signal Processing Laboratory at Purdue University. In 1980 he was offered a chaired position in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has remained there since. Career milestones include a major role in the development of transform coding in the late 1960s and in organization of the 1969 image coding conference at MIT
Hubing, Todd - IEEE Fellow, left a career in industry to pursue academic research in EMC. He taught at University Missouri Rolla, where he founded one of the first EMC research centers in the country. After seventeen years, he left UMR for Clemson University and was a former president of the EMC Society
Hull, Roger - worked for Leland Electric as a motor design engineer until 1937, then for NCR (National Cash Register Company) until he retired in 1972. First he worked on contact protection of speed control on cash registers and on the phone hookup from a cash register to a credit office to verify a charge account. During World War II he worked for Joe Desch’s project—on a primitive calculator involving thyratron tubes and on a counting board. After the war he returned to working on cash registers. He helped put induction motors in cash registers ca. 1960, worked on an adding machine that could print out a line of text when you pressed a single button, worked on portable battery-operated machines, a special machine for use in payrolls, and a Gerber Plotter, used for making masters for printed circuit boards
Humphry, Kathy - Humphry’s work in communications began as a telephone switching technician at Standards Telephones and Cable. She continued this work at Blue Cross/Blue Shield before teaching and providing technical support at Open University and the University of Edinburgh. She went on to work as a programmer at Xilinx
Hutchinson, Seth - longtime faculty member at the University of Illinois, has devoted much of his career to the intersection of computer vision and robotics
Hwang, Jennie - studied Chemistry at some of the best schools in Taiwan before continuing her higher education at Columbia University studying Chemistry and at Kent University studying the pioneering field of Liquid Crystal Science, before earning her Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University’s Materials Science and Engineering School, becoming the first woman to do so. Hwang’s professional career included executive positions at both Lockheed Martin and Sherwood Williams, and serving as Engineering Advisor to the United States Defense Department’s Army Material Command. Her achievements included induction into the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame and the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She was the first woman from Ohio and first Asian-American women to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the first national woman president of Surface Mount Technology Association

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Impagliazzo, John - IEEE Life Fellow, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Hofstra University (Hempstead, NY, USA), author of Deterministic Aspects of Mathematical Demography: An Investigation of Stable Population Theory including an Analysis of the Population of Denmark (1985) and he co-authored the English edition of The Legacy of John Von Neumann (1990). He also co-authored numerous computing and mathematics textbooks, including Computer Science: A Breadth-First Approach with C (1995); Computer Science: A Breath-First Approach with Pascal (1995); Mathematics: Back to Basics (1978); and Precalculus: A Functional Approach with Applications (1977).
Inoue, Hirochika - professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo. He has had a varied career in robotics, including extensive work on humanoid robots
Ireland, Eleanor - During WWII, Ireland joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service and was stationed at Bletchley Park, where she operated the Colossus computers as part of an elite, top-secret codebreaking team
Isaak, James - member of the IEEE Computer Society since 1971. He led the POSIX standards effort from 1984 through 1994, as work expanded to 30 projects with involvement by over 500 volunteers
Ishiguro, Hiroshi - worked in computer vision, and in interactive and intelligent robotics
Itakura, Fumitada - worked as a Resident Visitor in the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Labs under James Flanagan from 1973 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1981, he researched problems in speech analysis and synthesis based on the Line Spectrum Pair [LSP] method. In 1981, he was appointed as Chief of the Speech and Acoustics Research Section at NTT. He left this position in 1984 to take a professorship in communications theory and signal processing at Nagoya University. His major contributions include theoretical advances involving the application of time static stochastic process, linear prediction, and maximum likelihood classification to speech recognition. He patented the PARCOR vocoder in 1969 and helped to design Fujitsu's speech recognition chip in the early 1980s
Iwasa, Yukikazu - earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT. He has spent his entire career at the Francis Bitter Magnet Lab at MIT, where his work has focused on the study, development, and design of superconducting magnets
Izawa, Tatsuo - pioneer in the field of optical devices and components for communication systems. He invented the electro-migration method for the fabrication of planar lightwave circuits and the Vapor-phase Axial Deposition (VAD) method of optical fiber fabrication. He also conducted pioneering work on silica-based planar lightwave circuits. Izawa has spent the majority of his career as a researcher and manager at the Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT).

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Jacobs, Irwin - Marconi Fellow, IEEE Life Fellow, and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, co-founded the Linkabit consulting company and Qualcomm
James, Joan Leamy - Secretary for Dr. Britton Chance at the MIT Rad Lab
Jaron, Dov - Biomedical Engineer who was a President of the IEEE EMBS and co-developed the intra-aortic balloon pump
Jarvis, Ray - IEEE Life Fellow, divided his career between the Australian National University and Monash University. His research spanned a wide range of topics in robotics, including computer vision, intelligent robots, path and pattern recognition and planning, and image processing
Jenniches, F. Suzanne (2010 - IEEE)
Jenniches, F. Suzanne (2010 - SWE)
Jensen, Jacob - opened his own studio, Jacob Jensen Design, in 1958. Clients' familiarity with Jensen's work for Bernadotte and Bjørn led to the JJD studio's early design projects. Simultaneously, Jensen worked on hi-fi product design and operated the European branch for Latham, Tyler & Jensen, a design firm with which he had worked in the U.S. In 1964 Jensen continued his work in hi-fi design for Bang & Olufsen, leading to the Beomaster 5000 tuner and amplifier product marketed in 1967
Joel, Amos (1992) - In 1940, Joel went to work at Bell Labs, and over his long career there he worked in many areas and projects, such as the accounting center, operator services, transistors, electronic switching system at Whippany, Stored Program Control, No. 1 ESS and Traffic Service Positions System (TSPS) to name a few, as well as becoming a director
Joel, Amos (1993)
Joenk, Rudy - received his PhD in 1962 from the University of Pittsburgh and started in the same year working at the IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. Six years later, he became an Associate Editor for the IBM Journal of Research and Development and in 1971 an Editor.
Joffe, Elya - first Israeli president of the EMC Society, Joffe began his long career in defense consulting as a soldier in the IDF. His training in EMC engineering has taken him across the globe, from working with Voice of America to Lockheed Martin and back. This experience fed back into his career as president, characterized by his efforts to globalize EMC Society
Johns, Richard J. - Spent his career at Johns Hopkins, where he became the first Director of the Biomedical Engineering as a separate department at Hopkins in 1970
Johnson, Barry - 1997 IEEE Computer Society President, served as Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is founder and director of the University of Virginia Center for Safety-Critical Systems. In 1998, he was a founder of Privaris, Inc., a biometric security company
Johnston, Lawrence - Worked for Luis Alvarez in the MIT Rad Lab as a project engineer for the blind-landing GCA project
Jones, Karen Spärck - Spärck Jones’ started her prolific research career in natural language processing and information retrieval at Cambridge University. She invented inverse document frequency weighting, a technique used in online search engines today. A leader in the field, she served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1994
Jones, William - Worked on Westinghouse projects such as AWACS, Overland Radar Technology, and phased array. He later became Electronic Warfare General Manager and headed parts of the commercial division
Joshi, Ravindra - Ravindra Joshi earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from IIT and an MBA from Lancaster University, UK. He has more than forty years of large corporate experience. He is with Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited as Head of Department of Special Consumer Group. He has served as Treasurer & Chair-Human Technology Challenge Standing Committee of IEEE-Delhi Section Executive Committee, IEEE Delhi Section Execom Chair, and on the IEEE Delhi Section SIGHT Standing Committee. He has also been an active member of the IEEE Power and Energy Society.

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Kahn, Hilary - Kahn’s introduction to computing began with the KDF 9 and ALGOL computers. She worked as a researcher in the Computer Science department at Manchester University, engaged in computer-aided design and software engineering projects like COBOL and the MU5 computer system
Kahn, Robert - Marconi Fellow and an IEEE Life Fellow, played an instrumental role in the creation of the Internet, from the creation of ARPANET through ARPANET's transformation into the Internet
Kailath, Thomas - IEEE Fellow, from 1961 to 1962 he worked at JPL in Pasadena, California, and concurrently taught part-time at California Institute of Technology. From 1963 to the present he has been a professor in the EE department at Stanford University. He was involved in the development of Stanford's Information Systems Laboratory from 1971 to 1981. In 1981, Kailath became a co-founder of Integrated Systems, Inc., a small company specializing in the development and licensing of high-level CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) software and hardware products for the analysis, design and implementation of control systems in a variety of applications
Kaiser, James - IEEE Fellow, In the Bell Labs Research Department Dr. Kaiser worked on projects such as acoustic concentration with microphones, improving speech signal processing systems, developing filter design algorithms, and spectral window research. His focus was on filter design, particularly in those which would convert analog data to digital for various communications purposes. In the 1980s, he concentrated on nonlinear approaches to filter design. When the Bell System broke up in 1984, he moved to Bellcore, the newly established research operation owned jointly by the divested local Bell telephone companies
Kaleda, Laurel - served as the 1994 president of the Computer Society. She attended Washington University, St. Louis, where she graduated in 1966 from the newly formed Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. She worked as an engineer and manager at IBM in programming assurance, mainframe disk storage, and intellectual property at San Jose, Menlo Park, and Santa Teresa. At the Computer Society, she provided leadership in standards and as VP-Technical Activities
Kalow, Samuel - Kalow married Charles Peirce’s daughter, worked with Peirce from 1956 to 1959, and learned most of the Peirce company history from his father-in-law. Peirce bought Radiotechnic Laboratories in 1938, turned it into Peirce Wire Recorder Corporation, and developed the airborne wire recorder to sell to the air force during World War II (and a successor machine with a cartridge/cassette during the Korean War). After the war he converted these into a commercial magnetic recording machine. He introduced a magnetic belt to his machine, made them transistorized and portable, and changed the name of the company to Peirce Dictation Systems in 1955. In 1959 he sold out the company to IBM, which then used his technology as the basis for their own line of dictation machines. Peirce was a consultant for IBM for two years, then retired. Kalow then transferred to IBM as a salesman and manager, where he made his ensuing career. His final comment is that dictation machines are a marginal industry, only useful to a small fraction of people.
Kaneko, Makoto - IEEE Life Fellow, outlines his career in robotics and his contributions to various projects, such as the walking robot and the multi-fingered hand. He discusses his experiments with the hand, the impact of his work, the future direction of his research, and future applications of robotics
Kang, In-Ku - taught at the Korean Naval Academy for a few years before continuing his education in the United States at the University of New Mexico where he earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1967. In the early 1970s, Kang helped to start an electrical engineering department at the Osan Institute of Technology (later Osan University), then he was drafted into the Agency for Defense Development (ADD) in 1973. Kang retired from the Korean Navy in 1979 and left ADD in 1980, beginning his career at GoldStar (now LG). He stayed at LG for fifteen years, during which time he was involved in the PBX switching system, MRI (for which he received the 1984 Presidential Award in Electronic System Development), semiconductors, and LCD development in the early 1990s
Kang, Jin Ku - began employment with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, where his projects included calculator and electronic switching system development. KIST and Samsung joined to form Samsung-GTE Telecommunications for electronic switching equipment production, and the KIST switching project transferred to the new Samsung-GTE. From 1977 through 1980, Kang continued switching work at Samsung-GTE. From 1980 to 1982, Kang worked at Korea Electric Telecom, or Tetri, a predecessor to Etri. At this new company, created through governmental support, Kang worked on public switching system development and on software development, directing the switching system software development laboratory. In 1982, Kang worked at Trigent Computer; a private company manufacturing PCs; beginning in 1983 he worked at the new Trigent Microsystems computer workstation company
Kang, Ki Dong - While at Ohio State, Kang was asked to take part in the new semiconductor lab working on device fabrication and diffusion, influencing Kang’s later work in the semiconductor industry. After graduating, Kang joined Motorola in 1962 in the semiconductor division, and he was unofficially part of opening a Korean assembly operation for Motorola. Kang then worked for Stuart Warner Corporation, where he contributed to the assembly operation, helped set-up a plant in Taiwan, and had projects like the seat-belt interlock system. While at Stuart Warner, Kang became interested in starting his own semiconductor operation, eventually starting Integrated Circuit International, Incorporated (ICII) making watch chips. Kang eventually sold ICII to Samsung and was employed by the company a few years before leaving Samsung and the semiconductor industry
Kang, Sung Mo (Steve) - began attending Yonsei University in electrical engineering, coming to the United States in his senior year to attend Fairleigh Dickinson University, a sister school of Yonsei. He received his masters at SUNY Buffalo, and attended Berkeley for his doctorate working on memristive systems, finishing in 1975. After graduating, Kang taught for two years at Rutgers University before going to work at Bell Labs in 1977. Involved in microprocessor development, Kang stayed at Bell Labs until 1985, when he moved back into academia at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, eventually becoming department chair. In 2001, Kang went to UC Santa Cruz as Dean of Engineering, and began serving as Chancellor at UC Merced in 2007. Kang also joined the IEEE in 1972, and has been editor-in-chief of a journal and society president
Kant, Milton - worked as an engineer for the Air Force before beginning a career in industry. He is a cofounder of the IRE Professional Group on Radio Interference
Kao, Charles - A pioneer in the development of fiber optics for telecommunications and a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics
Kaplan, Frederic - spent his career in robotics, starting from his job at Sony to his position at EPFL and made contributions to various robotics projects, including the Sony AIBO robot
Kapor, Mitchell - founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, as well as an entrepreneur, philanthropist, social activist, and investor. He founded Lotus in 1982, served as President (later Chairman) and Chief Executive Officer from 1982 to 1986, and as Director until 1987. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ON Technology from 1987 to 1990
Karger, Gunther - Gunther Karger was born on 16 March 1933 in Schmieheim, Germany. In 1939, his parents sent him on a transport of children to Sweden to escape from Nazi Germany. He was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust and after World War II he was sent to the United States. After graduating high school as valedictorian, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, where he worked on radar systems. After leaving the Air Force, he enrolled in Louisiana State University, where he graduated in 1958. Karger held positions at Boeing, Bell Labs, and Eastern Airlines, and was involved with IEEE in several volunteer positions, including editor for the IEEE Communications Society Newsletter, member of the Executive Committee of the IEEE North Jersey Section, and chair of the IEEE Canaveral Section.
Karplus, Walter - Applied his work using computers to solve partial differential equations to many different areas. He has served as computer science department chair and interim dean at UCLA
Kasturi, Rangachar - joined the Pennsylvania State University in 1982. A few years later President Emeritus Tse Yun Feng, who was heading its Computer Engineering program, introduced him to the IEEE Computer Society and its volunteer service opportunities. For more than 30 years, Kasturi has served in many significant roles at IEEE CS including editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vice President of various boards (Publications, Conferences, Membership, and Geographic Activities), Treasurer, Board of Governors member and its chair, and President
Kataoka, Katsutaro - Kataoka graduated from Kobe University in the 1930’s and joined the Toshiba Corporation. After a short time with Toshiba, Kataoka entered the Japanese military. In 1943 he returned to Toshiba, but left again in 1945 to start his own company, Alps Electric.
Katehi, Linda - IEEE Life Fellow “for contributions to phased array packaging and high-frequency characterization of novel feeding networks for printed antennas and arrays.”. She taught electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, rising from Assistant Professor to Professor and later an Associate Dean (1984-2002). She then spent four years as Dean of Engineering and professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Purdue University (2002-2006); three years as Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2006-2009); and seven years as Chancellor and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, 2009-2016. In 2016, Katehi resigned as Chancellor, but remained on faculty at the University of California, Davis, and since 2019, she has been Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Katz, J. Lawrence - Applied crystal physics to biological studies and was one of the founders of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Kavraki, Lydia - Noah Harding professor of computer science at Rice University in Houston
Kawamura, Sadao - Proposed and helped establish Ritsumeikan University’s Department of Robotics, the first department of robotics in the world. He has been a professor at this department since 1996 and a director of Ritsumeikan University’s Robotics Research Center since 2011. He served as president of the Robotics Society of Japan from 2011 to 2013
Kayton, Myron - spent much of his career working for TRW, NASA, and Litton, followed by running his own practice for 18 years. In his career he is most proud of his work on lunar modular electronics, shuttle electronics, and military cruise missiles. In the 1970s he had significant involvement in the Aerospace Society of the IEEE. He found the IEEE useful in his career as a way of meeting colleagues worldwide, and as a convenient place to publish research and reduce duplicated effort. He discusses what he thinks will be the future of guidance and navigation systems, predicting the spread of for-profit GPS systems, the spread of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), and the replacement of Very High-Frequency Omni-Ranges (VOHR), which currently control the airways, by GPS systems.
Keller, Arthur C. - spent his entire career with the Bell System, beginning with his first job in 1918 as a laboratory assistant for the Western Electric Company. While employed, Keller completed his education, graduating from Cooper Union in 1923. He then went on to do graduate work at Yale and Columbia. Keller's early work at Bell Laboratories was in sound recording and reproduction, under the direction of Henry Harrison. Keller held many patents related to his work in sound recording, including one in the late 1930s which covered the basic principles of stereophonic recording. During WWII, he was involved in the development of four major sonar systems for the US Navy. After the war, he continued his work with Bell Laboratories, which included the development of the wire spring relay and solderless wire wrapping
Keller, Laurie - Before becoming the first woman lecturer in computing at Open University, Keller worked as a programmer for Electronic Data Systems, TRW, Iraq Petroleum, Texas Instruments, and Continental Airlines
Kern, Jack - started his first job as an errand boy in the Engineering Model Shop at the National Cash Register Company. He took interest in and built experience in electricity, enabling him to move from the Engineering Department to the Research Department in late 1940. Kern worked on the development of off-on tubes and ran the Tube Lab at NCR. In 1947, he developed the first prototype of a printed circuit. While working at NCR, Kern pursued higher education by attending the University of Dayton, Ohio, at night. During World War II, he made an electronic counter for Aberdeen Proving Grounds and participated in the Bombe project, ULTRA, a secret Navy project. Under strict security, Kern and others relocated to Building 26 to carry out this project. There, Kern took care of various duties, including commutator testing and tape punch assembly
Kesselman, Warren A. - spent his career as an engineer for the Army at Fort Monmouth, where he was Chief of the COMSEC Division, head of the EMC team, and deputy director of the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate
Khatib, Oussama - IEEE Life Fellow, discusses his career in robotics, focusing on robot control and motion planning. Describing his work and research, he outlines his time at Stanford University and his involvement in several robotics projects, including the Stanford Robotics Platforms—Romeo and Juliet. Discussing the evolution and challenges of his work, he describes his move towards humanoid robotics and his involvement with robotics societies and activities. He also provides career advice for young people interested in robotics
Khosla, Pradeep - spent his career in robotics, focusing on manipulation and control, worked at Carnegie Mellon University and DARPA on projects like the SCARA design and the direct-drive arm, the reconfigurable modular manipulator system, swarm robotics, and warfare robotics
Kiesler, Sara - worked on anthropomorphic robots, human-robot interaction, cognitive and social design, and projects such as Pearl and organizing and developing the HRI conferences.
Kihara, Nobutoshi - A mechanical engineer employed by Sony. He is best known for his development of video tape recording technology
Kikuchi, Makoto - A researcher in semiconductor physics and electronics who served as the Director of Sony’s Research Center.
Kilby, Jack - best known as the co-inventor of the integrated circuit. He conceived and built the first integrated circuit at Texas Instruments in 1958, simultaneously with Robert Noyce's independent integrated circuit work at Fairchild in California. Kilby then built the first computer using integrated circuits at Texas Instruments in 1961. Six years later he and two co-workers invented the first pocket calculator to show how useful integrated circuits would be in daily life, not just powerful government or military applications
Kilgore, Lee - While attending the University of Nebraska's engineering school, he took summer jobs that eventually led him to work at Westinghouse. He spent his career working on various technologies used in power generation, including generators and switchgear, as well as motors for wind tunnels
Kim, Jae Kyoon - graduated from the National Aviation College in Seoul in 1961 and received a Master’s degree from Seoul National University. He studied in the United States at the University of Southern California from 1967 to 1971 and subsequently worked at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for one year. In 1973, he returned to Korea to be an assistant professor at KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), where he would spend the next few decades. KAIST was founded with government funding and was initially staffed with Korean engineering and science talents who, like Kim, were educated in the United States. From the onset, the emphasis was in theoretical as well as applied research. KAIST became Korea’s foremost center of strategic R&D projects. The University helped pioneer the establishment of competitive graduate school programs in Korea
Kim, Yong Sun - After studying telecommunications engineering at Seoul National University, Yong Sun Kim worked for the Ministry of Communications, Korea Telecom, and Gold Star. At the time of this interview, he worked for the LG (Lucky-Gold Star) Academy, the company's training group, having served for seven years as this Academy's president.
Kind, Dieter - IEEE Fellow, began his engineering study at the technical university in Berlin and finished his engineering diploma at the Munich Technical University. In 1957 he received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the Technical of Munich. Kind's research focused on high voltage engineering, particularly the electric strengths of various gases and the breakdown for voltage discharge. After earning his doctorate, he went to work in the high voltage field, designing test and instrument transformers for safe conduction of electric power. He later joined the Braunschweig Technical University for High Voltage Technique and in 1975 became President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt national technical research institute in Braunschweig
King, Archie - the son of Alsatian immigrants, had only a year of high school education when he entered Cal Tech. He graduated in 1927. After working at the Mt. Wilson Observatory, King took a position with Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1930, where he remained until his retirement in 1961. After retiring, King returned to California and worked for several years for the Hughes Aircraft Company
King, John - W.W. Bishop Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. For many years prior, he had served as a faculty member and administrator in the information school at the University of California Irvine. He held both faculty and administrative roles at Michigan in both the School of Information and the university central administration. His main research deals with computerization in the public sector and municipalities, as well as other organizations. He has also worked on privacy issues and some of the primary computerization projects
King, Willis - 2002 IEEE Computer Society President, worked at the IBM Laboratorien, Germany, in 1963 and 1964. He has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston since 1969 and served as its chair from 1979 to 1992. He is a professor emeritus of the University of Houston and a fellow of the IEEE and the Computing Sciences Accreditation Board (CSAB).
Kirby, Richard - interrupted his college studies of electrical engineering at the University of Minnesota to join the Army Signal Corps during World War II. In service he worked to improve the reliability of Army High Frequency. Returning to the US, he worked for a broadcasting corporation in Missouri (1946-48), and spent the next two decades excluding another year at the University of Minnesota, 1950-51) at the National Bureau of Standards, largely at the Central Radio Propagation Laboratory. His research focused on Very High Frequency (VHF) scatter propagation. He was heavily involved in international standards-setting through the Comité Consultatif International des Radiocommunications (CCIR) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), working to set standards for color television, high definition television, advanced mobile systems, and 3G mobile. He also was significantly involved in various IRE and IEEE communications group activities. In 1969 he became director of the Institute for Telecommunication Science. From 1974 to 1994 he went to Geneva to work as director of ITU’s CCIR
Kircher, Mary - An early pioneer of women in computing, Kircher spent her programming career at Los Alamos, where she worked on Marchant calculators, MANIAC, FORTRAN, BASIC, and Hewlett-Packard languages
Kjaer, Viggo - studied electronics under Peder O. Pedersen and Jens Nielsen at the Technical University in Copenhagen. After completing his degree in 1939, Kjær designed receivers for companies manufacturing radios. In 1942 Kjær formed the Brüel & Kjær instrumentation company with his University colleague Per Brüel. Beginning in 1944, Kjær focused on this company full time, taking on management and design roles
Klafter, Richard - IEEE Life Fellow, President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 1994-1995, co-author of the early robotics textbook, Robotic Engineering: An Integrated Approach, and longtime professor at Drexel University and Temple University
Kleinrock, Leonard - Marconi Fellow and an IEEE Life Fellow, played an important role in the development of ARPANET and of packet switching theory. Recipient of the 2007 National Medal of Science
Kline, Ron - briefly attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the computer science program, but then pursued his interest in history at the University of Wisconsin’s program in History of Science in 1977, studying the history of electrical engineering. After getting his Ph.D., Kline taught one year of technical writing at Wisconsin before becoming director of the Center for the History of Electrical Engineering (now the IEEE History Center) in 1984. During his time at the center, Kline also taught at Cooper Union and researched the life of Charles Proteus Steinmetz. In the late 1980s, Kline left the center for a position at Cornell University in the electrical engineering school teaching the history of technology, and he runs the Bovay Program in History and Ethics of Engineering. Kline also became active in the Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) while at Cornell, and he served as the society’s president (1991-1992) and editor of its magazine
Knight, C. Raymond - demonstrated an early interest in engineering, building crystal radio sets and tube operated short-wave receivers in high school. Although physics appealed to him, he pursued a degree in electrical engineering on the advice of his brother-in-law. (He would later return to school to complete a master’s degree in physics.) In addition to Knight’s advancement of the practical development of tube applications, particularly with regard to problems of reliability, he made significant theoretical contributions to the literature on the subject
Kobayashi, Koji - synonymous with the acronym C&C, or Control and Communication, in the computing, electronics, and telecommunications industries. Upon his graduation from Tokyo Imperial University in 1929, Kobayashi joined the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), a Japanese subsidiary of the Western Electric Company. Koji Kobayashi’s long career with NEC spanned various roles within the company: head of the Tamagawa Plant in 1946; Director of NEC in 1949; Senior Vice President in 1956; Executive Vice President in 1961; Senior Executive Vice President in 1962; President in 1964 and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in 1976. Dr. Kobayashi received his Doctor of Engineering from the Tokyo University in 1939, and continued to amass various honorary doctorate degrees and awards throughout his lifetime
Koch, Richard - engineer at Regency Electronics who headed the design of the first transistorized radio, the TR-1, introduced in 1954
Koditschek, Daniel - IEEE Life Fellow, Chair of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in which he currently serves as the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor
Kogelnik, Herwig - Marconi Fellow and an IEEE Life Fellow, made important contributions to laser technologies, including the invention of the distributed feedback laser
Kokotovic, Petar (1995) - Native of Belgrade and an IEEE Life fellow, studied widely in both Eastern and Western Europe before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois where in the 1960s he developed the sensitivity points method for the automatic tuning of industrial controllers
Kokotovic, Petar (2011)
Kosecka, Jana - on the faculty at George Mason University, author of "An Invitation to 3-D Vision: From Images to Geometric Models," and recipient of the Marr Prize and a National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Kosuge, Kazuhiro - IEEE Life Fellow, is a professor in the department of robotics at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, and works on the Dancer Robot Project
Kraft, Donald - IEEE Life Fellow and is professor emeritus, at Louisiana State University and his research, teaching, and publishing career has focused on bringing techniques from operations research, fuzzy logic, and genetic algorithms to information retrieval
Kragic, Danica - on the faculty at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Sweden
Krener, Arthur - IEEE Life Fellow, received a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1971 from the University of California, Berkeley and spent his career on the faculty of the University of California, Davis. He was recipient of the 2006 IEEE Control System Society Bode Prize Lecture “for fundamental contributions to the foundations of geometric nonlinear control theory”.
Kressel, Henry - IEEE Life Fellow, RCA vice president of solid-state electronic research and development
Kretz, Hans - studied in Vienna, where he built cybernetic models that demonstrated conditioned learning. Employed by Philips Austria, he first developed transistorized TVs before becoming the chief manager of the applications laboratory. In the interview, he discusses the landmarks in Austrian electronic progress, in particular the move to transistors and then to integrated circuits. He cites a number of Austrian inventions, including an avalanche detection device and a hearing aid. He also discusses the advent of automation in producing components, the transition from tubes to transistors at Philips, the development of microprocessors and the evolution of passive components. He ends with the mention of an inexpensive laser diode invented at Philips Austria that became part of their laser-disc players
Krim, Norman B. - a 1934 MIT graduate in electrical engineering, was influential in the development of transistor radio technologies. During a lengthy career at Raytheon, Krim oversaw tubes and semiconductors, served as Vice President, and performed as Raytheon corporate archivist. Krim was also president of Radio Shack from 1961 to 1963 and served as president of the Joseph Pollak Corporation before his retirement
Kroemer, Herbert - 2000 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, worked at house physicist at Central Communications Lab, where he got the idea for heterostructure bipolar transistors. After spending three years at RCA labs, he returned to Germany to head Phillips Semiconductor Group, working on gallium arsenide technology in 1957. Returning to the United States, he worked at Varian Associates, and studied the Gunn effect. In 1968 went to University of Colorado, and in 1975 to University of California Santa Barbara
Kuck, David - Developed the Parafrase compiler system, led the construction of the CEDAR project and made contributions to the design of parallel computing and memory
Kumar, Anurag - IEEE Life Fellow, Director emeritus of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, co-author of Wireless Networking (2008) with D. Manjunath and Joy Kuri; and co-edited Communication Networking: An Analytical Approach (2004)
Kumar, Vijay - Founder of Exyn Technologies, a company that develops solutions for autonomous flight and Nemirovsky Family Dean of Penn Engineering (with appointments) with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, the Department of Computer and Information Science, and the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Kuo, Chung-Chieh Jay - joined the University of Southern California (USC) in January 1989. He is Director of the Multimedia Communication Laboratory, Holder of the William H. Hogue Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at USC
Kyhl, Robert - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab magnetron group and the test equipment group
Kyotani, Yoshihiro - An engineer who worked on Japanese National Railroad, including in the development of the Bullet Train

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Labuda, Edward F. - joined AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ, in June of 1959. After a 35 year career, he retired from AT&T as Vice President, AT&T Microelectronics and Chief Operating Officer of the Photonics Business Unit. His business unit responsibilities included marketing, product planning, finance, research and development operations in Breinigsville, PA, and Murray Hill, NJ, and manufacturing operations in Reading, PA, and Clark, NJ, a sub-cable repeater assembly plant
Laker, Ken - 1999 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow, and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, spent his career as chair and faculty member of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a leading expert on microelectronic filters. As IEEE President, he led IEEE in embracing the internet, through IEEE Xplore for electronic publishing, an improved website, and the IEEE Virtual Museum
Land, Susan (Kathy) - 2021 IEEE President, Program Manager for the U.S. Department of Defense’s Missile Defense Agency
Lang, William - IEEE Fellow, joined IBM in 1958 to work on low noise computers and office machines, leading him to a career in noise control engineering. He was a leader in this field, helping found in 1971 the International Institute of Noise Control Engineering, dedicated to the application of "physical and engineering principles to the control of environmental noise." His involvement in standards-setting bodies like ANSI led to the formation of certain advances in measurement techniques
Langer, Erich - studied at the University of Vienna and joined Philips Austria in 1963, where he stayed until his retirement in 1996. During his time at Philips, Länger concentrated on video recording equipment. In the interview, he recounts the milestones in the technology, from the EL-3400 – which only recorded in black-and-white and required threading the tape through a drum – through the Video 2000 cassette system, which recorded in color
Lapostolle, Pierre - studied at the École des Telecommunications before his military service with the Allied forces during World War II. After the war, Lapostolle joined the Paris laboratory of the French Centre National d'Études des Telecommunications (CNET), researching microwave amplification. His work on the traveling wave tube and particle acceleration shaped his 1947 Ph.D. thesis, directed by A. Blanc LaPierre. In the mid 1950s, Lapostolle joined CERN, the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, and worked on the design and installation of its proton synchrotron in Geneva. Around 1960, Lapostolle's work at CERN transitioned to particle separation and then to machine improvements. He developed a new, longer accelerator, still in use by CERN at the time of this 1996 interview
Larsen, Peer Martin - 1995–1996 director of IEEE Region 8, original member of the IEEE Denmark Section, serving as chair from 1970 to 1971 and 1985 to 1988
Larson, Robert E. - 1982 IEEE President, a successful engineer/entrepreneur, as IEEE President he balanced the number of board members representing technical societies at ten, the same as the number of board members representing geographic regions
Lathrop, Jay - IEEE Fellow, joined the National Bureau of Standards' Harry Diamond Laboratories, where he worked the microminiaturization of solid-state circuits for the U.S. Department of Defense. For this work he was awarded the Department of the Army Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1959. The previous year Lathrop joined Texas Instruments, where he continued his work on miniaturization of integrated circuits. He joined the faculty of Clemson University in 1968, where he is a professor of electrical engineering. During the 1970s he oversaw students' research into the characteristics of solar cells and co-invented the solar chemical converter system of energy conversion
Laumond, Jean-Paul - transitioned from mathematics to robotics and made contributions in motion planning and anthropomorphic motion. Was involved at CNRS and robotics projects, such as HILARE
Laverick, Elizabeth - IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, after graduating, Laverick went to work for GEC Stanmore, doing microwave research. She then joined the Elliott Brothers firm, working on microwave instruments and directing radar research. Eventually Laverick became Technical Director of the company. In 1971 she left Elliott Brothers to become Deputy Secretary of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (U.K.), where she focused on Institute expenditures, the accreditation process for university engineering programs, and on helping IEE develop technical standards for electrical engineers. She has been closely involved with the Women’s Engineering Society, and was chair of the Institute of Physics’ Women in Physics Committee. Laverick helps plan International Conferences of Women Engineers and Scientists, and encourages women to enter the engineering and science professions
Law, Harold B. - Focused on the development of camera tubes, including work on the image orthicon, the vidicon camera tube, and the photo-deposition of phosphors
Lawrence, Robert - consulting applications engineer for Westinghouse who ultimately became head of Westinghouse's Electrical Utility Engineering Unit. He received a bachelor's degree from Pratt Institute, and specialized in electrical engineering. After his graduation, he went to work for Westinghouse, eventually interning in and then being placed with the Central Station Engineering unit in Pittsburgh, which specialized in applications engineering. He is best known for his development of a high voltage DC transmission system for residential areas, which, although it offered a cost-effective and technologically efficient approach to power transmission, failed due to marketing and economic issues
Lax, Benjamin - At the MIT Rad Lab, worked on the L’il Abner radar, AN/TPS-10, and X-band height-finder
Lebel, Jean - began his relationship with IEEE (or more properly, its predecessor IRE) as a student at École Supérieure d'Électricité in France and read the publication, Proceedings of IRE. After returning to Europe, he continued to develop IRE’s presence in Europe. He helped in the founding of the French and Switzerland Sections in 1961 and 1960 respectively. After the the IRE made the transition to IEEE, he served as the Region 8 Director from 1965-1966. In this role he traveled to all the sections and started the participation of Region 8 in the Student Paper Contest
Lederer, Ernst - electrical engineer who worked for RCA, and National Union Vacuum Tube Company and Westinghouse. Lederer was born in Bohemia, developed a passion for technology early in life, and counted Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Edison among his heroes. After an unsuccessful foray into independent inventing, he served in World War I as an educator. After the War, Lederer accepted an offer from Westinghouse to work on lamp filament research. He later became one of the company's leading researchers in vacuum tubes. After working briefly for National Union, he took a job in the vacuum tube research department of Radio Corporation of America. Lederer contributed substantially to the design and manufacture of special tubes for British and American radar systems. During World War II, he traveled in Britain as a consultant to vacuum tube manufacturers and returned after 1945 to accept a position at Westinghouse. There, he worked on the development of television tubes
Lee, Daniel - worked in robotics, including research at Bell Labs and the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab
Lee, J. Kwon - educated at Seoul National University and began his career working for the Korean government, first for the Ministry of Defense and later for the Ministry of Telecommunications. He then moved to Lucky Gold Star (LG) and moved up the ranks to eventually become Vice Chairman of the Corporation. In this interview, Lee speaks about LG's early days, its creation of military technology as well as its competition and collaborations with other corporations. Lee also speaks about Gold Star's marketing strategies and his role in the Korea Manufacturers' Association
Leeson, David - IEEE Life Fellow, received his Ph.D. from Stanford University (Hughes Fellow) in 1962, M.S. from MIT (NSF Fellow), and B.S. from Caltech. He is consulting professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, serves as a director for wireless companies, and is executive officer of Leeson Foundation. Leeson has written a book on Yagi antennas and published seminal IEEE papers on nonlinear frequency multipliers, radar, and oscillator stability (“Leeson’s Model of Oscillator Noise”)
Lehman, Meir - Lehman obtained his Ph.D. in 1957 and moved to Haifa, Israel, where he continued his work for the Israeli Defense Ministry, designing low-budget digital computers with magnetic core memories. He helped develop second address registers (modifiers) and the use of printed circuit boards. Lehman then moved to the United States to work for IBM in its Yorktown Heights laboratory. There he designed arithmetic units for the supercomputer project and researched parallel processing. Between 1965 and 1968 he managed the Yorktown Heights Integrated Multi-Processor Project, which used simulation in hardware design. In 1972 Lehman began teaching at Imperial College, designing undergraduate courses in computing and control. In 1979 he became the head of the department, and helped found the Imperial Software Company in 1982. At the time of the interview, Lehman was on part-time contract with Imperial College after taking early retirement in the mid-1980s
Lehmann, Gerard - IEEE Life Fellow and an officer of the Légion d'Honeur, after World War II, Lehmann predicted industrial growth potential in servo-mechanics. As an employee of ITT's Paris laboratory, Lehmann established Société des Servomécanismes Électroniques (SME), a company to manufacture mechanical equipment. With SME's sale to Compagnie Générale d’Électricité (later Alcatel-Alsthom), Lehmann became Chief Scientist at CGE. There, his projects included research for the TGV high-speed train network. In his capacity as Chief Scientist, he also evaluated the economics of the electric car and of high-voltage power transmission in Africa. Lehmann retired in 1975 but continued to work in the larger field of electronics.
Leverenz, Humboldt W. - Worked on luminescent materials for development of an all-electronic television and made significant contributions to the development of the fluorescent lamp
Levine, Judah - joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1969, where he worked on various applications of frequency-stabilized lasers including laser radar systems and a 30 m interferometer that he used for various geophysical studies. He moved to the Time and Frequency division of NBS in 1972 and has worked in many areas of time and frequency since that time. His work in includes the design and realization of the NBS/NIST time scale that is used to compute UTC(NIST) and a number of applications to distribute time and frequency information to users by various digital methods
Levy, Moises - IEEE Life Fellow, Levy's research, chiefly at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, focused on the intersection of ultrasonics and superconductivity. He also played a central role in the development and evolution of the IEEE Council on Superconductivity
Lewis, Clayton (Nov 2020) - Coleman-Turner Professor of Computer Science and Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research involves technology and disability, human-computer interaction, educational technology, new approaches to programming, and representation and computation. He holds a BA from Princeton, an MS from MIT, and a PhD from Michigan. He worked for IBM prior to joining the University of Colorado. He is a member of the ACM CHI Academy and University of Colorado President’s Teaching Scholar
Lewis, Clayton (Dec 2020)
Lewis, Frank - Worked as a liaison between the MIT Radiation Lab crew and various government labs
Lewis, Peter - IEEE Life Fellow, had thirty-three year career at PSE&G and then joined the IEEE staff as Managing Director of Educational Activities. He has been a member of IEEE and its predecessor organizations, the Institute of Radio Engineers and the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, since 1955. He joined the IEEE Foundation Board in 2002 and was elected an IEEE Foundation director emeritus in 2008
Liddell, Heather - Liddell began her research career at Queen Mary College before joining the nascent Computer Science department. Her work, which applies programming to numerical problems and analysis, has covered laser optical filters, ICL and Atlas computers, and IBM machines
Lightner, Michael - 2006 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow, and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, has long been a faculty member of the Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering Department of the University of Colorado. As IEEE President, he attempted to create a lower-cost membership model
Lillie, Joseph V. - received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1974) and the M.S. in Telecommunications (1997) from the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He worked in telecommunications engineering and management for forty-six years and he has served in numerous IEEE positions at the section and region, and international levels, including as Region 5 Director (2000-2001).
Lin, Ming - authored or co-authored more than 250 papers in refereed technical and scientific publications and has edited, co-edited, or authored four books. She is known for her work on collision detection as well as the Lin-Canny algorithm
Liskov, Barbara (1991) - A pioneer in object-oriented programming whose work on data abstraction led to the design and implementation of CLU
Liskov, Barbara (2001)
Little, Joyce - During her academic career, Little created courses, published, and lectured on metrics and assurance for quality in software engineering, the impact, cyber-ethics for workforce education, and the role of women in computing. Little was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Data Processing Management Association (now AITP), and the IEEE Computer Society.
Liu, Bede - IEEE Life Fellow, worked for the Bell Laboratories technical staff from 1959 to 1962, and then joined the faculty of Princeton University. His pioneering digital signal processing research has focused upon floating-point arithmetic, developing various digital filters and processor programs, image processing for HDTV and medical imaging, and especially the development of discrete-time signal and system theory
Ljung, Lennart - IEEE Life Fellow, attended Lund University, earning a Ph.D. in Automatic Control (1974). His research field is control theory
Lopez, Antonio Luque - doctoral research was on lasers, and he became interested in the newly-born field of semiconductor research. He became a full professor of Electronics at the University of Madrid by 1970, at a young age, and was soon head of the Semiconductor Laboratory. During a visit to America ca. 1974 Luque became aware of the even-newer field of photovoltaics (solar energy) and decided to shift focus there, where he and Spain could do leading-edge research. In 1979 the Semiconductor Laboratory became the Institute for Solar Energy; since then it has grown slowly but steadily in quality and numbers. A second attempt at manufacture, this time of solar cells, produced the successful company of Isofoton, based at first on Luque’s invention of the bifacial solar cell. With some outside assistance and takeovers (Abengoa and Alcatel early, Verges later), Isofoton has now become profitable, one of the top ten photovoltaic firms in the world
Lovegrove, Gillian - Lovegrove’s academic career began at Cambridge, where she worked in the Maths Lab on EDSAC. She has taught at Portsmouth, Southampton, Staffordshire, and Northumbria, where she is currently Emeritus Professor of Computing and Software
Lovell, James - pioneer in the American space program, participated in the Gemini and Apollo missions, and was the first person to make a second voyage to the moon. Lovell retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Captain and later became President of Fisk Telephone Systems, an independent telecommunications company based in Houston, Texas
Lowden, Donald - technician who has worked on radios, TVs, and computers. He worked on a variety of technical jobs after he graduated grade school, eventually specializing in radio repair. He was also a ham radio enthusiast. From about 1937 to 1942 he worked as a radio repairman for General Electric; from 1942 to 1974 he worked as a technician for the National Cash Register Company (NCR). During World War II he worked under Joe Desch, primarily wiring, soldering, and assembling initial designs
Lozano-Perez, Tomas - worked at the AI Lab and IBM and involved in robotics projects, such as HANDEY
Lucky, Robert - Long-time Bell labs employee who invented automatic adaptive equalizers and researched digital switching

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Macdonald, J. Ross - worked at Armour Research Foundation and the Argonne National Laboratory before joining Texas Instruments in 1953. He was Director of the TI Physics Research Laboratory for several years and then became Director of the TI Central Research Laboratories. He served as TI's Vice President of Corporate Research and Engineering from 1968 until 1972, and was Vice President of Corporate Research and Development from 1973 until 1974. He was named the William Kenan Professor of Physics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1974. His research has been in areas such as ferromagnetic resonance, the electrical behavior of solids, electrical circuits, dielectric and mechanical relaxation, electrolyte double layers, and numerical analysis of experiments
Maclennan, Carol G. - completed an internship with the Bell Labs acoustics department during her undergraduate education at Pembroke College, returning to Bell Labs for employment in 1960. Excluding a brief period of employment on the computing staff of Cornell University, Maclennan worked at Bell Labs until her retirement in 2001. During her career, Maclennan worked on the block diagram (BLODI) compiler for speech processing and on spacecraft data analysis. She analyzed data from Jupiter and worked on the Pioneer and Voyager Missions project. Maclennan published over two hundred papers on a variety of topics in geophysics, including an index for gravitational waves based on the Chicago Stock Exchange. Maclennan details some of these publications and describes her research collaborations. Maclennan advanced to the position of MTS (member of technical staff) in 1980, working on instrument fieldwork for the magnetometer in Greenland and the Antarctic, and then on satellite communications
Maerfeld, Charles - pioneering works started as early as 1969 as he made the first experimental demonstration of the Bleustein Gulyaev wave. He demonstrated the existence of a New Shear Interfacial Wave now called the Maerfeld-Tournois Wave. His detailed analysis of the functioning of the Multistrip Coupler led to the invention of a beam width compressor that he used to build an efficient SAW Convolver
Malozemoff, Alexis P. - IEEE Life Fellow, spent the first nineteen years of his career at IBM research, where he was best known for the co-discovery of the “giant flux creep” and the irreversibility line in high temperature superconductors (HTS). He spent the remainder of his career at American Superconductor, where he was in charge, among other activities, of AMSC’s rise to a leading role in high temperature superconducting wire and its applications
Marimuthu, Ramalatha - educator for more than three decades with a vast experience in motivating and training the students on skill development and peer networking through leadership training workshops, international competitions, conferences and congresses. She also guides the students in developing unique solutions for social problems like inclusiveness and accessibility in day to day life for people with special needs. She has delivered lectures on assistive technology in universities and conferences all over the world and in Google, Mountainview and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland. Her areas of interest are assistive technology, women empowerment and effective education. She is the founder and General Chair of Youth Endeavours in Social Innovations through Science and Technology (YESIST12) which encourages students and young professionals to innovate for the benefit of humanity through trainings and competitions
Marko, Hans - telecommunications engineer and professor in Germany. He studied at the Technische Hochschule Stuttgart until 1951 when he earned his diploma in communication studies. His doctoral thesis was on distortion and frequency modulation. After working for a company affiliated with ITT, he went to work at SEL where he worked on data transmission over telephone lines, focusing particularly on error-detecting codes. In 1962, he was offered professorships at both the University of Aachen and the University of Munich; he accepted the position at Munich and taught communications techniques there until he retired
Marrs, Margaret - After working for Ferranti Computing Sytems, Marrs joined the faculty of Norwich University
Mason, Matt - IEEE Life Fellow, discusses his career in robotics, in particular in compliant motion, force control, and fine motion planning. Outlining his involvement in projects at IBM, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon University, he provides insight into the state and evolution of robotics. Describing his current work on manipulation and robotic hands, he comments on the future of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University and of the field as a whole
Mason, Warren P. - took a position with the Western Electric Company. While employed by Western Electric (later Bell Telephone Laboratories), he completed work on both a masters and Ph.D. at Columbia University. His early work involved carrier research as well as quartz crystal research. Mason also worked with ferroelectric crystals, and after WWII, his work was transferred to Shockley's solid-state division, where he focused on piezoelectric crystals and dielectric properties. From 1948, until his retirement from Bell in 1965, he headed the Mechanics Research Department, where he was involved in investigating mechanical properties of a vast array of materials and structures as they applied to Bell System uses. Upon retiring from Bell, Mason held a visiting professor appointment at Columbia University, and was a Senior Research Associate at the Henry Crumb School of Mines
Massey, James L. - Interested in communications engineering and information theory. He did significant work in forward-error-correcting codes, multi-user communications, and cryptographic systems
Masterson, Earl - joined RCA in Indianapolis, from 1941 to 1951 he worked in a group developing sound-on-film recording, and which moved to Camden after the end of World War II. Masterson worked on 16 mm sound-on-film projectors, automatic sound recording pick-ups, the 45-rpm record, and magnetic wire recording. This led to work on experimental tapes to record both sound and video, which in turn contributed to the home movie industry before the days of videotape. Masterson then began developing magnetic recording for digital information storage. In 1951 he moved from RCA to Univac, where he helped build computer printers. Twelve years after joining Univac, he moved to Honeywell, where he worked on peripheral equipment for computers. In 1977 he retired and began his own consulting company
Mataric, Maja - IEEE Fellow, is the Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California, and is a pioneer in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics
Mates, Robert - Biomedical engineering researcher, faculty of the University of Buffalo and founder of their Center for Biomedical Engineering
Matthies, Larry - Senior Research Scientist of Robotics at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has spent extensive time on the NASA Mars Rover project
Maxfield, Joseph - best known for his contributions to the development of the phonograph and sound recording for movies. He graduated from college in 1910, and after several years of teaching, took a position with the Western Electric Company. After serving in WWI, he began his work on high-quality recording for Bell
Mayer, Ferdy - In 1957, he started a private independent R&D company in France, Laboratories D'electronique et D'automatique (LEAD). Mayer has focused on basic physical research and valued person-to-person contacts as a means to obtain technological and scientific information. He has taught at several universities and offered numerous seminars for companies, providing his ideas for new products and applications. Ferdy Mayer has also established companies in different parts of the world, including England and the United States
Mayo, John - went to work at Bell Labs, his first work was the use of a Transistorized Digital Computer for control systems, especially radar applications. He then became supervisor for the T1 carrier project, department head, director of ocean systems (military applications), executive director of the #4ESS project (commercial telecommunications), executive vice president of Bell Labs in 1979, president of Bell Labs in 1991, and reached mandatory retirement age in 1995. He had a role in the creation of a new R&D paradigm that set the stage for Lucent Technologies, formed in 1996. His career also included work in the Pulse Code Modulation system, the Telstar satellite, and wireless communications
McAfee, Naomi (2010 - IEEE)
McAfee, Naomi (2010 - SWE)
McCarthy, John - a long time professor of computer science at Stanford, was a founder of the field of artificial intelligence and applied artificial intelligence to robotic arms. He also devised the LISP programming language.
McComas, Arthur - In 1943, McComas began working at Bendix Radio, starting in the test department then becoming a lab technician in microwave engineering. He was drafted into the Navy in about 1944, serving two years and participating in the electronic training Eddy program. McComas returned to Bendix after leaving the military and was re-hired as a junior engineer. During the course of his long career at Bendix, McComas was involved in many projects including ASR-3, SAGE, weather observation radar, ARIA, ATCRBS, MLS, Mark 15 and ADVENT, and became part of management. He was also active in the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA), serving on many special committees for U.S. National Aviation Standards. McComas retired from Bendix in 1986 and holds eight patents
McFarlan, Ronald - Began in academia, where he worked on the effects of X-rays on crystals, and later moved to the private sector, where he worked at United Drug, BB Chemical Co., Bulova Watch Co., and Raytheon. He later became the 1960 president of IRE
McGhee, Bob - worked on guided missiles, walking robots, and unmanned submarines, as well as various robotics projects, such as the phony pony and the bionic bug
McNaul, James - joined the Army Signal Corps as an engineer before joining the private sector. He served as the second president of the EMC Society, which he helped to found
McPherson, John - invited by Mr. Watson to join IBM. He was assigned to the Railroad Department as a trainee and got his own sales assignment in less than a year. McPherson started out in New York and was transferred to Philadelphia. When he came back to New York, he worked with the Railroad Group, whose goal was to provide statistics of the movement of freight and passengers. Before taking the position of Director, he worked on the Harvard Mark I, which IBM was encouraged in building by an instructor at Harvard, Professor Howard Aiken. In about 1940, McPherson worked with Aberdeen Proving Ground and introduced it IBM punched-card machines. After the war, IBM moved toward producing electronics, and McPherson participated in developing the 603, 604, 607 and SSEC. In 1948, McPherson was made a vice president, and from around 1960, he handled Systems Research Institute for five years as titular head. From 1966, he took interest in the APL business and focused on the job.
Mead, Nancy - IEEE Life Fellow, Mead spent a significant portion of her career as a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Federal Systems (1966-1990) in the development and management of large real-time systems, after leaving IBM, she spent nearly three decades (1990-2018) at the Software Engineering Institute and Carnegie Mellon University, as Principial Research and SEI Fellow (2013).
Mecklenbrauker, Wolfgang - received his engineering degree and PhD at the technical university in Aachen; he specialized in network theory, with relevance to filters and circuit theory. He started working at Philips in 1971, working on digital signal processing and digital filters with J. B. H. Peek and Dr. Claasen. Some of his particular work was on limit cycles, digital filters and data transmission, two-dimensional filtering, reactance frequency transformation, the transmultiplexer, transposition, and his discovery of the Wigner distribution. Ca. 1980 he went to the Technical University of Vienna
Meindl, James - IEEE Life Fellow, recipient of the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor for "For pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks", was Director and Pettit Chair Professor of the Joseph M. Pettit Microelectronic Research Center at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta developed micropower integrated circuits for portable military equipment at the U.S. Army Electronics Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. He then joined Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he developed low-power integrated circuits and sensors for a portable electronic reading aid for the blind, miniature wireless radio telemetry systems for biomedical research, and non-invasive ultrasonic imaging and blood-flow measurement systems. Dr. Meindl was the founding director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory and a founding co-director of the Center for Integrated Systems at Stanford. The latter was a model for university and industry cooperative research in microelectronics
Menzel, Mary Tsingou - Menzel worked in applied mathematics at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Among her contributions to defense research is her work on the “proton storage ring.”
Meren, Lou - Worked in Westinghouse management positions in the Power Generation Section, Equipment Design Engineering, Tactical Radars, the Surveillance Radar Division, Westinghouse Airships, and the CCCI&M Division. Projects he worked on include BOMARC, Deep Submergence Systems, FAA Scan Converter, ARSR-3/ARSR-4, Hawk Digital Processor, TPS-70 and NAAWS
Merrill, Edward - A pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering and faculty at MIT for 60 years. At MIT he launched biomedical engineering as a major focus of their chemical engineering department
Mersereau, Russell - His MIT doctoral work, on building multidimensional images from projections of two-dimensional objects, resulted in the dissertation, “The Reconstruction of Multidimensional Signals from their Projections.” As a post-doc, he wrote a Thompson Award-winning paper (1975) with Dan Dudgeon on multidimensional digital filter design. Dudgeon has tended to apply the work to sonar array processing, Merserau to medical imaging. Mersereau also collaborated with Wolfgang Mecklenbräuker and Tom Quatieri on multidimensional digital filters. At Georgia Tech, Mersereau co-wrote a textbook with Dan Dudgeon on two dimensional digital signal processing. As noted in this interview, Mersereau's research has included hexagonal sampling, iterative signal restoration algorithms, image restoration, image modeling, two-stage multirate coding of color images, and video coding. Mersereau also describes his mentorship of graduate students researching a variety of topics
Messerschmitt, David G. - IEEE Fellow, pioneer in the field of communications. His contributions include research on VLSI architecture for signal-processing problems, in particular its modeling and simulation in software, and the development of advanced software techniques, including Blosim and Ptolemy. Dr. Messerschmitt is currently the Roger A. Strauch Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, and he has written or co-authored several pioneering textbooks, most recently Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry with Clemens Szyperski (2003)
Metcalfe, Robert - A main contributor to the development of the internet and founder of 3Com
Middleton, David (2000) - worked at the Radio Research Laboratory at Harvard during World War II, working on radar counter-measures, passive and active jamming. This work flowed into work on communication theory, the study of the transfer of information, as statistically based applied physics. He did his graduate work at Harvard, then taught there, but in 1955 shifted to a career in consulting. His career has centered on noise and signal communication theory, including work lately on scattered channels and models of interference
Middleton, David (2007)
Millar, Julian Z. - pioneer in electronics and the chief architect of Telex, became fascinated by amateur radio as a boy in high school. He taught himself Morse code and purchased his first radio set in 1915. Millar graduated from the University of Illinois in 1923, and despite his interest in talking movies, took a position with Western Union. Millar spent his entire career with Western Union, interrupted only by his service with the Signal Corps during WWII. After the war, Millar resumed his duties with Western Union in their Radio Research Division. He became assistant vice president in 1952 and retired from Western Union in 1965
Mills, Judith - Mills worked as a programmer for Hepsworth’s the Tailors doing financial computing using COBOL. After teaching at Wakefield College, she joined General Electric as a systems developer
Milojicic, Dejan - IEEE Fellow, established researcher with a full career in industry, and is a long-term IEEE Computer Society volunteer. As a Computer Society Board of Governors member, he participated in developing the Computer Society 2011 Strategic Plan. He is the founding editor in chief of Computing Now and an IEEE Internet Computing editorial board member. He was appointed first Special Technical Communities chair, and served as past chair of the Computer Society Technical Committee on Operating Systems and on many program committees (ICDCS, CLOUD, and EDOC, among others). An IEEE-CS, ACM, and Usenix member for many years
Milstein, Laurence - had heavy involvement in IEEE’s Communications Society and Information Theory Society, worked at Hughes Aircraft (1968-74), RPI (1974-76), and UCSD (1976 to present). His research has largely been on spread spectrum communication and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). These technologies largely had military application (preventing jamming, hiding signals in noise) until about 1990, but have since acquired greater use in commercial wireless technology. CDMA is one of two digital cellular telephone technologies in widespread use in the United States. Milstein has largely been a theoretician
Minter, Jerry B. - helped to start Measurements Corporation in 1939. After the war, Minter and his company began working with television, including the Model 90 signal generator and later with developments in television color. He also became involved with connectors, and in the 1960s Minter worked on medical instrumentation which involved videotaping output from surgical microscopes. Minter has twenty-six patents, six of which are for recent work in aviation, another field he was involved in
Mintz, Max - worked in robotics at the CSL and the GRASP Lab, focusing on control theory and decision-making under uncertainty
Mitra, Sanjit - graduated with his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Utkal University in 1953. He then proceeded to the University of Calcutta, where he received his Master of Science degree in Radio Physics and Electronics in 1956. Moving to California to pursue more graduate work in computer engineering, Mitra earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He then spent brief periods of time working at Bell Labs before devoting himself to his present fruitful academic career. Mitra was an EE professor at Cornell University from 1962 to 1965, and then with the University of California, Davis before moving to his present career position at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Mitsui, Toshio - graduated in Physics at the Hokkaido University, under the guidance of Prof. Furuichi. His area of research was on domain observations in Rochelle Salt. His research continued at the Pennsylvania State University (1956) with Prof. Pepinsky, Dr. Jona, and Dr. Okaya. His main scientific interests were on crystal symmetry and structure, using neutron diffraction at Brookhaven. These were early days of ferroelectrics, with new compounds being discovered at a rapid pace, as extended at MIT with Profs. Von Hippel, Newnham, and Westphal. Upon his return to Hokkaido University, he published his seminal book on “The Introduction to the Physics of Ferroelectrics” and completed ferroelectric data for Landolt-Bӧrnstein. In 1969, he moved to Osaka University, leaving ferroelectrics for the exciting field of biophysics
Moll, John - during World War II, Moll joined the war effort by working at RCA on magnetrons for radar jamming. Moll returned to Ohio State University for his doctorate in electrical engineering, which he received in 1952. During his long career, Moll worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild, Hewlett Packard and taught at Stanford. He took part in both device fabrication and research, building upon his interest in semiconductors, and worked with junction transistors, integrated circuits, solid-state switches, crystals, silicon, MOS and gallium arsenide. Moll is also famous for the Ebers-Moll Equations and p-n-p-n switch theory
Molnar, Andrew R. - A pioneer in computer-assisted education, Andrew Molnar earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Maryland in 1959, after taking a year off from his studies in 1956 to work on the design team for the Pratt & Whitney J-75 turbojet engine. Following a brief period in which he developed command evaluation systems for System Development Corporation, Dr. Molnar joined the faculty of American University in 1961 as Professor of Research at the Center for Research and Social Systems. In 1966, he joined the U.S. Office of Education as Acting Director for Higher Education Research, where he oversaw the development of computer-assisted instruction technologies. Joining the National Science Foundation’s Office of Computing Activities (OCA) in 1970, Dr. Molnar helped direct the continued development of CAI technologies, the deployment of internetworking for higher education and the development of university curricula.
Mondada, Franceso - spent his career at the the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His work has led to at least two commercial successes: the Khepera robot for laboratory applicatons and the E-Puck for educational applications
Moore, Gordon Earl - IEEE Life Fellow, explains his involvement with the integrated circuit conception at Fairchild
Moose, Louis F. - Worked for the MIT Rad Lab magnetron group on X-band and/or 3-cm magnetron areas, and did application work for magnetrons and all X-band systems
Mori, Fusao - An electrical engineer who has worked in energy research and development
Morse, A. Stephen - From 1967 to 1970, he served a two year term of active duty (plus an additional year) with the Office of Control Theory (OCTA) at the NASA Electronics Research Center. After leaving the NASA lab in 1970, he came to Yale University where he is presently the Dudley Professor of Engineering. Morse served as a visiting scientist at the University of Toronto, as well as took part in several sabbaticals and leaves. including at Caltech, Australia, Osaka, and Florence
Morton, Pamela "Pam" - Morton started off as a civil servant, working as a researcher at the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, and a project leader at the Ministry of Technology. Her work as an educator at Greenwich University was recognized with the Peugeot/Talbot Council for Industry and Higher Education Partnership Award. While working in the Cabinet Office of the Women’s National Commission, she spearheaded a campaign to integrate women into scientific industries
Moura, José M. F. - 2019 IEEE President and IEEE Life Fellow, is the Philip L. and Marsha Dowd University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the U.S. National Academies Navy Study Board, corresponding member of Portugal Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of U.S. National Academy of Inventors, IEEE, and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Mueller, Charles W. - A pioneer in solid-state electronics, he worked in RCA's tube department
Müller‎, K. Alex - studied physics at the ETH Zürich and finished his thesis in 1960 in the group of Prof. Busch with a work on the double perovskite SrTiO3. This compound was intensively investigated by him, and he achieved major success with breakthrough discoveries in this field. The following two years he joined the Batelle Institute in Geneva working in spin resonance. Meanwhile the IBM research center in Rüschlikon was founded where he was offered a position as scientific member to explore the field of ferroelectricity where he performed brilliantly. During a two years residence at IBM in the United States he developed interest in superconductivity which he focused on in the following years. The Nobel Prize award in 1987 crowned this work but did not finalize his scientific activities which were centered on the exploration of its origin
Mulligan, James - 1971 IEEE President, Mulligan spent much of his career as a faculty member and chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at New York University. Mulligan played an important role in implementing the AIEE/IRE merger, and then as IEEE President, he worked to meet the professional and technical needs of members, such as working with other engineering society presidents on the issue of jobs and job training for unemployed engineers
Mumma, Robert - attended the electrical engineering program at Purdue for two years (1922-24), before deciding to leave and become a teacher. He received his teaching certificate from Otterbein College in Ohio, and taught high school in both Florida and Ohio. Mumma returned to work in the electronics field, however, after he received a tutorial from the head of the electrical engineering department at Miami University of Ohio in high frequency AC theory. He got a position at General Motors Radio, where he worked in Joe Desch’s department making test equipment. After that company folded, Mumma worked for police radio in Dayton, Frigidaire, and finally NCR, where he worked under Desch in the Electrical Research Department. He was involved in many projects there, including an electronic counter using gas thyratrons, tube design, standardized magnetic printing on bank checks, and magnetic tape. He sat on a committee that standardized characters. Mumma was also involved in the war effort at NCR, both under the NDRC and later the Navy which put the whole department onto the Ultra project in 1942
Muroga, Saburo - Developed minimum-gate design and the Transduction Method for logic-design automation
Murphy, Robin - Worked on disaster robots, dating from the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. Her robots were the first to be used for the emergency response phase of a disaster when the 9/11 World Trade Center attack
Murray, Richard - worked in robotics on manipulation and grasping, non-holonomic motion planning, and locomotion at CalTech
Musmann, Hans - received his Ph.D. in the communications field from the Technical University of Braunschweig. He has worked with tunnel diodes, microwaves, satellite communications, computer and facsimile transmission, and computer-generated images. After obtaining the doctorate, Musmann began focusing on facsimile transmission and source coding, digitizing facsimile images. In the1970s he participated in fax standardization, and also in reducing cost and time factors in fax transmission. Musmann then concentrated on satellite communication of video and audio signals, including the transmission of moving images. In 1972 he founded the Institute for High Frequency Science, which researched innovations in communications technologies, including video transmission techniques for satellites

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Nagle, Troy - 1994 IEEE President and an IEEE Life Fellow, is an academic who started out in digital signal processing at Auburn and later moved into biomedical engineering at North Carolina State. As IEEE President, he confronted a failed upgrade of the Institute’s computer systems and accepted the resignation of IEEE’s Executive Director
Nagpal, Radhika - known for her work in biologically inspired multi agent systems, including swarm robotics and bio inspired robot design, decentralized collective algorithms, and global to local abstraction as well as Biological Multi-Agent systems, including models of multicellular morphogenesis and collective insect behavior
Nakahara, Tsuneo - A communications engineer and long-time employee at Sumitomo Electric, where he served in several positions including as executive vice president
Nakajima, Heitaro - A communications engineer at Sony and NHK who worked on the development of digital audio recording and CD technology
Nakajima, Shigeru - Worked with magnetrons for communications and medical applications
Nebeker, Frederik - long-time Senior Research Historian at the IEEE History Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, his dissertation research formed the basis of his first book, Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century, which was published in 1995. Other books include From 0 to 1: An Authoritative History of Modern Computing edited,(2002) and Dawn of the Electronic Age: Electrical Technologies in the Shaping of the Modern World, 1914 to 1945 (2009).
Nelson, Brad - spent his career in robotics, focusing on control, manipulation, micro-positioning, and micro/nanorobotics, conducting research at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Illinois, Minnesota
Nicoud, Jean-Daniel - worked in robotics, moved from academia at Lausanne to form a private company (DIDEL)
Nieberding, John "Jack" - Worked in the Westinghouse software development section and was involved in many projects, including NASA Goddard contracts, AWACS and Peace Shield
Nilsson, Nils - IEEE Life Fellow, spent the first half of his career at SRI and the second half at Stanford. In both places, much of his work focused on Pattern Recognition and AI
Nishi, Kazuhiko - started his own company, ASCII Publishing Corporation in 1977 (now ASCII Corporation)
Nishitani, Takao - IEEE Fellow, produced pioneering DSP (digital signal processing) and ADPCM (Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation) technology as an employee at NEC during the 1970s and 1980s. The DSP chip he developed revolutionized microprocessing and the computer industry in the 1980s and 1990s. As professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University, IEEE volunteer, and leader in the Signal Processing Society Tokyo Chapter, Professor Dr. Takao Nishitani has bridged the academy and industry to promote industrial signal processing research
Noll, A. Michael - Professor Emeritus of Communication and former Dean at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. Before joining the Annenberg School in 1984, Noll had a varied career in basic research, telecommunication marketing, and science policy. In addition, he is an early pioneer in the use of digital computers in the visual arts. In the early 1970s, Noll spent two years in Washington as a Technical Assistant to the President's Science Advisor at the White House. From 1977 to 1984, he worked in the AT&T Consumer Products and Marketing Department and he spent nearly fifteen years performing basic research at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey (1961-1975).
Nourbakhsh, Illah - worked in robotics, focusing on artificial intelligence and planning, and was involved with the Book Store Project and the automated highway system project
Noyce, Robert N. - After getting his degree from MIT, he started working with Bill Shockley and later established Fairchild with several people from Shockley. He was a physicist at Fairchild when the concept of the integrated circuit was conceived.
Nunnally, Herb - Began in the Westinghouse Field Engineering and Services Department and became marketing manager of FE&S and then for the Communications Division. He worked on various projects such as Orbiting Astronomical Observatory (OAO), Communications Technology Satellite and teleconferencing

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Oh, Jun Ho - worked in industrial automation and his research on control and humanoid robots
Ohl, Russel S. - A graduate of Pennsylvania State College, Ohl enlisted in the Army during World War I and conducted license service tests for military aircraft radios. After the war, he continued electrical research in batteries and vacuum tubes. He went to work for the AT&T Company and then for its subsidiary Bell Laboratories, building unipotential tubes and a new portable radio receiver. His subsequent projects were in quartz crystal research, high frequency control, interference reduction, and building semiconductors.
Okamura, Allison - worked in robotics, focusing on manipulation, planning, and sensory feedback and haptics
Okoshi, Takanori - A communications engineer who has worked on projects in optoelectronics and holography, planar circuits, and optical fiber communication
Olson, Harry F. - Known for his contributions to musical sound reproduction, he worked in acoustic research at RCA for 40 years
Oman, Henry - worked with Allis Chalmers on the propulsion machinery for submarines and Destroyer Escorts during the war, received a Master’s degree at Oregon State University while working at Boeing on the changing of the fusible resistance link point-by-point as it approached melting temperatures, limiters, and did graduate work at Illinois Tech. He was fundamental in establishing the Power Electronics Society, which has been responsible for the power electronics now all over airplanes. This society grew out of Oman’s initiative to form a conference to discuss the creation of an inverter that would make a.c. out of d.c. with solid-state parts. He also played a role in forming the Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference. Oman also worked on B-52 bombers and atomic-powered airplane, the Rail Garrison Peacekeeper, tested electromagnetic radiation emitted from transmission lines, was the secretary of the Engineering Society of Milwaukee and editor of Milwaukee Engineering, wrote for the Advanced Battery Technology magazine, and worked on battery-powered electric bicycles
O'Neal, Russell D. - Worked for the MIT Rad Lab test equipment group on X-band radar, oscilloscopes, and microwave corner reflectors
O'Neil, Thomas J. - joined Cleveland-Cliffs in November of 1991 as Senior Vice President-Technical with responsibility for Cliffs' research, engineering, and technical support for business development. In November of 1994, he was named Executive Vice President-CCI Operations and Technology with responsibility for Northshore Mining Company in Minnesota and corporate-wide technical and related services. From 2000 until his retirement in 2003, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Cleveland-Cliffs Inc and also as President of The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company and Cliffs Mining Company
O'Neill, Eugene - received his bachelors in engineering in 1940 and his masters of electrical engineering in 1941, both from Columbia University. He then worked at Bell Labs for the rest of his career. During World War II he worked on airborne radar systems. After the war he worked on the L-3 coaxial system until the early 1950s. He then worked on microwave radio systems; transoceanic submarine cables in the mid 1950s the time-assignment speech interpolation terminal system (TASI) in the late 1950s, which increased capacity by using high-speed switching to use a channel only when a person is talking; and the Telstar project, an early communications satellite, in the early 1960s
Onural, Levent - Dr. Onural joined IEEE while in Buffalo and created the IEEE Turkey Section in 1989, shortly after returning to Turkey. He served as director of IEEE Region 8, which is comprised of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, from 2001 through 2002. In 2005, he was the first person from outside of North America to be nominated to run for IEEE President, although he did not win the election. Dr. Onural is currently Professor and Dean of Engineering at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, where he has taught since 1987.
Oppenheim, Alan - IEEE Life Fellow, his principal research interests have been in the field of digital signal processing have focused on nonlinear dynamics and chaotic signals; speech, image, and acoustic signal processing; and knowledge-based signal processing
Ortega, Vincente - went into telecommunications engineering and got his degree from Madrid in 1967, along with a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Stanford in 1969, conducted research on microwave electronics, particularly integrated circuits for radio receivers and radio transmitters
Osborne, Basil - joined the Radio Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, in 1947, working on the electron content of the ionosphere, setting up an out-station at Singapore in 1948, and publishing papers on subjects including the disintegration of the equatorial F region after sunset. He continued ionospheric research from 1952 to 1954 as a Lecturer in physics at the University of Malaya. In 1954 he joined Ultra Electric, and published papers on color television chrominance circuits; and was later with J. H. Owen Harries in Bermuda, working on color television projection displays.

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Pal, Yash - born in 1926 in Jhang, in modern-day Pakistan. His studies at the Lahore campus at the University of the Punjab were interrupted due to partition, and he earned his MSc degree in physics from the reconstituted Delhi campus of Panjab University in 1949, and later earned a Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Much his career was spent at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, where he was a member of the Cosmic Rays group
Palshoj, Jorgen - educated in Copenhagen, Denmark, Jorgen Palshøj accumulated experiences by working with Lego. He started his career at Bang and Olufsen as advertising manager in 1965. In the company, Palshøj took responsibility for international advertising and was involved in product and graphic design. Currently, he is Director of Corporate Identity at Bang and Olufsen, and he coordinates the communication and design in the company
Pape, John - served on the staff of the IEEE Communications Society for more than eighteen years, retiring as Director of Marketing and Creative Services. His publications and marketing career included working for Springer Verlag, Methuen Publishing Ltd., S. Karger, and the American Society of Civil Engineers
Pappas, George - worked in robotics at RPI and UC Berkeley
Parker, Alice C. - IEEE Fellow “for contributions to design automation in the areas of high-level synthesis, hardware descriptive languages, and design representation.”
Parker, Lynne - a faculty member at the University of Tennessee, served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Assistant Director of Artificial Intelligence
Parkinson, Brad - Marconi Fellow and an IEEE Life Fellow, was program manager of what would become the Global Positioning System
Parks, Tom - majored in electrical engineering for his bachelors at Cornell, and while there he worked at the Cornell Aeronautical Lab in Buffalo on magnetic amplifiers and designing circuits, developing an early interest in analog signal processing. Parks went to GE in Ithaca to work on telemetry, and later returned to Cornell for his masters and PhD working with Hans Schuessler and Jim Thorpe. After graduation, he was hired at Rice University and while there he began studying digital filters. His interest in number theory transforms came with a stint at the Lincoln Labs under Ben Gold in 1973, while in the 1980s Parks did consulting work for the Schlumberger in Houston where he became acquainted with acoustic well logging and associated signal processing. He returned to Cornell to teach in 1986, where he continued his work from his time at Rice on time frequency analysis, but also work on multi-rate systems
Paté-Cornell, Elisabeth - After completing her degrees, she accepted a faculty position at MIT in the Department of Civil Engineering, where she initiated several research projects on risk analysis and seismic engineering and activity. She later returned to Stanford University in 1981 to be an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) before becoming Professor in 1991 and the Department Chair in 1997. She also accepted a visiting professor position at Georgia Institute of Technology during her sabbatical year, and one at New York University in the Department of Finance and Risk Analysis. Currently she holds the position of Professor andformer department Chair (from 2000-2011), of the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She is also Senior Fellow of the Stanford for International Studies.
Patel, Kumar - grew up in India, where he received his B.E. in telecommunications from the College of Engineering in Poona, India in 1958. He then was accepted to Stanford University, where he received his engineering masters degree and Ph.D. in 1959 and 1961, respectively. In 1988 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in acknowledgment of his pioneering career. After completing his doctorate degree, Patel joined Bell Laboratories, where he made numerous seminal contributions in many fields, including nonlinear optics, gas lasers, molecular spectroscopy, laser surgery, and pollution detection. His experiments with the carbon dioxide laser led directly to that laser's use in industrial applications, scientific applications developing newer laser technology, medical applications such as gynecological surgery and tumor removal, and remote probing applications such as Doppler radar, pollution gauging, and military uses
Paulraj, Arogyaswami - Developed multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) antenna technologies for wireless communications
Payton, Fay Cobb - Professor (with Tenure) of Information Technology/Analytics at North Carolina State University and was named a University Faculty Scholar for her leadership in turning research into solutions to society’s most pressing issues. She is on rotation as a Program Director at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Division of Computer and Network Systems
Pedersen, Aage - IEEE Fellow, in 1949 Pedersen took a study tour of Holland and England, and won a two-year scholarship to the University of Liverpool, where he studied electrical discharges with high voltage equipment. In 1953 he returned to Denmark and taught at the Technical University. In 1956 Pedersen went to work for the English Electrical Company, which was then England's largest manufacturer of power equipment, and oversaw high voltage transformer testing. Pedersen then accepted a job offer from ASEA, and moved to Sweden to work on rotating high voltage machines and research epoxy insulation of generator windings. In 1961 he returned to the Technical University in Copenhagen to teach applications of physics to power engineering, and continued consulting for ASEA
Pedersen, Gunnar - in Denmark, he worked for the Telegraph Administration and built short wave radio transmitter which would connect Denmark and the United States. Pederson became Bureau Chief in the General Directory in 1942. After World War II, he became involved in many international activities, including his participation in the 1947 conference in Atlantic City and the ’48-’49 Mexico City conference. In 1954, Pedersen became the Technical Director for the Post and Telegraph Service of Denmark, which was involved in all the public radio stations. As a radio expert, he ran the technical side for Denmark Radio and took charge of the studio engineering for radio broadcasting. From 1960 to 1975, he served as General Director of the Post and Telegraph Service
Penzias, Arno - Although his primary work has always been in research and management at Bell Labs, he has held appointments at Princeton, Harvard College Observatory, and Stony Brook. He was hired by Bell in 1961, became a radiophysics department head in 1972, and was named director of the Radio Research Laboratory in 1976. With coworker Robert Wilson, he won the 1978 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the background radiation of the universe. At the time of this interview in 1980, Penzias was Executive Director of Bell Labs
Peppas, Nicholas - A chemical and biomedical engineer who has taught at Purdue University and the University of Texas at Austin and is a leading researcher in biomaterials and delivery
Petritz, Richard - In 1949, he worked briefly with his advisor Arnold Segert at Los Alamos. In 1950, he became a professor of engineering at Catholic University in Washington, DC. He left CUA in 1958 to become a research director at Texas Instruments in Dallas. After ten years at TI, he left and formed a venture capital group called New Business Resources that focused on businesses in the semiconductor industry. NBR founded Mostek, among others; Petritz served as first president of Mostek. After NBR disbanded, Petritz went on to form NMOS, jointly owned by the British government and the private sector. After Thorn-EMI bought out Britain's share, he helped form Simtek, which specializes in high-end memory chips
Pfeifer, Rolf - worked in artificial intelligence, locomotion, cognitive robots and AI and bio-robotics
Pickholtz, Raymond - worked at RCA on color TV receiver design (1954-57); worked at ITT Laboratories on spread spectrum radio systems for aerospace applications (1957-61); returned to graduate school at Brooklyn Polytechnic (1961-66); taught at Brooklyn Polytechnic (1966-72); consulted at IBM starting ca. 1967-68; taught at George Washington University (1972-). His research has been in data networking; modems; satellite communications; spread spectrum; spread spectrum multiple access/code division multiple access; fading channels; scattering; frequency hopping; and developments in digital radio (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing)
Pierce, John (Part 1) - Made many important contributions to microwave and communications technology, including in microwave electron tubes and communications satellites
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Plante, Kenneth - Worked as a Westinghouse engineering manager and then chief engineer for the Electronic Warfare Division. Projects he worked on include B70, ULCER, Pod programs, RWRs and ALQ-165
Pollard, Ernest - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab indicator's group and on the Steering Committee and was able to convince the Navy that navigational microwave radar was possible
Poloujadoff, Michel - French electrical engineer who was instrumental in the establishment of electrical engineering programs in France, Tunisia and Egypt. He spent a one-year fellowship at Harvard where he worked on the Aiken computer, returned to France to complete his doctorate. After serving in the French Air Force he commenced a lengthy teaching career at the University of Grenoble
Pound, Robert - A MIT Rad Lab section chief of microwave mixers and converters in the RF group who developed broadband stub support for coaxial transmission lines
Pourcelot, Léandre George - began his professional career in 1963 as a researcher at INSA, Lyon, where he developed the first European ultrasonic Doppler velocimeter. In 1968, he joined the Faculty of Medicine in Tours, France, where he was assistant, associate, and then full Professor. He also was director of the Group of Public interest GIP “Ultrasound” and of the INSERM research Unit 316, co-founded several industrial companies, as well as the French Society for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (1972) www.sfaumb.fr, the French Doppler Club (1975) and more recently (2004) the Planiol Foundation
Proakis, John - IEEE Life Fellow, is emeritus and Research Professor at Northeastern University and his research is in the areas of digital communications and digital signal processing
Proebster, Walter - educated in at the Technical University in Munich. After completing his Ph.D., Proebster went to work for the IBM Research Laboratory in Zurich. From 1962 to 1964 he was director at the research laboratory in Yorktown as Director of Experimental Machines. He then became head and later director of the IBM Development Laboratories of Germany in Böblingen. At the time of the interview, Proebster was Extraordinaius Professor at the Technical University in Munich teaching computer science
Pugh, Emerson W. - 1989 IEEE President, and worked for IBM for twenty-five years in the following positions: research scientist, product development manager, and corporate executive
Purcell, Edward - Worked on MIT Rad Lab RF and systems research and on a counter-mortar radar and was head of the Fundamental Developments group

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Rabiner, Lawrence - "co-op" at Bell Labs at Whippany and Murray Hill, N.J. between 1962 and 1964, where he worked on digital circuitry, military communications, and the study of binaural hearing. He subsequently became a regular staff member of the Laboratories. His Ph.D. thesis and some of his early work at Bell Laboratories was in the field of speech synthesis and since 1967 he has worked on digital filter design, spectrum analysis, implementation of digital systems, random number generators, and other aspects of signal processing.
Rader, Charles - IEEE Fellow, accepted a position at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory in 1961, where he has been since that time. He began his early forays in electrical engineering through his early interest in artificial intelligence and speech processing. Overall, his research has focused on speech bandwidth compression digital signal processing, and space-based radar systems. One of his major accomplishments was as a leader of the team that helped build the LES-8 and LES-9 communications satellites launched in 1976.
Rajchman, Jan - Did extensive work on computer memory and was involved in Project Lightning. He was also the director of RCA's computer research laboratory.
Rambo, William - An electrical engineer who served as a director of Stanford Electronics Laboratories and as Associate Dean of Engineering.
Ramo, Simon - In 1936, he took a job at General Electric in Schenectady, NY to work in the new field of microwaves, first in the engineering lab and then in the GE research lab. While at GE he taught a series of courses on electricity and magnetism theory. Out of these lectures came his textbook, Fields and Waves, now in its fifth edition. During the war, he worked on radar. After the war, he moved to Hughes Aircraft where he worked on guided missile systems.
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Ramsey, Norman F. (1991) - worked on magnetrons under Rabi at the MIT Rad Lab and on developing hardware suitable for X-band or 3 cm radar in the advanced development group.
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Rao, C.R. - IEEE Life Fellow, is a mathematician, statistician, and professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University and Research Professor at the University at Buffalo. He spent more than forty years at the Research and Training School at the Indian Statistical Institute, and he discovered the Cramér–Rao bound and the Rao–Blackwell theorem.
Raphael, Bertram - Known for his contributions to artificial intelligence, including inventing the A* Search Algorithm and contributing to the development of Shakey the Robot
Ratner, Buddy - Researcher at the University of Washington who focused on topics involving blood compatibility with biomaterials
Read, Wally - 1996 IEEE President, Read, a power engineer and former president of the Canadian Electrical Association, was the second of three IEEE Presidents from Canada. In the 1980s, Read was responsible for two of the first three IEEE Milestones recognizing events in his native Newfoundland. As IEEE President, he pursued the dual goals of increasing international membership and achieving greater recognition for IEEE members from industry
Rechtin, Eberhardt - systems engineer whose communications and systems architecting skills have been focused on deep space and national security applications throughout his career. While doing his doctoral work, Rechtin worked on ballistic missile and communications technology at JPL and developed an integrated, coded phase lock system in 1957-1958. In 1967 he became director of the Advance Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and significantly changed its funding patterns while redefining its operations and defending its existence during the Vietnam War. After becoming Assistant Secretary of Defense for Telecommunications, Rechtin brought his communications and systems experience to Hewlett-Packard in 1973 and helped manage their development of "smart systems." In 1977 Rechtin became president and CEO of the Aerospace Corporation, where he worked to move Aerospace into the satellite mission business. As president and CEO, Rechtin identified himself as Aerospace's chief architect and strategist and, through his applications of systems architecting, shaped Aerospace's research and funding operations and improved the company's reputation significantly. Finally, in 1987 Rechtin became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Southern California
Rediker, Robert - career was largely at MIT, at its Lincoln Lab and as a regular professor. His research was on circuits, transistor circuits, transistors, gallium-arsenide transistors (he patented the first p-n junction in gallium arsenide), and semiconductor lasers. His research was very important for LEDs, transmitting TV by laser, the technology behind CDs. He retired in 1991, worked for a medical laser company until 2000, doing imaging to detect prostate and breast cancer, and finally retired in 2000.
Reid, John M. - Known as a pioneer of biomedical ultrasound imaging. He also a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a teacher at Drexel University
Reisman, Sorel - directed the international, higher education consortium, Merlot, and is a professor emeritus of information systems at California State University, Fullerton. He has held management positions at IBM, Toshiba, and EMI. He is an IEEE senior member and served as the vice president in charge of the Computer Society Publications Board. Reisman has served as vice president of the Electronic Products and Services Board and as a member of the Transformation and Planning and Membership Committees
Remshardt, Rolf - earned a Diplom-Ingenieur degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technical University in Stuttgart, Germany. He began working as a Development Engineer, designing integrated circuits and semiconductor chips, for IBM Germany in 1967. During his nearly thirty years with the firm, Remshardt held several development and management positions
Rench, Carl - Rench, Bob Mumma, and Joe Desch worked with each other in a variety of engineering, research, and management roles in the next several decades. Desch was not much present the first few years: his work on the Bombe project during World War II had led him to a nervous breakdown (both from the innate strains of the work and from the particular hassles of dealing with one Navy Captain Ralph Meader). Desch did not ever again seek out positions with high management responsibility, perhaps to avoid another nervous breakdown. Rench and Desch worked together in NCR’s attempts to design a programmable electronic accounting machine. Desch was influential in trying to steer NCR towards computer research—failing to get them to do their own research in the 1940s, succeeding in getting them to buy Computer Research Corporation (CRC) in the 1950s, and eventually in getting them to realize that CRC technology was not up to snuff, and that they would have to use other companies’ computers for some NCR devices. Desch was influential in NCR strategic decisions until ca. 1960, when Bob Chollar, whom Desch did not much care for, took over. Desch then withdrew from his strategic advisor role, though he continued to act as a mentor and advisor to Rench as he made the transition into management roles. In the 1960s Desch did continuing research, establishing an NCR leadership role in thermal printers
Riener, Robert - worked in robotics, with a focus on simulation and control, medical applications, and prosthetics
Ries, Heidi - Following completion of her M.S., she began teaching at Norfolk State University, where she helped organize school-wide assessment plans, establish the Center for Materials Research, and develop the Graduate science program. Leaving Norfolk State for the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), Ries began her current role as Dean for Research, managing and facilitating faculty work, and establishing new research centers. She served briefly as Interim Dean for the Graduate School of Engineering and Management, earning her the 2013 Air Force Exemplary Civilian Service Award
Robertson, Randal - Worked on Luis Alvarez’s bombing systems and later edited a volume of the MIT Rad Lab technical series
Robinson, Denis M. - Worked as the British liaison at the MIT Rad Lab
Robinson, Enders - From 1952 to 1954, Dr. Robinson was director of the MIT Geophysical Analysis Group and he developed the first digital signal filtering methods to process seismic records used in oil exploration. The available computer, the MIT Whirlwind digital computer, was not powerful enough to make this research work commercially feasible at the time. Professor Norbert Wiener of MIT took an active interest in this work which represented the first successful application of his recently developed theory of prediction and filtering of time series. In 1954, Dr. Robinson received his Ph.D. in geophysics from MIT. He then worked in the oil industry both as a geophysicist and as an economist In 1958, Dr. Robinson joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where he became acting director of the computer science department. In 1960, the University of Wisconsin granted a fellowship to Dr. Robinson to work in Uppsala, Sweden under Professor Herman Wold and Professor Harold Cramer, earlier developers of time series analysis. Dr. Robinson stayed in Sweden from 1960 to 1964 as Deputy Professor of Statistics at Uppsala University. With the advent of transistorized computers in the 1960s, digital methods became economically feasible for use in oil exploration. In 1965, six geophysicists and Dr. Robinson formed Digicon Inc. which was one of the first companies to process seismic records by computers. From 1970 to 1983, Dr. Robinson divided his time between the oil exploration industry and universities
Rochester, Nathaniel - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab RF components group and was in charge of diodes
Rohde, Ulrich - attended universities of Munich and Darmstadt, studying electrical engineering and radio communications, and received a PhD in electrical engineering (1978), an Sc.D. (hon., 1979) in radio communications, Dr.-Ing. Degree from the University in Berlin (2004), and Dr.-Ing. habil. degree from the University of Cottbus (2011). He is Chairman of Synergy Microwave Corp., and President of Communications Consulting Corp
Rollefson, Ragnar - Worked in MIT Rad Lab R&D on anti-jamming/countermeasures and on what became the Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AEWACS). He later served as the Army Chief Scientist
Rollman, Richard - went to Iowa State for his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Masters in Spectral Radiometric Response. He worked at the Radiation Laboratory during World War II, the moved to Dumont Laboratories after World War II. There he worked on TV, TV cameras, and the development of quality control for TV mechanical parts and electronics. With Scott Hill and Jerry Steen, he was a leading figure in getting the IRE Group on Reliability formed. He later consulted for the Pentagon, and ended his career working for Bell Labs in the field of transmission engineering. At Bell he also dealt with quality control issues, particularly in the switching system
Rosen, Harold - moved the to the California Institute of Technology for graduate school, while he worked part-time for Raytheon, working on anti-aircraft guided missiles and radars. In 1956 Rosen completed his PhD atook a position at Hughes Aircraft. After the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957 Rosen became involved in the Geosynchronous Communication Satellite Program, a career that lasted from 1959, until his retirement 1993
Rosen, Paul - graduate of Tufts University, was head of the ground equipment satellite group at Lincoln Laboratory. While at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory (AFCRL), which later became Lincoln Laboratory, he worked on the SAGE (Semi Automatic Ground Environment) program. He also designed a modem that depended on amplitude alone, which was adopted by Bell Labs
Rosenfeld, Azriel - pioneer in the field of signal processing and Computer Vision as well as a founder in the field of Digital Geometry. A self-described theoretician, Rosenfeld originally specialized in the field of physics before changing emphasis to concentrate on discrete mathematics. At the University of Pittsburgh he was on the committee that initially designed degree programs in computer science and was the first professor in the university to teach courses on pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and image processing
Ross, Ian - President Emeritus of the Bell Laboratories. He joined Bell Labs in 1952 becoming involved in the development of a wide variety of semiconductor devices. In 1959, he became Director of the semiconductor laboratory at Murray Hill, New Jersey, and three years later was named Director of the Semiconductor Device and Electron Tube Laboratory in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1964, he was appointed Managing Director of Bellcom, a Bell Systems subsidiary that was formed to provide systemes engineering to NASA's Project Apollo (manned flight to the moon.) He became President of Bellcom in 1968. In 1971 he returned to Bell Labs as Executive Director of the Network Planning Division and was promoted to Bell Labs Vice President in 1973, Executive Vice President in 1976 and President in 1979. He retired in 1992. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 1973, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1982, the Engineering Academy of Japan in 1988 and the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1990.
Roth, Bernie - worked in robotics on force control manipulation, and at Stanford University
Rowell‎‎, John M. - joined Bell Laboratories in 1961 after carrying out his graduate studies at Oxford University, Oxford, England. With P. W. Anderson, he made the first observation of the Josephson effect and demonstrated the magnetic field sensitivity of the Josephson current. He held the first patent granted for logic applications of the Josephson effect. With W. L. McMillan, he developed tunneling spectroscopy, which determines in detail the electron-phonon interaction that causes superconductivity, at least in the low-Tc materials. In a collaboration with J. Geerk, M. Gurvitch, and M. Washington, he invented the niobium/aluminum Josephson junction process that is now the basis of all low-Tc digital electronics and magnetic sensors. He held a series of management positions at Bell Laboratories and in 1983 he joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) as Assistant Vice President of the Solid State Science and Technology Laboratory. He joined Conductus, a start-up superconducting electronics company, in 1989 as Chief Technical Officer
Royden, George T. - pioneer in wireless communication, received his degree from Stanford University. While attending Stanford, Royden worked part-time at Federal Telegraph. He took a full-time position with Federal upon graduation. At the end of WWI, he took a position with the Navy at Mare Island
Ruoff, Carl - worked in robotics research at Caltech and JPL and was involved in projects such as the Sojourner rover
Russell, Reginald - the focus of this interview is Russell's tenure as IEEE Region 8 Director. Russell held the office in 1973 and 1974. He starts by telling how he came to be Director, explaining that he became involved in Region 8 affairs as a representative of the UKRI Section. In the remainder of this interview, he talks about his experiences as Director. Russell concentrated on membership east of the Iron Curtain during his term, and he discusses his efforts to expand IEEE activity in the Communist countries at length. Here he shares memories of his trips to the Soviet Union and Poland in these years. He also speaks about chairing the Region 8 Committee and serving on the IEEE Board of Directors
Ryder, John Douglass - Served as the head of the electrical engineering department at the University of Illinois and as the Dean of Michigan State University. He was also the IRE president in 1955 and was the first editor of Spectrum
Rypinski, Chandos - Rypinski's early love of amateur radio and experimenting with radio equipment determined the rest of his pathbreaking career. A graduate of Cal Tech, Rypinski contributed a great deal to the U.S. military effort throughout World War II, especially with his work in radar. Rypinski learned and taught others to operate and maintain the 584 anti-aircraft radar, and prepared synchronized plotting boards to calculate enemy flight trajectories. These inventions helped achieve U.S. successes in the Iwo Jima and Okinawa military campaigns

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Saad, Theodore - Began in the MIT Rad Lab theoretical division and switched to the microwave components division
Saba, Shoichi - President and chief executive of Toshiba
Saby, John - worked at the GE Electronics lab on semiconductors and transistors, and was involved in the effort to make a commercially manufacturable transistor. In 1956 he transferred to the Lamp Research Lab, and worked there until his retirement in 1982, in research and administrative positions
Sachs, Murray - Founding Director of the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute whose primary research area is the neural processing of speech
Salisbury, Ken - worked on robotics projects, such as the Stanford (Salisbury) Hand and Barrett arm
Sammet, Jean - Designer of COBOL, FORMAC, and first woman president of the ACM
Sandretto, Peter - graduated from Purdue University in 1930 and worked for Bell Labs in aviation radio from 1930 to 1932. In 1932, he left Bell Labs for a position with United Airlines, where he worked until 1942. He was commissioned into the Air Force in 1942, where he was assigned as assistant chief of the radar division. Near the end of the war, Sandretto was assigned as countermeasures officer to the Seventh Air Force in the Pacific. After the war, he became director of Aviation for International Communications Labs
Sasaki, Tadashi - Has led major accomplishments in the miniaturization and power optimization of small electronics, making the commercialization of liquid crystal display (LCD) technology possible
Saunders, Robert - 1977 IEEE President, Saunders spent his career at the University of California, first at Berkeley and then at Irvine. First as head of the IEEE Educational Activities Board, and later as IEEE President, he advocated IEEE activities in continuing education.
Schaal, Stefan - worked in robotics at MIT and with the ERATO project in Japan
Schafer, Ron - one of the first engineers to work with digital signal processing and his theories expanded the concept and applications of the cepstrum beyond the original work done by Tukey and Bogert. Schafer was later recruited by Bell Laboratories where he worked on the application of homomorphic signal processing ideas to the problem of Format Analysis in speech. Schafer's Digital Signal Processing collaboration with Alan Oppenheim was published in 1975
Scharf, Louis - coauthored the books, Statistical Signal Processing: Detection, Estimation, and Time Series Analysis, Addison-Wesley, 1991, Statistical Signal Processing of Complex-Valued Data: The Theory of Improper and Noncircular Signals, Cambridge University Press, 2010. His coauthored book, A First Course in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1990, was republished by Connexions in 2008
Scheinman, Victor - a leader in the research, development, and industrial applications of robotic arms
Scherer, Harold - spent his career working in engineering and management positions at several electric utility companies, including Public Service Electric in New Jersey, American Electric, and Commonwealth Electric in Massachusetts
Schilling, Donald - Professor of electrical engineering at Brooklyn Poly until 1969, professor at City College of New York, 1970-1992, then worked full-time at his company, SCS, until 1996, when he founded a new company, Golden Bridge Technologies
Schips, Kurt - joined Bosch, where his father worked, in 1952. While working on an additional degree in economics, Schips rose through Bosch ranks, starting first as a patent attorney and eventually serving as a senior executive vice president on the management board
Schleimann-Jensen, Johan - awarded his first patent in 1926 and received two patents for advances in radio tube design in 1935. An attempt to finance his own tube factory led him first to Sweden and then to America in 1936, where he worked for Sylvania until 1939. He returned to Sweden to start a tube factory for Ericsson in 1939 and continued in that factory until 1948, becoming managing director in 1945. From 1949 to 1959 he headed his own small research lab with a focus on tubes for military applications. In 1959 he went back to work for Sylvania at Mountain View, CA, and remained there until 1964. He then worked on surge arrestors for Svensk Electronar
Schreiber, William F. - went to work for Technicolor corporation where he was contracted to build a television-based simulator that could be used for printing color film. Following his years at Technicolor, he moved to MIT as an associate professor where he remained until he retired. Honored as a Bernard Gordon professor, he attempted to introduce practicality to MIT’s science-based curriculum
Schroeder, Manfred - received his Vordiplom in mathematics and his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Goettingen in 1951 and 1954, respectively. In 1954 he went to work for Bell Labs, where he researched microwave and acoustic relationships and focused on speech acoustics. Schroeder built speech synthesizers, experimented with bandwidth compression and adaptive predictive coding of speech for telephone communications systems. In 1963 he became Bell Labs' Director of Acoustics and Speech Research, and in 1969 he accepted a full professorship in physics at the University of Goettingen, where he spent half his time and shared the other half with Bell Labs
Schuessler, Hans Wilhelm - IEEE Fellow, General Chairman of the first conference on Signal Processing in Germany, organized for the NTG in 1973, the 2nd European Signal Processing Conference (EURASIP) in 1983 and the International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and Electronics (URSI) in 1989, all in Erlangen
Schwan, Herman (1992) - Helped build the institutional basis in several organizations for biomedical engineering and was a winner of the IEEE Edison Medal
Schwan, Herman (1999)
Schwartz, Mischa - professor at Brooklyn Poly from 1953 to 1973 (head of the EE department 1961-66, established a telecommunications group there, and since then has been a professor at Columbia (helping found the Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR) in 1985, and serving as hits director until 1988). His research included coincidence detection and sequential detection through the mid-1960s; then, with the development of SABRE, SAGE, and ARPANet, he switched focus to computer networks, particularly performance analysis and queuing theory. He worked on setting standards for networks with the CCITT, CCIR, ISO, and NRC. He has been involved with the IEEE and its Information Theory Group and Communication Society for much of his career, including stints as president of the Communication Society
Schwartz, Richard - aerospace engineer and executive who played a pioneering role in the development of Navstar GPS, the satellite-based navigation system
Scott, Catherine - Worked as a secretary for Kenneth Bainbridge and later for Glen Giddings in the Directors Office of the MIT Rad Lab
Scott, James F. - After six years in the Quantum Electronics Research Department at Bell Labs he was appointed professor of physics at Univ. Colorado (Boulder), where he also served as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research. He was Dean of Science and Professor of Physics for eight years in Australia (UNSW, Sydney, and RMIT, Melbourne), Professor of Ferroics in the Physics Department at Cambridge University, and since 2015 Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Univ. St. Andrews
Seaborn, True H. - H. True Seaborn’s tenure as an IEEE Computer Society senior staff member began in the summer of 1973, when he succeeded John Kirkley as editor and publisher of Computer magazine. Seaborn played key roles in launching IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications and IEEE Micro magazines in 1981, followed by IEEE Design & Test of Computers and IEEE Software in 1984, and finally IEEE Expert (now called IEEE Intelligent Systems) in 1986.
Sears, Ray - communications engineer best known for his invention of the coding tube and barrier grid storage tube at Bell Labs
Seely, Samuel - Worked as a project manager of the SCR-582 at the MIT Rad Lab, as head of a mission to Australia and as the person who prepared the Hansen lectures for print
Seifert, Franz - mentored numerous doctoral and habilitation students to become leaders in industry and academia in the field of electronics engineering, especially in the areas of (i) spread spectrum techniques, (ii) surface acoustic wave devices and their applications, and (iii) numerical modeling of fields and waves
Seo, Jung Uk - Seo joined the new Agency for Defense Development. After thirteen years with this agency, Seo taught as a professor at Seoul National University professor before accepting a governmental appointment on the digital switching system development project. At the Korean Telecommunications Agency, Seo managed Time Division Exchange and emphasized quality assurance and quality management. In the early 1990s Seo served a two year appointment as a Vice Minister of Science and Technology, followed by a government appointment as president of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Severin, Hans - senior professor and researcher specializing in microwave physics at Ruhr University-Bochum in Germany. A graduate of the University of Goettingen, Severin served on the faculty there from 1943 to 1957, with a brief interruption in 1955-1956, when he accepted a one-year research position at RCA Laboratories in Princeton New Jersey. Severin headed up the microwave department of Philips Research Labs in Hamburg between 1956 and 1965 and served as professor of physics at the University of Hamburg in 1960. Severin left Phillips and Hamburg 1965, when he was appointed to the engineering faculty at Ruhr University-Bochum. He served as director of the university's Institute of High Frequency and Microwave Technique until his retirement in 1985
Shanesy, Carol - Shanesy got her start as a researcher for IBM, leaving briefly to work at Rand Corporation on programming projects for the New York City Fire Department. Shanesy returned to IBM as a Systems Engineer in their Public Sector, continuing her municipal programming work for New York City
Shannon, Claude E. - pioneer in information theory, Shannon was the recipient of the Alfred Noble Prize of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers for his work in switching theory. He received the Morris Liebmann award of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1949 for his communication theory work. Yale University awarded him an honorary Master of Science degree in 1954, and in 1955, Dr. Shannon received the Stuart Ballantine medal of the Franklin Institute for work in communication theory. He was the author of approximately thirty-five technical papers, and held several patents. He was co-author, with Warren Weaver, of The Mathematical Theory of Communication, and co-editor, with John McCarthy, of Automata Studies
Shapiro, Gustave - IEEE Life Fellow, worked as an electrical wireman, a Test Department troubleshooter at Air King Radio, and then joined the Signal Corps laboratory during World War II. During the war he shifted from being a technician to an engineer, though without a degree. He joined the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) after the war and stayed until he retired in 1977. He was involved with electronic miniaturization programs while at the NBS
Sharkey, Noel - Director of the Centre for Connection Science at the University of Sheffield. Sharkey is best known for his appearances on television as an expert on robotics as well as his more than 150 scientific articles and books. He has appeared in more than 300 episodes of BBC's television series Robot Wars, Techno Games, and co presenter of Bright Sparks
Sherwin, Chalmers - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab indicators group and then in the circuits section after it split
Shima, Masatoshi - An electronics engineer who made important contributions to the development of the microprocessor
Shimano, Bruce - worked at the Stanford AI Lab and moved to industry when he joined Unimation and founded Adept Technologies
Shinoda, Ken'ichi - An electrical engineer at the Fuji Electrical Company who contributed to the development of manganese and alkaline batteries
Shipp, Karen - Shipp turned to computer software in mid career, and after earning a degree from North London Polytechnic, spent most of her career as a software developer at Open University, Milton Keynes
Shirai, Yoshiaki - mechanical engineer and university professor, who has worked on hand posture recognition, image processing, and sensors for surgical training
Shirley, Dame Stephanie (Steve) - In 1962, Dame Shirley founded Freelance Programmers Ltd., a software company that outsourced its work to women programmers with dependents. Her philanthropic organization, the Shirley Foundation, has supported charities dealing with autism and advanced emerging technological fields. In addition, she is one of the founding members of the British Computer Society
Shoop, Barry - 2016 President of IEEE, retired as a Brigadier General after a thirty-nine-year career in the U.S. Army, with the last twenty-five years at the United States Military Academy at West Point. At West Point he had key leadership roles, including Director of the Photonics Research Center (June 1995 – July 2000), Directory of the Electrical Engineering Program (June 2003 – June 2007), and Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (June 2014 – January 2019).
Showers, Ralph M. - began researching radio interference at the Moore School during WWII. In addition to teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, he was active within IRE, serving as chair of Committee 27 Radio Frequency Interference
Shriver, Bruce - IEEE Fellow, 1992 IEEE Computer Society president, held a number of teaching and research positions, beginning at the University of Aarhus in Denmark for two years. He then joined the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL) in 1973 where he served for 11 years before joining IBM’s T. J. Watson Research Center in 1984
Shutt, Elsie - Founded in 1958, Shutt’s company Computations, Inc. pioneered the “cottage industry” of freelance women programmers working from home with dependents. Before starting CompInc., Shutt worked as a programmer on ENIAC and at Honeywell
Siciliano, Bruce - worked in robotics, and was involved with RoManSy and with the development of the Handbook of Robotics
Siegwart, Roland - worked in robotics at Stanford, EPFL, and ETH
Siewiorek, Daniel - IEEE Life Fellow, worked on the design of nine multiprocessor systems, including the Cm* Project, and contributed to the dependability design of over two dozen commercial computing systems
Silver, Arnold - best known for his role in the Invention of the Superconducting Quantum Interference Device, better known as the SQUID, while working at the Ford Motors Scientific Lab. He later continued his work at superconducting electronic devices as a scientist and administrator at the Aerospace Corporation and TRW
Simmons, Reid - from a position a Carnegie-Mellon spent many years working on robotics projects for NASA, and in more recent years has worked extensively on human-robot social interactions
Simons, Barbara - Simons started off as a researcher at IBM where her work on clock synchronization won her an IBM Research Division Award. As president of the Association for Computing Machinery she was involved in shaping technology legislation
Sims, Michael - worked in space robotics, focusing on artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction
Sipress, Jack - involved with the development of digital transmission, particularly the T1-T4M systems. He spent two years working on satellite systems, particularly American Bell International, trying to set up a satellite system for the Shah of Iran. In 1978 he went to work on Bell Labs’ fiber optic system, particularly its installation in submarine cables
Skillman, William - Skillman played a leading role in the development of Westinghouse pulse Doppler radar systems
Skolnik, Merrill - joined MIT’s Lincoln Lab in 1955, working on radar. At the same time he taught a course on radar at Northeastern University, the basis for his 1962 book The Instruction of Radar Systems and became Superintendent of the Radar Division of the Naval Research Laboratory in 1965
Slater, Kenneth F. - joined the Radar Research & Development Establishment in Malvern, moved from the Army Radar Division to Air Defense, and participated in building the Blue Yeoman system there. In 1962, Slater was promoted to Senior Principal scientific officer and in 1965 he participated in installing an air defense system for Saudi Arabia
Slater, Lucy - A mathematician, Slater worked on hypergeometric functions and Roger-Ramujan identities using some of the first computers. She helped develop early computer operation systems, and eventually turned her research to economic theories and computing, creating econometric computer programs in conjunction with the British government
Sloan, Martha - 1993 IEEE President and an IEEE Life Fellow, spent her career on the faculty of Michigan Technological University. She was both the first female IEEE President and IEEE Treasurer. As IEEE President, she led the American Association of Engineering Societies Engineers Week
Smanko, William - Held Westinghouse management positions in Military Requirements, Marketing for Corporate Market Research, Defense Company, the Systems Development Division and Ground Radars. Projects he worked include AWG10 Pulse Doppler, F15 bid and UKADGE
Smith, Chester - worked as an engineer for the Army Signal Corps during WWII. An early member of the EMC Society, he helped to develop national standards for controlling interference effects
Smith, George E. - shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for physics with Willard Boyle and Charles K. Kao, his research included the charge-coupled device (CCD), the picture phone (integrating photolithography and silicon arrays), the electron beam machine, X-ray lithography, far UV lithography, and simulations of devices via the Cray computer
Smith, George F. - worked at Hughes Aircraft Company in 1952. He first worked in the storage tube department, where he made measurements of the secondary emission properties. He then rose to management positions at the Hughes Research Laboratories—he was in charge first of Exploratory Studies, then of many other departments. Most notably, he managed the department which included Ted Maiman, who had just produced the world’s first laser
Smith, Philip H. - took a job with Bell Telephone Laboratories, where his first assignment was in the radio research department at the Deal Beach Radio Station. During his career, Smith's work focused primarily on antenna design, both for broadcasting and radar. He is well known for his creation of the Smith Chart for finding complex impedance
Snelling, Richard - spent his career at Southern Bell and ended as Executive Vice President for Southern Bell and Bell South
Snyder, Allan Whitenack - had a varied career also saw him working at Yale Medical School to work on photoreceptors, anthropological travel in the Pacific, Physiological Labs at Cambridge, his work on What Makes a Champion and a current position at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. Snyder has contributed greatly to telecommunications with his work on optical waveguide theory and optical fiber telecommunications, and is a recipient of the Marconi Prize
Snyder, Joel - 2001 IEEE President, Snyder had a varied career during which he worked in industry, taught, and ran his own consulting firm. He spent much of his presidential year coping with financial issues
Spangler, Jack - Worked on many important Westinghouse projects such as BOMARC, Typhon, SPADE, Deep Submergence Program, and a meteorological satellite
Spilker, James - IEEE Life Fellow, in 1963, Ford Aerospace hired Spilker as a director, and he designed and implemented the payload for the world’s first military satellite communications system. In 1973 Spilker co-founded Stanford Telecommunications Inc. and sold it in 1999. Between 2001-05 he was an adjunct professor of engineering at Stanford University. In 2005, he co-founded the Stanford University Center for Position, Navigation and Time, and became the co-founder and executive chairman of AOSense Corporation in 2006
Spitzer, Cary - joined NASA’s Langley Research Center (their oldest research complex) in 1962, working there until his retirement in 1994. At Langley he worked until 1969 on wind tunnel (heat transfer instrumentation); from 1969 to 1978 on surface material experiments for the Viking unmanned mission to Mars; from 1978 to 1985 in an avionics planning office; and from 1985 to 1994 on the Advanced Transport Operating System Office (ATOPS), a research airplane that NASA used to test the Microwave Landing System (MLS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), automatic landing systems, digital date exchange, and runway traction experiments
Squire, Jon - Squire spent much of his career at Westinghouse as a software engineer, writing the programs for the embedded computers in radar systems
Staehlin, John - Worked in the Westinghouse Antenna Advanced Development section on projects such as AWACS, APQ-72, AWG-10, B-1B, DIVADS, F-22, EAR and GATOR
Steele, Earl - worked for General Electric at their Electronics Park (1951-56), working on how to make semiconductor transistors; for Motorola (1956-60), working on germanium transistors, and their jump to silicon integrated circuits; Hughes Aircraft, their Autonetics division of North American Aviation (1960—ca. 1970?), working on their shift from diodes to transistors, lasers, and simulating the effect of radiation on circuits in charge of Minuteman missiles’ guidance and control; and then to the University of Kentucky as a professor in their Electrical Engineering Department, working on hybrid micro-electronic circuits,
Steels, Luc - a long-time professor at the University of Brussels, is best known for his work on employing language for human-robot interactions. Among other things, he played a central role in the development of Sony's AIBO robotic dog
Stein, Karl Ulrich - worked in memory performance and thin magnetic film, and in the 1960s with integrated circuits. Stein was also involved with using a symmetrical amplifier and symmetrical design of memory array, leading to patents in Germany and the United States. He later moved to working with microelectronics and microcomputers in the early 1970s in the PC market and automotive industry in areas like engine control, dashboard and fuel consumption. Stein also took part in the basic development of Siemens’ components group, was general manager of Heimann, a small Siemens affiliate, Werk für Diskrete Halbleiter of Seimens and Central Lab
Stern, Arthur (1993) - 1975 IEEE President, Stern was an engineer and executive with GE, Martin-Marietta, and Magnavox. Before and during his presidential term. Stern played a central role in solving many of the integration problems that persisted after the 1963 merger that created IEEE
Stern, Arthur (2009)
Stever, H. Guyford - taught radar school for the U.S. armed forces and became the radar liaison officer to London. Later served as the President of Carnegie-Mellon University, Director of the National Science Foundation and as Science Advisor to the President of the United States
Stewart, Pat - Stewart began working with computers while at Barclay’s Bank, where she was instrumental in the company’s transition to the decimal system. She spent the bulk of her career at the Computing Service Department at Cambridge University, where she taught computer courses to the faculty
Stokes, Irving - entered the civil service in August 1940, working of the Army. At Ft. Monmouth, he worked on radar development, focusing on radar receivers. He helped developed the American version of IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) and PPI (Plan Position Indicator). He collaborated with other radar labs, including the MIT Rad Lab and the Naval Research Lab. After the war, he joined RCA to work on ICBM early warning systems and the FPS 60. In 1959, he moved to Glendale, California to become chief engineer at Space Electronics Corporation. There he worked on survivable communications and cryptocoding techniques
Stone, Ellery W. - licensed ship-to-shore operators and transmitted Naval signals from California. His postwar broadcasting experiences eventually led him to become President of the Federal Telegraph Company and then Vice-President of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
Stotz, William - worked at Bendix, where he was involved with ground radar and surveillance radar systems for the military. Stotz also worked at IBM with the SAGE Computer system
Strauss, Bruce P. - IEEE Fellow, received his ScD (Materials Science), from M.I.T., and an MBA, from the University of Chicago. He has varied experience in materials and devices for large scale applications of superconductivity primarily at the Department of Energy national laboratories and industry
Stroke, George Wilhelm - became a full professor at the University of Michigan in 1963, and did a great deal to found the field of optics in electrical engineering, and also the field of holography. He was at Michigan till 1967 (working on deconvolution, deblurring images), at SUNY Stony Brook till 1978 (still working on holography, imaging atoms in a crystal, a.k.a. crystallography), and he came to Germany in 1978 to work for MBB, Deutsche Aerospace, consulting. After 1963 he worked as a consultant to Richard Perkin at the Perkin-Elmer Corporation. He is proud of his work campaigning to get a Nobel Prize for Dennis Gabor for his pioneering work in holography
Strong, Ralph - Strong spent much of his Westinghouse career working on BOMARC. Later, he worked on several projects including the Gemini Rendezvous Radar and modifications on the radar system of the B-57 bomber
Strong, Virginia Powell - Worked on high burn-out crystals and was one of a small number of female technical staff at the MIT Rad Lab
Strull, Gene - An administrator at Westinghouse, serving as the head of the Molecular Electronics Division, the general manager of the Advanced Technology Division, and Vice President for Technology
Sturley, Kenneth - began his career at Marconi and eventually became principal of the Marconi College engineer training program. He left Marconi after World War II to set up an engineer training program at the BBC. In 1963 he left the BBC's training program and became the BBC's Chief Engineer at World Service, which involved considerable international work including a professorship at Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria in 1968
Sugano, Shigeki - spent his career at Waseda University in Japan, where much of his work has concentrated on realizing the Japanese concept of "kokuro," mind, ffection, emotion and intelligence combined, in humanoid robots
Sugano, Takuo - his research has included germanium bipolar transistors, electron transport through the surface inversion layer (the channel of the MOS transistor), silicon dioxide films, silicon oxidization, etc. He has co-edited a book, Competitive Edge: Semiconductor Industry in the US and Japan, intended to keep commercial competition from turning into national rivalry. He spent most his career as a professor at the University of Tokyo, and since his mandatory requirement at age 60 has split his time between Toyo University and the government-sponsored Institute of Physical and Chemical Research
Sugiyama, Takashi - joined Yokogawa Electric Works in 1947 and by 1978 was appointed Executive Vice President. In the late 1970’s Yokogawa began to foray into the medical systems industry under a contract with the American company, GE. By 1982 this contract was declared a formal joint venture between GE and Yokogawa, creating the new Yokogawa Medical Systems (YMS)
Suits, Guy - A research physicist and later Vice-President and Director of Research of GE. During WWII, he headed Division 15 in Electronics of the NDRC.
Sukhatme, Gaurav - Faculty at University of Southern California, director of Research for the USC Computer Science Department, director of the USC Robotic Embedded Systems Lab, and co-director of the USC Robotics Research Lab
Sullivan, Leo - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab fire-control division, focusing on the SCR-584 (XT-1 originally). He also did maintenance and operations training for the device
Suran, Jerome - 1979 IEEE President, Suran retired after thirty years at GE, and then became a professor at the University of California, Davis. As IEEE President, he tried to balance the somewhat divergent interests of U.S. and non-U.S. members
Svensson, Len - After spending the first part of his career working on radar systems, he played a leading role in the design and production of the lunar TV camera that was used by the Apollo 11 astronauts to send moving images back to Earth

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Tachikawa, Keiji - worked for NTT since 1962, working largely in digital microwave and satellite technology. He is proudest of his methodology of systems design for digital microwave technology, and for his development of three visions for NTT: the Integrated Services Digital Network vision (1979), the VI&P (multimedia) vision (1990), and the MAGIC (mobile multimedia) vision (1999)
Tanenbaum, Morris - began work at Bell Laboratories in 1952, in the Chemical Physics Department. He worked on the chemical composition of transistors. Ca. 1954, at William Shockley’s prompting, he began work on silicon crystals as possible transistors. With the invaluable collaboration of the technician Ernie Buehler, he made the world’s first silicon transistor in January 1955
Tape, Gerald F. - Worked on radar information display, relay radar, and synthetic trainers at the MIT Rad lab. He then transferred to the British branch of the Rad Lab, where he worked on integrating radar and bombing systems and on devising a recognition microwave radar system
Taylor, Russ - IEEE Life Fellow, has spent much of his career developing robots for surgical applications, first at IBM research and then at Johns Hopkins
Teal, Gordon K. - recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor and member of the National Academy of Engineering. Gordon Teal's contribution to solid state electronics, the monocrystals of germanium and silicon that opened up the field to practical use and commercial viability, guarantees him a high place in the history of technology
Teare, Benjamin R. Jr. - Electrical Engineer who worked at GE, Yale University, and as the head of the electrical engineering graduate program at the Carnegie Institute of Technology. He was actively involved in AIEE and was crucial to the merger with IRE
Terman, Lewis - 2008 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow, worked for IBM for forty-five years, retiring from the company’s research division in 2006. During his IEEE presidency, he aimed to expand activities in China, and in the humanitarian sector
Thomas, Helen - Worked on preparing a history of the MIT Rad Lab. She would later work as Editor of Publications at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics
Thomas, Leonard Sr. - researched interference reduction for the Navy during WWII before joining the Electromagnetic Compatibility Analysis Center at the Department of Defense. He was the first U.S. representative to the International Special Committee on Radio Interference and is an IEEE Fellow
Thome, Richard - spent his career working in both industry and academia. In industry, his projects included the design and fabrication of superconducting and conventional magnetic systems. Later, at MIT he taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on electromagnetic systems design. Then he established a consulting firm, providing advice on research, management, and the business development in superconducting and conventional electromechanical systems for applications and in mechanical and electrical engineering
Thompson, Patricia - after a thirty-one-year career at IEEE, Patricia A. Thompson retired as an Administrator for Customer Operations, part of the IEEE Global Meetings, Conferences & Events Department in Technical Activities
Thoren, Bertil - spent his career at the Ludvika High Voltage and Short Circuit Laboratory, his work consisted primarily of testing the breaking capacity of circuit breakers and fuses. By 1954 he became the manager of the high-power laboratory, where he stayed until the middle of the sixties, when he moved to the Power Systems Consulting Department at Västerås
Thorpe, Chuck - IEEE Life Fellow, worked chiefly at Carnegie-Mellon, is a long time leader in the development of autonomous land vehicles, better known as self-driving cars
Tilbury, Dawn - Faculty at University of Michigan and reliability and interface issues with the US Army Tank Automotive Command
Tinney, William - Widely regarded as the father of modern computer solutions for electric power networks, Tinney was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 1976, “for contributions to the application of digital computers to solve large power network problems.”
Tirrell, Matthew - His main research has been in polymer surface properties and he has been a Sloan and a Guggenheim Fellow
Toland, Daniel - started work with IEEE in 1989 in Field Service, what is now the contact center. In 1991 he began supporting the Regional Activities Board, and later the Life Members Committee, until 1996. From April 1996 to November 1997 he was involved with IEEE Technical Activities before moving back to the Regional Activities. In 1999 he became the primary staff support person for the Life Members Committee, a position he held until 2011
Tomash, Erwin - joined Telemeter Magnetics in 1956, a Los Angeles-based company. Soon he became the company's president and oversaw Telemeter Magnetics' design of core memories for computers. In 1962 he left Telemeter Magnetic, which had been bought by Ampex, and co-founded a new company, Dataproducts Corporation
Torras, Carme - Research Professor at Spanish Council of Scientific Research and author of several novels
Townes, Charles H. (1992) - 1964 Nobel prize recipient in physics, was a pioneer in the field of laser theory. He received the IEEE Medal of Honor in 1967 "For his significant contributions in the field of quantum electronics which have led to the maser and the laser."
Townes, Charles (1991)
Treptow, Arno - worked at AEG in connection with the university and got a job offer from AEG in 1958 when he finished his university study. Arno Treptow was engaged in circuit breakers development at AEG's research and development department and also got in contact with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in Genf. After several years' work, he changed over to manufacturing. Moving through rapidly, Treptow joined in 1985 the board of management of the whole company
Tudor, Edward - president of Regency Electronics, formerly I.D.E.A., when it produced the first transistorized radio, TR-1, in 1954. I.D.E.A. had been formed by three engineers who, like Tudor, had worked at RCA; they left to pursue ideas relating to film sound that RCA had rejected

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Uchiyama, Masaru - IEEE Life Fellow, received a Ph.D. in mechanical Engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1977. His research interests include robotics, flow measurement, intelligent systems, automatic control and their application to aerospace engineering.
Uenohara, Michiyuki - A communications engineer known for his work in semiconductors at Bell Labs
Ungerboeck, Gottfried - Electrical engineer known for his work in communications and as the inventor of Trellis Coded Modulation

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Vadasz, Leslie - After completing his undergraduate degree in engineering physics at McGill University, Vadasz took a job at Transitron. In 1964 he left for Fairchild Semiconductor, where he developed MOS technology and learned about silicon gate. In 1968 he left Fairchild to found Intel with former colleagues Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andrew Grove. There, he pioneered silicon gate MOS technology, which would lead to the creation of the first microprocessor
Valentinuzzi, Max - IEEE Life Fellow, set up the Department of Bioengineering at University of Tucumán. His research has included impedance microbiology and the application of deconvolution to physiology
Valley, George E. - joined the faculty of MIT as a professor of physics in 1946. His work on the use of digital computers for air defense led to the formation of the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, of which Valley was a leader from 1949 to 1957. Valley then served as Chief Scientist of the Air Force, 1957-58. In 1969 he established the Experimental Study Group, a residential community for beginning MIT students which celebrated its fortieth anniversary in 2009
Van Brussel, Hendrik - IEEE Life Fellow, a professor in Mechatronics and Automation at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven who worked on involving cutting dynamics, structural dynamics, computer-integrated manufacture, and micro- and precision engineering
Van Duzer, Theodore (1991) - spent his long career at the University of California-Berkeley developing superconducting devices and circuits. He was also the founding editor of the IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Van Duzer, Theodore (2014)
Vanderslice, Thomas - In 1980, Dr. Thomas A. Vanderslice was President and Chief Operating Officer at GTE.
Vanier, Jacques - His research work was oriented towards the understanding and the application of quantum electronics phenomena. He has been a consultant for several companies engaged in the development of atomic clocks. Jacques has also been very active on the academic circuit, giving lectures and conferences at numerous Universities, National Institutes and Summer Schools around the world. He has written more than 120 publications and is the author of review articles and books on masers, lasers and atomic clocks
Vannucchi, Guido - In 1960 he joined Telettra as a planner until, in 1970, he was appointed director of the Transmission Laboratory. In 1982 he became Vice-Director and in 1984 Director General of the company. From 1990, when Telettra was sold by FIAT to the ALCATEL group, he acted as strategic consultant to various Italian communications companies. He also promoted the Collana Scientifica Telettra, in which numerous important scientific and educational works were published, many of which he edited
Veloso, Manuela - Carnegie Mellon University faculty member who became the Herbert A. Simon Professor in 2006. Veloso discusses her career in robotics, focusing on her activities at Carnegie Mellon University
Veruggio, Gianmarco - Founder of the CNR-IAN Robotlab at Naval Automation Institute in Genoa, the association Scuola di Robotica, whose work is heavily involved in roboethics
Vester, Ben - Started in the Westinghouse Air Arm Division, where he working on the BOMARC radar, and later became manager of Electrical Design and then General Manager of Aerospace
Vig, John - 2009 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow, and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, was employed at the Electronic Components Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA, and worked as a physicist, electronics engineer and program manager, he performed and led research aimed at developing high-accuracy clocks, sensors and low-noise oscillators. During his presidency, he focused on issues such as open access publications, the value of IEEE volunteers, the question of who membership is for, diversity, the 125th IEEE Anniversary, and IEEE's role in creating and preserving history
Villard, Oswald Garrison - Director of the Radio Science Laboratory, technical advisor to the Naval Research Advisory Committee, and contributor to the field of military electronic systems
Viterbi, Andrew - IEEE Life Fellow and an Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) member, did theoretical and practical work on digital communications, including the development of the Viterbi algorithm. He co-founded Qualcomm, which developed the OmniTRACS system and the Eudora e-mail program.
Vogel, Fred - After WWI, Vogel joined the Westinghouse Company's Electrical Testing Laboratories, where his work in transformer design initially focused on research and development of insulation materials. Vogel was also a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology
Vogelman, Joseph - became head of the instrument development branch at the Air Force Laboratory at Ethantham, New Jersey. Later, in the early 1950s, he became chief scientist of the General Engineering Laboratory at the Rome Air Development Center in New York. At Rome he also served as head of Electronic Warfare and eventually as Director of Communications. In 1959 he left the Air Force and went into private industry, serving first as vice president of research and development at the Capehart Corporation and then as head of electronics research and development at the Chromalloy American Corporation. In 1973 he resigned from Chromalloy and became an independent consulting engineer, working primarily with the medical profession
Vogt, Guilfred Guil - started working full-time at the Bendix Radio Division in 1955. Although the division experienced a series of mergers, sales, and changes in the next decades, Vogt remained there for the duration of his career. He worked on several projects over the years, focusing mainly on military radar systems.
Volpe, Richard - Served as lead engineer for the Rocky-7 rover, the manager for the Mars Regional Mobility and Subsurface Access in JPL's Space Exploration Technology Program Office in 2001-2004. Volpe discusses his career in robotics, focusing on his research at CMU and work at JPL
Volz, Richard - President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society from 2006-2007 and associate computing center director at the University of Michigan, where he worked between 1964-1989

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Wade, Glen - Wade worked at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Stanford (where he receoved his PhD in 1954), GE, Raytheon, Harvard, and Cornell. Wade's career at UC Santa Barbara began in 1966, and he consulted at Zenith from 1954 to 1974. His professional service includes editoriships at the Journal of Quantum Electronics (1963-65), Transactions on Electron Devices (1961-71), and Proceedings (1977-80)
Wagner, Charles - spent most of his career at Westinghouse, where he worked on high voltage electric equipment and computers for automation and design applications. Wagner traveled extensively, both as a Westinghouse engineer and a representative of the IEEE and other service organizations
Wah, Benjamin - Fellow of the IEEE, ACM and AAAS, made fundamental contributions to nonlinear optimization. He has developed the mathematical foundation and the algorithms for solving large-scale discrete, continuous, and mixed constrained optimization problems whose functions are not necessarily in closed form
Waldron, Ken - Stanford University Professor (Research) who discusses his career and contributions in robotics, focusing on his graduate research and his work at Ohio State and Stanford
Walker, Hal - led a team that adapted a ruby laser for measuring the distance from the Earth to the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission. Walker, successfully directed a laser beam, from the Lick Observatory in California, at an 18 inch wide reflector mirror that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had set up on the Moon’s surface
Wallmark, J. T. - In 1947-1948, a stipend from the Swedish-American Foundation put Wallmark in residence at the RCA laboratories in Princeton, NJ, where he submitted multiple patents and participated in development of beam tubes for high frequency applications. Wallmark's award-winning work on the electron beam tube was published in his 1953 dissertation
Warner, Chris - As an educator, Warner has taught computer science courses at ICL, South Bank, Open University, Kingston University, and Reed Connections
Weber, Ernst (1988) - Weber spent his career at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, beginning as a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering and ultimately becoming President of what had become the Polytechnic University of New York (1957-1969). A member of both AIEE and IRE, and a past president of IRE, he was chosen by the merger committee to be the first president of IEEE. As the first IEEE President, he was most concerned with creating an integrated system out of the separate systems of the two predecessor organizations
Weber, Ernst (1991)
Webster, Roger - Webster conducted war-related research at Harvard's Radio Research Laboratory and at Caltech, where his work on an altitude sensor for bomb detonation contributed to the Manhattan Project. After World War II, Webster took employment with the Stancil-Hoffman Corporation, a Hollywood, California, manufacturer of tape recorders. He began working at Texas Instruments (then General Instruments Incorporated) in October 1951. During his first three years with the corporation, Webster worked on aspects of the magnetic airborne detector, a device used by the Navy to detect submarines. His radio technology experience on the Manhattan Project led to Webster's assignment to TI's Regency radio project in 1954
Weimer, Paul K. - Helped produce the Image Orthicon television camera tube and a solid-state camera tube
Weinschel, Bruno - 1986 IEEE President, Weinschel spent most of his career as an electrical entrepreneur, owning his own company that specialized in passive microwave components. After selling his company, he became IEEE President. As IEEE President, he saw the beginning of IEEE electronic publishing, with the distribution of abstracts via CD-ROMs
Weiss, Herbert - Worked in the MIT Rad Lab receiver group, where he made a lightweight, stable receiver. He also did systems programs work, helped assemble an American version of the British Oboe navigational system and worked on Project Cadillac
Weiss, Max - largely credited with shaping the Aerospace Laboratories during their formative years in the early 1960s. He first joined Aerospace in 1961, after spending nearly 10 years at Bell Labs and 2 years at Hughes Aircraft
Welkowitz, Walter - Worked extensively in instrumentation and started up a biomedical engineering program within Rutgers University’s Electrical Engineering Department
Wheeler, Harold A. (1985) - best known for his Neutrodyne invention and his development of Automatic Volume Control
Wheeler, Harold A. (1991)
Whinnery, John - From 1937 to 1946 Whinnery worked with the General Electric Company, focusing on waveguide discontinuities, microwave tubes, and radar applications. In 1952 Whinnery began directing Berkeley's Electronics Research Laboratory, and four years later he became the Chairman of the EE department. From 1959 to 1963 he was Dean of the College of Engineering at Berkeley
White, Edwin Lee - joined the Naval Aircraft Radio Laboratory. Leaving NRL, White spent three years as an administrative radio engineer with the Signal Corps. He then joined the Federal Radio Commission as a senior engineer, remaining with the FRC, and its successor, the FCC, until his retirement as chief of the Safety and Special Radio Services Bureau in 1955
White, Marvin - worked Westinghouse, where he conducted research into electron beam scanning, solid state imaging, complementary MOS (CMOS) transistors, and MNOS transistors, which can be used as Nonvolatile Semiconductor Memory, and which eventually evolved into sonos, semiconductor flash memory and storage memory, and smart cards
White, Richard M. - IEEE Fellow, worked as a research scientist in the microwave division at GE labs in Palo Alto, CA, where he rediscovered the the photoacoustic effect (originally discovered by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880), before returning to academia in the 1960s in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at the University of California at Berkeley
White, Stanley A. - worked on R&D of inertial navigation systems, components and devices at Autonetics, the electronics division of North American Aviation. In 1961 he returned to Purdue on educational leave and taught full time for 2 years. In 1963 he was selected as a North American Aviation Science-Engineering Fellow and completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1965. Back at NAA, White worked on aircraft, missile and spacecraft guidance, navigation, flight-control and communications systems and a variety of other projects, remaining with the company after its merger with Rockwell
Whitney, Eugene - IEEE Fellow, Westinghouse's Manager of Waterwheel Generator and Synchronous Condensor Engineering for twenty-three years. His design projects include the Grand Coulee Dam and Niagara Falls hydrogenerators. He retired from Westinghouse in 1975 and began independent consulting as well as consulting for Westinghouse on a part-time basis
Whitney, Telle - Whitney got her start in Silicon Valley designing computer chips and software. After holding senior management positions at Actel, Malleable Technologies, and PMC Sierra, she joined the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology where she is currently president
Whittaker, Red - spent his career at Carnegie-Mellon, where he has long been a principal in its Robotics Institutes. Among his achievements was the design and a deployment of a robot used in the clean up of the failed Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor
Widrow, Bernard - IEEE Fellow, co-author of two major engineering texts, Adaptive Signal Processing (with S. D. Stearns, 1985), and Adaptive Inverse Control (with E. Walach,1994)
Wiener, Jim - served as IEEE's general counsel for over twenty years, until leaving corporate practice in 1987
Wiesner, Jerome - Worked at the MIT Rad Lab to make a transmit-receive switch for X-band and later became project engineer for System Cadillac
Wilbur, Silvia - A researcher at University College London, Wilbur was involved in the ARPANET project. After teaching at the University of East London and Queen Mary College, she worked on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, developing video-conferencing technology. She also ran Women Into Computing workshops to introduce girls to computer science
Wilcox, Brian - employee of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Wilcox was involved in several robotics projects for planetary exploration, including the Mars Rover Sample Return and nanorover
Wilcox, George - In 1950 Wilcox took over the Westinghouse International's Special Projects Operation, and he became the international company's Executive Vice President in 1953. In 1955 he became the president and CEO of Westinghouse's Canadian company. Wilcox was promoted to Executive Vice-President of Westinghouse as a whole in 1963
Willbanks, Emily - Devoting her research to defense projects, Willbanks worked at Pratt and Whitney Aircraft before joining Los Alamos. Her projects included designing weapons systems and maintaining storage systems
Williams, Kimball - spent most of his career at Eaton Corporation where he became the principal engineer, overseeing their EMC Laboratory. His work with IEEE includes serving as president of the EMC Society
Williams, Michael - professor of computer science at the University of Calgary, 2007 IEEE Computer Society president
Winfield, Alan - Associate Dean (Research) and Hewlett-Packard Professor of Electronic Engineering at the University of West England, Bristol
Winston, Arthur - 2004 IEEE President, IEEE Life Fellow, had a career spanning both industry and applied education. As IEEE President, he championed IEEE as a global organization
Wolff, Irving - joined RCA in 1924, working in the Technical and Test laboratory of the acoustics department. Here, he was involved in loudspeaker development as well as sound recording work for the film industry. In the early 1930s, he shifted his interests to microwave development and was instrumental in RCA's development of microwave aviation navigational equipment. He retired from RCA in 1959
Wonham, Murray - involved with several control research groups in the United States, including the Control and Information Systems Laboratory at Purdue University, the Research Institute of Advanced Studies (RIAS), Brown University's Department of Applied Mathematics, and NASA's Electronics Research Center. In 1970, he became a faculty member at the University of Toronto in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Control
Wouk, Victor - invented a new form of compact high voltage power cords for providing power supply, and founded a company, Beta Electric, to sell them. They were used for test equipment for making TVs. He sold the company to Sorenson and Company in 1956, then went to work for Sorenson as the chief engineer of their power supply section. He then invented the use of thyristers for use in off-line switching regulators—his most significant power conditioning achievement, as they are now used in all electronic equipment
Wray, Diane - Wray started programming for the Electricity Board before joining the Civil Service. She worked first for the Social Security Department before joining Securities, and helped enforce technology security standards in both offices

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Xiao, Jing - Faculty at the University of North Carolina Charlotte and former program director of the robotics and human augmentation program at the National Science Foundation

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Yamamura, Sakae - A Nikola Tesla Medal winner who is known for his work on magnetic field driving of electrical arc, his work on analytical theory of the linear induction motor, his development of spiral vector theory, and his work on numerically controlled machine tools
Yamanaka, Takashi - executive with the Yokogawa companies, presents a detailed account of the Yokogawa Electric Corporation’s operational policies
Yim, Mark - Founder of Virtual Technologies, Yim also worked at Xerox PARC on modular reconfigurable robots. He is currently the Gabel Family Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Yoshida, Susumo - An electrical engineer at Sony who made a significant contribution to the development of the Trinitron television display tube
Young, David M. Jr. - Known for his work in numerical analysis, he also established the Computation Center at University of Texas and was the founding director of the Center for Numerical Analysis
Yuta, Shinichi - worked in several positions at the University of Tsukuba since his entry, including dean of the College of Engineering Systems, the chairman of the Institute of Engineering Mechanics and Systems, vice president for research, international affairs, and industrial incorporation, director of the Industry Relations and Technology Transfer Office

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Zadeh, Lotfi - Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, he is well known for his work on fuzzy sets
Zajc, Baldomir - joined the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana as Assistant, was elected Assistant Professor in 1976, Associate Professor in 1981 and Full Professor in Electronics and integrated Cicuit Design in 1985. His personal research has been focused mostly on electronic circuit theory and integrated circuit design. He has published more than 120 papers in national and international journals and conferences, more than 20 research reports for state and industrial projects and international projects such as COST, Copernicus, Tempus, ACTS and he was involved in preparation of the Fifth Framework
Zetterberg, Lars - received his licentiate degree in 1954 and a scholarship to the University of Chicago where he worked on statistics, after which he went to Bell Labs for three months. Upon returning to Sweden, Zetterberg went back to FOA and worked on developing army communications on the battlefield, also pursuing his PhD and developing Swedish air force defense in air traffic control. After becoming tired of military work, Zetterberg worked a brief stint at SAAB, was at the University of Southern California for four months working with Irving Reed, and eventually went back to KTH as a professor from 1965 until his still active retirement in 1990
Zimbalatti, Anthony - worked for the Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth before joining the private sector. He worked at Sperry and Grumman, and was a founding member of the Radio Frequency Interference Society
Ziv, Jacob - IEEE Life Fellow, is best known for developing the Lempel-Ziv algorithm for data compression with his colleague, Abraham Lempel. The Lempel-Ziv Data Compression Algorithm was designated as an IEEE milestone in 2004
Zlatuška, Jiří - In 1994, he became professor of informatics at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University and in the same year, he founded the Faculty of Informatics at Masaryk University and served as its first dean until 1998. From 1998 till 2004, he served as the rector of the university. While in that position, he introduced comprehensive electronic Information system as an effective backbone of the university
Zuse, Konrad - German pioneer in computer development. In 1934, when he was a student at Zuse began constructing mechanical computers and then relay computers. During World War II, Zuse founded a company, the Zuse Engineer Bureau. After the war, he received contracts from Remington Rand in Switzerland to build relay computers, and soon expanded into making computers for European companies and universities
Zworykin, Vladimir - A director of electronic research at RCA and an honorary vice president. He was a pioneer of television technology and invented the Iconoscope