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Dr. Lucky is corporate vice president of applied research
at Telcordia Technologies. He began his telecommunications
career at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, New Jersey,
where he invented the adaptive equalizer, the foundation for
essentially all high-speed data transmission today. He co-authored
a textbook on data communications that became the most-cited
communications reference for over a decade.
Dr. Lucky has delivered invited lectures at more than 100
universities and has been a guest on network television shows
including Bill Moyers' "A World of Ideas," discussing the
effects of future technological advances. He is the author
of Silicon Dreams, a semitechnical and philosophical discussion
of the ways in which humans and computers process information.
He is an IEEE fellow and a member of the National Academy
of Engineering. He was chairman of the Scientific Advisory
Board of the United States Air Force from 1986 to 1989. In
1987 he received the prestigious Marconi Prize for his contributions
to data communications. He has been awarded honorary doctorates
from Purdue University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology,
the Edison Medal of IEEE, and the Exceptional Civilian Contributions
Medal of the U.S. Air Force.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Lucky attended
Purdue University, where he received a BS degree in electrical
engineering in 1957, an MS in 1959, and a doctorate in 1961.
Dr. Lucky has been vice president and executive vice president
of IEEE and president of the IEEE Communications Society.
He has edited several technical journals, including the Proceedings
of the IEEE, and since 1982 he has written the bimonthly "Reflections"
column of personalized observations about the engineering
profession in IEEE Spectrum magazine. In 1993 his columns
were collected in the IEEE Press book Lucky
Strikes ... Again.
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