Gerard J. Foschini
Gerard Joseph Foschini (born February 28, 1940 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) is an American engineer for communications technology.
Foschini studied electrical engineering at Newark College with a bachelor's degree in 1961 and at New York University with a master's degree in 1963. In 1967 he received his doctorate in mathematics from the Stevens Institute of Technology . He was with Bell Laboratories since 1961 . He also taught at Princeton University and Rutgers University .
He is particularly known for the development of radio communication using multiple antennas in the transmitter and receiver, the BLAST ( Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time ) system (1996). It enables a higher data transmission rate in a certain frequency band. The procedure formed the basis of the field of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems.
In 2008 he received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Award and he received the Eric E. Sumner Award from the IEEE. He is a Fellow of Bell Laboratories and an IEEE Fellow (1986). He received the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from New Jersey and the Bell Laboratories Patent Award.
Foschini has been married since 1962 and has two children.
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- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Foschini Layered space – time architecture for wireless communication in a fading environment when using multiple antennas , Bell Labs Syst. Tech. J., Fall 1996, pp. 41-59
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Foschini, Gerard J. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Foschini, Gerard Joseph (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American communications engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jersey City , New Jersey |