Robert W. Lucky
Robert W. Lucky (born January 9, 1936 in Pittsburgh ) is an American electrical engineer .
Lucky studied electrical engineering at Purdue University with a bachelor's degree in 1957 and a master's degree in 1959. Two years later, he received his doctorate in 1961 with John C. Hancock at Purdue University. His dissertation was on digital communication with simultaneous phase and amplitude modulation, which anticipated ideas of quadrature amplitude modulation . From 1961 he was at Bell Laboratories , where he was initially in the Data Theory Department of William R. Bennett . In 1964 he invented the adaptive equalizer there . In 1982 he became director of the research department on communication systems. In 1992 he left Bell Labs and went to Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies from 1994), where he was Corporate Vice President responsible for research management. In 2002 he retired.
His invention of the Adaptive Equalizer made it possible to quadruple the digital transmission rate of telephone modems (from 2400 to 9600 bits / second) when it was introduced in 1964. It is used in every modem today as a subroutine of an embedded microprocessor.
He was editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE and President of the IEEE Communications Society , chaired the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the Technological Advisory Council of the Federal Communications Commission . He is also a member of the Defense Science Board .
In 1998 he received the Golden Jubilee Award of the IEEE Information Theory Society for the invention of adaptive equalizer methods. In 1987 he received the Marconi Prize and in 1995 the IEEE Edison Medal .
He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the National Academy of Engineering .
Lucky is also known for essays and speeches on technology and tech culture. Since 1982 he has had a bimonthly column ( Reflections ) in IEEE Spectrum magazine .
Fonts
- with J. Salz, EJ Weldon: Principles of Communication, McGraw Hill 1965
- Lucky strikes again, Wiley, IEEE 1992
- Silicon dreams, St. Martins Press 1989
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| SURNAME | Lucky, Robert W. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 9, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittsburgh |