Internationally recognized as one of the world’s preeminent industrial
research facilities and as a center of scientific and engineering excellence,
few institutions have had as great an impact on modern society as
Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs.
Awards
An extensive array of awards has been bestowed upon Bell Labs and its
researchers, including seven Nobel prizes, twelve U.S. Medals of Science,
twelve U.S. Medals of Technology, six Draper prizes, nine Marconi Awards, an
Emmy, a GRAMMY, and an Academy Award.
Recognition
Long acknowledged as one of the world's preeminent research institutions,
Bell Labs continues to foster an environment for employees to excel
individually. Bell Labs’ former and current employees received wide recognition
for excellence in their respective fields.
Internationally recognized as the world's preeminent industrial research
facility and as a center of scientific and engineering excellence, few
institutions have had as great an impact on modern society as Bell Labs. Our
scientists and engineers have earned thousands of awards, including:
Twelve researchers have received Nobel Prizes in Physics for work done while
they were at Bell Labs. The Nobel Prize is the world's most coveted award in
intellectual achievement. Categories for awards are physics, chemistry,
medicine, literature, peace and economics. The awards honor Alfred Nobel, the
Swedish chemist and philanthropist. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has
awarded Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry since 1901.
Charge Coupled Device (CCD) (2009): Willard S. Boyle and George E.
Smith were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention and
development of the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology that transforms
patterns of light into useful digital information and is the basis for many
forms of modern imaging.
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (1998): Horst Stormer and Daniel
Tsui (now at Princeton University), were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for
the discovery and explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
(1998): Robert Laughlin (now at Stanford University) were
awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery and explanation of the
fractional quantum Hall effect. His work was done while he was at
Livermore.
Optical Trapping (1997): Steven Chu (now at Stanford
University), shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics. He was cited for
developing methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light.
Radio Astronomy (1978): Arno A. Penzias (now retired from Bell
Labs) and Robert W. Wilson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics. Penzias and
Wilson were cited for their discovery of faint background radiation remaining
from the "big bang" explosion that gave birth to the universe billions of years
ago.
Improved Understanding of Local Electronic States in Solids
(1977): Philip W. Anderson shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for
developing an improved understanding of the electronic structure of glass and
magnetic materials.
Transistor (1956): John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William
Shockley received the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the transistor in
1947.
Wave Nature of Matter (1937): Clinton J. Davisson shared the
Nobel Prize in Physics for demonstrating the wave nature of matter. His
fundamental work is part of the foundation for much of today's solid-state
electronics.
Five scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics and Chemistry who
once worked at Bell Labs:
1996: Sir Harold Kroto of the University of Sussex shared the
1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Rice University professors Richard Smalley
and Robert Curl, who in 1985 discovered the forms of carbon now known as
buckminsterfullerenes, fullerenes, or just "buckyballs." Kroto had a one-year
postdoctoral assignment at Bell Labs in 1966-67, before he did his
Nobel-winning work.
1996: Douglas C. Osheroff, a Bell Labs researcher for 15 years,
shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for work he did at Cornell University as a
graduate student on the behavior of helium at extremely low temperatures.
1981: Arthur L. Schawlow received the Nobel Prize in Physics for
his "contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy." Schawlow invented
the laser with Charles H. Townes while at Bell Labs in 1958.
1964: Charles H. Townes shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with
A. Prokhorov and N. Basov of the Lebedev Institute in Moscow for "fundamental
work in the field of quantum electronics which has led to the construction of
oscillators and amplifiers based on the maser-laser principle." Townes invented
the laser with Arthur L. Schawlow while a consultant at Bell Labs in 1958.
The National Medal of Science was established by the United States Congress
in 1959. The medal is awarded by the U.S. President to individuals "deserving
of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to
knowledge in the physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences."
The awards, administered by the U.S. National Science Foundation, have been
awarded to twelve Bell Labs researchers.
C. Kumar Patel (1996) for his invention of the carbon dioxide laser,
which led to numerous scientific, industrial, and medical applications.
James Flanagan (1996) for bringing engineering techniques and speech
science together to solve basic problems in speech communication.
Alfred Y. Cho (1993) For his pioneering work in the development of
molecular beam epitaxy, which revolutionized thin film growth making possible
atomically accurate structures for electronic and optoelectronic devices, and
for the study of new quantum phenomena.
William O. Baker (1988) For pioneering studies of the complex
relationships between the molecular structures and physical properties of
polymers, for his distinguished record of leadership in the combined
disciplines of science and engineering, and for distinguished service to
government and education.
Solomon J. Buchsbaum (1986) for his contributions to national science
and technology policy.
Philip Anderson (1982) for his fundamental and comprehensive
contributions to the theoretical understanding of condensed matter.
Rudolph Kompfner (1974) for his invention of the traveling-wave tube
and for major contributions to communication satellites and to optical
communications.
John R. Tukey (1973) for his studies in mathematical and theoretical
statistics, and for his outstanding contributions to the application of
statistics to the physical, social, and engineering sciences.
John R. Pierce (1963) for outstanding contributions to communications
theory, electron optics and traveling wave tubes, and for the analysis leading
to world-wide radio communications using artificial earth satellites.
Arthur Schawlow (1991) for his role in the
conception of the laser and in advancing its applications, especially in laser
spectroscopy.
Charles Townes (1982) for fundamental
contributions to the understanding of matter through its interaction with
electromagnetic radiations and the application of this knowledge to the service
of mankind, most notably in the invention of the maser and laser.
Claude Shannon (1966) for brilliant contributions
to the mathematical theories of communications and information processing and
for his early and continuing impact on the development of these
disciplines.
The National Medal of Technology is presented by the United States President
to individuals, teams, or companies, for accomplishments in the innovation,
development, commercialization, and management of technology, made evident by
the establishment of new or significantly improved products, processes, or
services. The medal, administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been
awarded to Bell Labs as an organization and to eleven Bell Labs
researchers.
Herwig Kogelnik (2006) for his pioneering contributions and
leadership in the development of lasers, optoelectronics, integrated optics and
lightwave communications systems.
James E. West (2006) for co-inventing the electret microphone with
Gerhard Sessler while working at the Bell Labs.
Alfred Y. Cho (2005) for his contributions to the invention of
molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and his continuing work to refine it into a
commercial process. MBE ‘grows’ ordered materials one atomic layer at a
time, allowing engineering of the highly precise semiconductor components
needed for advanced electronics and photonics.
Arun Netravali (2002) for pioneering contributions in digital image
and video compression technology.
Kenneth Thompson and Dennis Ritchie (1998) for creating the UNIX*
operating system and C Language.
Richard H. Frenkiel and Joel S. Engel (1994) for their fundamental
contributions to the theory, design, and development of cellular mobile
communications systems.
Amos Joel (1993) For his vision, inventiveness and perseverance in
introducing technological advances in telecommunications, particularly in
switching, that have had a major impact on the evolution of the
telecommunications industry in the U.S. and worldwide.
W. Lincoln Hawkins (1992) For his invention and contribution to the
commercialization of long-lived plastic coatings for communications cable that
has saved billions of dollars for telephone companies around the world; and for
his leadership in encouraging minorities to pursue science and engineering
careers.
John S. Mayo (1990) for providing the technological foundation for
information age communications and for overseeing the conversion of the
national switched telephone network from analog to digital-based
technology.
Bell Laboratories (1985) for contributions over decades to modern
communications systems. It was the first institution recognized with this
honor.
The Charles Stark Draper Prize, awarded by the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering, recognizes outstanding engineering achievements that have
contributed to the welfare and freedom of humanity. It is considered the
world's highest engineering prize.
Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith (2006) For their invention and
development of the charge-coupled device, or CCD, which transforms patterns of
light into useful digital information, The CCD is the key enabling technology
in many forms of modern imaging including its universal use in digital cameras,
video cameras, endoscopy, astronomy, bar code readers, and image scanners
(e.g., copy machines)
John MacChesney (1999) for his invention and development of the
modified chemical vapor deposition (MCVD) process, a world standard for
optical-fiber manufacturing.
Joel Engel and Richard Frenkiel (2013) for
pioneering contributions to the world’s first cellular telephone networks,
systems, and standards.
John R. Pierce (1995) for development of
communication satellite technology.
Nine Bell Labs researchers have won the Marconi International Fellowship
Award. The Fellowships, based out of Columbia University, New York, N.Y., are
granted to individuals who have made significant contribution to the
advancement of communications or knowledge transfer through scientific or
technological discoveries or innovations.
Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach (2009) for their insights
into how information is transmitted over optical networks and for finding
innovative ways to significantly increase the speed and capacity of optical
fiber communications systems.
Herwig Kogelnik (2001) for his work as a pioneer in the development
of fiber optic technology - work that has revolutionized modern
telecommunications.
Jacob Ziv (1995) for contributions to the fields of
communications and information theory, and in particular for his work on the
Lempel-Ziv data compression algorithm.
Izuo Hayashi (1993) for his pioneering contributions to
optoelectronic technology, including the first room-temperature continuous-wave
semiconductor injection laser with double heterostructure, highly reliable
lasers for optical communication, optical memory, and many other applications,
as well as for his life contribution to communications science.
James L. Flanagan (1992) for his contributions to the development of
signal coding algorithms used in telecommunications, voice-mail systems, and
techniques for automatic speech synthesis and recognition. In addition,
Flanagan invented autodirective microphone arrays for use in teleconferencing
and pioneered the use of computers for acoustic signal processing.
Robert W. Lucky (1987) for the invention of the adaptive equalizer
while at Bell Labs. This invention is a technique for correcting distortion in
telephone signals, and is today used in all high-speed data transmissions.
Lucky also is well respected for his popularized writings about public use of
communications technology.
John R. Pierce (1979) for advances in space and satellite
technologies relevant to improving world communications. Pierce was the first
person carefully to evaluate the various technical options in satellite
communications and its financial prospects. While at Bell Labs, he designed and
was responsible for the launch of the first active communications satellite,
Telstar I. His work has resulted in the theoretical development of the
possibilities of communications satellites and of broadband digital
transmissions via pulse code modulations and multivalent signals. Pierce is
well known for his many books that explain clearly the science and technology
of communications.
Arthur L. Schawlow (1977) for his research in the fields of optical
and microwave spectroscopy, nuclear quadrupole resonance superconductivity, and
lasers. Schawlow, along with Charles H. Townes, invented the laser in 1958.
While working at Bell Labs, they succeeded in extending the maser principle of
amplifying electromagnetic waves into the shorter wavelengths of infrared and
visible light. Schawlow won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1981.
Fifteen Bell Labs scientists and engineers have been honored with the
C&C (Computers and Communication) Prize, awarded by the NEC Corporation.
This award recognizes individuals who are pioneers in the field of computers
and communication technologies.
John MacChesney (2007) For pioneering contributions to Research and
development resulting in low-loss optical fiber.
George Smith and Willard Boyle (1999) For their invention of the
charge-coupled device (CCD), a light-sensitive integrated circuit used in a
wide variety of uses, primarily in imaging.
Arun Netravaliand Barry Haskell (1997) For
pioneering contributions in digital image and video compression technology.
Alfred Y. Choand Akira Hasegawa (1995) for
pioneering development of the Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) crystal growth
process, a technology that is revolutionizing high-performance optoelectronics
and electronics for computers and communications.
Jack M. Sipress (1991) for leadership in the development of
high-speed digital fiberguide systems that span the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, thereby making possible global digital connectivity over high-capacity
optical systems.
Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson (1989) for creating the
UNIX* operating system and C programming language.
John S. Mayo, Eric E. Sumner, and M. Robert Aaron (1988) for
pioneering contributions to establishing a basic technology for digital
communications by developing the world's first practical commercial high-speed
digital communications system, T-1.
Izuo Hayashi and Morton B. Panish (1986) for conceiving and
developing the first room-temperature continuous-wave semiconductor injection
laser with double heterostructure.
A number of scientists who were associated with Bell Labs during the course
of their careers have received the IEEE Medal of Honor. Each year, IEEE awards
the medal, which is the highest honor in the electrical engineering community,
to an individual who has made significant contributions to the field. The
recipients associated with Bell Labs include:
Here's a quick look at some Bell Labs employees — both present and past —
who have recently attained noteworthy recognition of their excellence in their
respective fields.
Antonia Tulino was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the
development and application of random matrix methods in information
theory.
Rene Essiambre was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to fiber
nonlinearities in optical telecommunication systems.
Harish Viswanathan was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to
wireless communication systems.
Li Erran Li was named an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the design
of algorithms and protocols for wireless networks.
Alice White was named an Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow for
developing advanced nanofabrication techniques and applying them to integrated
electronics and photonics to enable next generation lightwave devices.
Greg Raybon was named an Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow for
pioneering contributions to high-speed optical transmission systems and
technologies.
Marcus Weldon has been appointed to the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission’s newly created Net Neutrality Advisory Committee. The Committee
will assist the FCC in monitoring the state of Internet openness and the
effects of its rules.
Debasis Mitra received the International Teletraffic Congress Arne
Jensen Lifetime Achievement Award for his outstanding contributions to
teletraffic science at the 24th International Teletraffic Congress
(ITC) in Poland.
Alan Gnauck was elected member of the National Academy of
Engineering for contributions to high-speed, high-capacity lightwave
communications systems.
Debasis Mitra was selected from a distinguished set of nominees to
receive the ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to
the modeling, analysis and design of communication networks.
Animesh Nandi has been recognized by TR35 India for his work on
privacy-preserving personalization systems and large-scale distributed
systems.
Peter Winzer – Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow for seminal
contributions to optical communications and data networking, in particular
advanced optical modulation formats and advanced optical receiver
concepts.
Chandrasekhar Sethumadhavan – Optical Society of America (OSA)
Fellow for seminal contributions to high-performance opto-electronic integrated
circuits, wavelength division multiplexed transmission, and high-capacity
coherent optical transmission.
Piyush Gupta and Xiang Liu were selected to participate in
the prestigious National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium.
Ken Budka has been appointed to the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission’s Technical Advisory Board for First Responder Interoperability and
elected Vice Chair of the Board.
TV Lakshman received the IEEE Infocom Achievement Award for his
seminal contributions to high-speed packet networking.
Project EARTH has won the 4th Future Internet Award which was awarded
during the closing ceremony of Aalborg’s Future Internet Week. EARTH is
an EU FP7 funded project and consortium of 15 partners (led by Bell Labs) with
the objective of improving the energy efficiency of mobile broadband networks
and reducing the power consumption by at least 50% compared to current mobile
systems.
Carl Nuzman and Gerhard Kramer (formerly Bell Labs, now Technical
University of Munich) have been selected to receive the Edison Patent Award in
Telecom by Research & Development Council of New Jersey. The patent
is entitled "Simultaneous Estimation of Multiple Channel Coefficients Using a
Common Probing Sequence," USPTO Application Number 12/3770148.
Sébastien Bigo was elected as member of the Board of Stakeholders of
Photonics21. Photonics21 is a European Industry Consortium which aims to
implement a common photonics strategy for Europe and to align synergies between
industry, science and politics.
Jean-Luc Beylat was appointed by French Ministers of Research of
Industrial Renewal and of Small and Medium Enterprises, Innovation, and Digital
Economy to drive a working group on the optimization of innovation &
transfer.
Bell Labs Technical Journal won the 2012 APEX award for Technical
Writing. APEX Awards for Publication Excellence are presented for
excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and success in achieving
overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
Jeff Sinsky received the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation
Award for innovations in microwave and high speed optical communication
technologies.
Dimitri Papadimitriou received the Best Paper award at the Future
Internet (FI) Conference held in Aalborg, Denmark.
Dheena Moongilan won the IEEE International Symposium on EMC’s Best
Paper award entitled "Corona Noise Considerations for Smart Grid Wireless
Communication and Control Network Planning".
Hardy Halbauer and Johannes Koppenborg’s paper entitled
"Interference Avoidance Techniques for Improving Ubiquitous User Experience”
received the Future Network and Mobile Summit Best Paper Award at Future
Network and Mobile Summit in Germany.
Giovanna Carofiglio received the Best Paper Award at ICN 2012 (in
conjunction with SIGCOMM 2012) for her paper: "Joint Hop-by-Hop and
Receiver-Driven Interest Control Protocol for Content-Centric
Networks."
Wieslawa Wajda received the International Conference Wireless
Computing and Application Best Paper Award for her paper, “New concept of
a modular base station and benefits for network management and energy
efficiency” in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Milind Buddhikot along with Bell Labs summer intern program
students, were awarded BEST TECHNICAL PAPER with STUDENT authors for their
paper, “A Dual Technology Femto Cell Architecture for Robust Communication
using Whitespaces”.
Tin Kam Ho received a best poster award jointly with Larry
O’Gorman and Yafeng Yin, on a presentation entitled “Event Classification
for Surveillance by Non-Discrete Tracking”, during the Second Greater New York
Area Multimedia and Vision Meeting at Columbia University, New York.
Guilhem de Valicourt received the prestigious Marconi Society Paul
Baran Young Scholar award (recognizing academic achievements and leadership in
the field of communications and information science) for his PhD thesis on
opto-electronic devices.
Michael Scharf received the Prize of the Anton-and-Klara-Roeser
Foundation for his PhD thesis on Fast Startup Internet Congestion Control
Mechanisms for Broadband Interactive Applications.
Jinsung Kim received the Silver Prize from the prestigious Humantech
Thesis Contest that is sponsored by Samsung in Korea.
Jason Stafford received the EUROTHERM Young Scientist Award for his
Ph.D. dissertation on “On the Miniaturisation of Convection Cooling Solutions
Applicable to Portable Electronic Devices” at the 6th European
Thermal Sciences Conference in France.
Jakob Hoydis received the Publication Prize for his Ph.D. Thesis by
the French Supelec University. The thesis is entitled: “Random
Matrix Theory for Advanced Communication Systems”.
Dr. Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs Fellow and Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff Emeritus, Bell Labs, and Dr. Kenneth Thompson, Bell Labs
Fellow and now Distinguished Engineer, Google Inc., were honored with the 2011
Japan Prize in information and communications. They received this honor for
developing the UNIX® operating system (OS), and the C programming language for
use on UNIX, significantly advancing computer software, hardware and networks
over the past four decades, and facilitating the realization of the
Internet.
Jeong Kim, Bell Labs President, received the prestigious New Jersey
Inventors Hall of Fame Trustees Award for his achievements and leadership.
Gabriel Charlet received World Technology Awards for Communications
Technology for "innovative work of the greatest likely long-term significance"
for the World Technology Network (WTN) at the United Nations Headquarters in
New York. He has also been named a WTN Fellow.
Tod Sizer was honored by Popular Mechanics with the 2011
Breakthrough Award for his ground breaking work on the
lightRadio™ cube.
Volker Hilt has been invited to attend the prestigious National
Academy of Engineering's German-American Frontiers of Engineering
Symposium (GAFOE) in Germany.
Lisa Zhang was selected to participate in the prestigious U.S.
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
Yves Baeyens was selected to participate in the prestigious EU-U.S.
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
Global Telecoms Business has honored Bell Labs with Global Telecoms
Business Innovation Award not only for its long history of pioneering work in
the industry — including the transistor and the laser — but for lightRadio, its
latest innovation in mobile communications.
Sebastien Bigo has been elected to serve on the Board of Governors
of the IEEE Photonics Society.
Jean-Luc Beylat, head of Bell Labs France, was elected president of
the System@tic Paris region. Systematic is a consortium of large companies,
SMEs, research institution & universities whose goal is to develop the
regional economy, boost the competitiveness of local companies by leveraging
innovation, training and partnership opportunities.
Ken Budka has been appointed to U.S. FCC Public Safety Advisory
Committee (PSAC). PSAC “provides recommendations to the FCC’s Emergency
Response Interoperability Center (ERIC) concerning the technical and
operational requirements and procedures to ensure nationwide interoperability;
requirements and procedures to address operability, roaming, priority access,
gateway functions and interfaces, and interconnectivity, as well as
authentication and encryption requirements for common public safety broadband
applications and network use.”
Vishy Poosala received the Zinnov recognition and was judged as the
'Best Technical Role Model' for being an inspiration, not only within Bell
Labs, but for every individual in the Indian R&D ecosystem.
Murali Kodialam, TV Lakshman won the IEEE William R. Bennett
Prize in the Field of Communications Networking for their paper on "Oblivious
Routing of Highly Variable Traffic in Service Overlays and IP Backbones”.
Patrice Rondao Alface, Jean-Francois Macq, & Nico
Verzijp's paper "Evaluation of Bandwidth Performance for Interactive
Spherical Video" was awarded Best Paper at the IEEE International Conference on
Multimedia and Expo's Workshop on Media Aware Networking.
Diego Perino and Matteo Varvello's paper "A Reality Check for
Content Centric Networking" was awarded Best Paper at the ACM SIGCOMM ICN 2011
Workshop.
Patrice Rondao Alface's paper "3D Objects Watermarking and Tracking
of their Visual Representations" was awarded Best paper at the Third
International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA2011).
Piotr Mirowski received the Janet Fabri Award for Outstanding Ph.D.
Dissertation in Computer Science, New York University, New York.
Stefan Valentin received the prestigious Klaus Tschira Award for
promoting the public understanding of science by writing a magazine article on
his Ph.D. thesis.
Laurent Schmalen was awarded the E-Plus Award for his Ph.D.
dissertation on "Iterative Source-Channel Decoding: Design and Optimization for
Hertogeneous Networks".
Oriol Bertran-Pardo has been honored with the Photonics21 Student
Innovation Award for his outstanding contribution on Study of disruptive
solutions for the next generation of high bit-rate optical communications
systems, for increasing their capacity and lowering the footprint.
Gabriel Charlet has been recognized by the MIT Technology Review
(TR35) as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for his overall
research on optical networking systems based on Wavelength Division
Multiplexing (WDM), and more particularly for his work in coherent detection
and advanced modulation formats. The resulting innovations are present in the
new generation of 40 and 100 Gigabit/s fiber systems that Alcatel-Lucent
announced in May 2010.
Dr. Michael Tompsett, former Bell Labs researcher, will be inducted
into the New jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for Multiple Patents-Semi-Conductor
& Optical Imaging Technologies E.G.; Camera System for Producing a
Temperature Image; Imaging Devices, Solid State Circuitry and Conversion of
Analog to Digital Signals.
Andrew Chraplyvy, Robert Tkach and Kenneth Walker will be
inducted into the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame for their Optical Fiber for
Wavelength Division Multiplexing-US Patent #5,327,516
Daniel (Matthew) Andrews' paper "Approximation Algorithms for the
Edge-Disjoint Paths Problem via Raecke Decompositions" was chosen as the Best
Paper Awards at the FOCS (annual symposium on the "Foundations of Computer
Science" organized by the IEEE Computer Society,
http://theory.stanford.edu/focs2010/ ) is one of top 2 conferences in
Theoretical Computer Science and arguably the most elite. It is very difficult
to get a paper accepted (harder than getting a paper accepted in a top-tier
journal) and it is very high honor to get a Best Paper Award from FOCS. Also,
the topic is of interest to Alcatel-Lucent and Bell Labs. The origin of the
problem is in the efficient design of restoration in networks, i.e., designing
back-up paths for recovery from possible failures in the primary paths in
networks.
Dr. George E. Smith, 2009 Nobel Prize recipient in Physics and
former Bell Labs researcher, will accept this award from New Jersey Governor
Chris Christie at the 2010 R&D Council of NJ's annual Thomas Alva Edison
Patent Award Ceremony & Reception in November
Timo Pfau received the ITG-Foerderpreis 2010 Award from the
German Information Technology Society for outstanding dissertations in the
field of information technology.
Reinaldo Valenzuela was given the 2010 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award for
his pioneering contributions to multi antennas systems and microwave
propagation. The IEEE bestows the Sumner Award annually to an individual or
small team for their outstanding contributions to communications
technology. It is named in honor of Eric E. Sumner, 1991 IEEE President,
who retired as Vice President, Operations Planning, AT&T Bell Laboratories
after a long and distinguished career.
Christophe Senot, Makram Bouzid, Dimitre Kostadinov, Jerôme Picault,
Cédric Bernier and Armen Aghasaryan won the best paper award for
“Analysis of strategies for building user group profiles” at UMAP 2010. User
Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP) is the primary conference for
people who are working on systems that adapt to their individual users, or to
groups of users. (UMAP papers undergo thorough review, and the conference has a
low paper acceptance rate. UMAP is the successor to the biennial User
Modeling and Adaptive Hypermedia conferences that were merged in 2009. It is
organized in cooperation with ACM SIGIR, SIGCHI and SIGART and SIGWEB.)
Gordon Wilfong has been selected for the paper "an analysis of BGP
convergence properties," co-written with Timothy Griffin for the 2010
SigcommTest-of-Time Award. The Sigcomm Test-of-Time award recognizes papers
published 10 to 12 years in the past in Computer Communication Review, or any
SIGCOMM sponsored or co-sponsored conference, that are deemed to be
outstanding, with content that offers a vibrant and useful contribution
today.
Thierry Klein, Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, won the "Technologist of the
Year" Award from the World Vendors Award for the Alzete venture.
Rod Alferness won the OSA Leadership Award for his broad and
inspiring leadership in terms of governing premier societies, chairing
prestigious conferences, leading the research arm of Bell Laboratories, and
spear-heading the multi-institutional MONET consortium.
Willard Boyle and George Smith received a U.S. House of
Representatives "Resolution Letter of Congratulations" for being awarded the
Nobel Prize in physics.
Sharad Jaiswal has been recognized as one of India Top 35 Innovators
Under 35 Years for his contribution to the Mango small-cell architecture for
taking content delivery to the mobile masses.
Carl Nuzman was selected to participate in the German-American
Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. 30 US engineers, ages 30-45 are selected
each year, and 30 German counterparts. Location is Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Tennessee. The topics this year are: Lasers: the Final Frontier,
Rapid Vaccine Manufacturing, Modern Power System Grid Control, and Novel
Concepts for Automobiles.
Bell Labs India was selected to the list of 2009 IT Innovators by
NASSCOM based on a submission of Teleport from BL India. Nasscom is the premier
organization that represents & sets the tone for public policy for the
Indian software industry. The objective of the Innovation Initiative is to
encourage innovative practices across IT-ITES Industry & provide support by
developing an ecosystem conducive to fostering innovativeness, technological
advancement & creation of IP.
Alcatel-Lucent won the FTTH Council’s Innovation Award for its 10G
gigabit passive optical network (GPON) prototype in the “Technological and
Technical Innovation” category. Bell Labs Fixed Access Domain in Murray Hill
and Stuttgart designed the optical front-end for the 10/2.5 G TDMA transmission
and first prototype of the FPGA for the ONU.
Randy Giles was elected member of the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) for contributions to advanced lightwave communication
networks including erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, fiber Bragg grating-based
subsystems, and MEMs crossconnect.
Vishy Poosala won the Excellence in Innovation Award at the 3rd
International India Innovation Summit 2010for his distinguished contribution to
Innovation.
Sébastien Bigo has received the Prix Chereau-Lavet for his work on
"high bit rate optical transmission" and the prize is in recognition of a
"constant inventive approach, ensuring renown technical and societal
impact".
David Neilson was named a2010 IEEE Fellow for his
contributions to optical switching technologies for telecommunication
networks.
Randy Giles received the IEEE Photonics Society/OSA 2010 - John
Tyndall Award for his seminal contributions to advanced lightwave
communications networks including erbium-doped fiber amplifiers, fiber Bragg
grating-based subsystems, and MEMs crossconnects.
James West and Gerhard Sessler received the Benjamin Franklin
Medal in Electrical Engineering for their invention/development of the first
practical electret microphone, which can inexpensively be made small enough to
fit into cellular phones, digital cameras, and other portable devices.
Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith were awarded the 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics for their invention and development of the
charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology that transforms patterns of light
into useful digital information. CCD technology is the basis for many forms of
modern imaging, and is widely used in devices as diverse as digital cameras,
video cameras, and bar code readers as well as in security monitoring, medical
endoscopy, modern astronomy and video conferencing.
Al Cho, together with Professor Leonid Keldysh of Russia, were
awarded the 2009 RUSNANOPRIZE in the field of Nano Electronics for the
innovation “semiconductor superstructures and the technology of molecular beam
epitaxy.” A prize will also go to the RIBER company of France that
commercialized the MBE growth machine. This is the first time the prize will be
awarded not only for nanotechnology scientific discoveries and innovations but
for their application to mass production.
Dor Skuler, general manager of mobile security in Alcatel-Lucent's
enterprise business group, was named as one of the Global Telecoms Business
publication’s ‘Forty under Forty’ leading young executives in the telecoms
industry. Skuler incubated and commercialized the OmniAccess 3500 Nonstop
Laptop Guardian.
Andrew Chraplyvy and Robert Tkach of Bell
Labswere awarded the 2009 Marconi Prize for their insights
into how information is transmitted over optical networks and for finding
innovative ways to significantly increase the speed and capacity of optical
fiber communications systems. This is the seventh time that Bell Labs
scientists have won the Marconi Prize.
Reinaldo Valenzuela has been given the 2010 IEEE Eric E. Sumner
Award for his pioneering contributions to multi antennas systems and microwave
propagation. The IEEE bestows the Sumner Award annually to an individual or
small team for their outstanding contributions to communications
technology. It is named in honor of Eric E. Sumner, 1991 IEEE President,
who retired as Vice President, Operations Planning, AT&T Bell Laboratories
after a long and distinguished career.
Chris Doerr received the IEEE William Streifer Award for pioneering
research on highly functional integrated optical circuits based on arrayed
waveguide grating routers and their implementation in advanced optical
networks.
Rene-Jean Essiambre, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell
Labs and Yves Baeyens, Technical Manager, Bell Labs have been selected
to take part in the esteemed National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) 15th
annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.
Bell Labs TIGER receives the 2009 Celtic Excellence Award. The TIGER
project team was awarded the Celtic excellence award for their outstanding
achievements in the Metro Ethernet market.
Jeong Kim received the 2009 Chinese Institute of Engineering's
Lifetime Achievement Award for his record of significant contributions to
academia, public service and industry, and personal achievements.
Holger Claussen, Lester Ho, and Florian Pivit received the 2008
Eckermann-Telecommunications Journal of Australia (TJA) Prize for their work on
improving radio access network power efficiency through the use of joint small
cell and macrocell deployments. They also received an Alcatel-Lucent Corporate
Social Responsibility Award in 2008.
Gerard Foschini and Bob Tkach were elected as new members at
the 2009 National Academy of Engineering. Gerard Foschini was elected for
contributions to the science and technology of wireless communications with
multiple antennas for transmission and receiving, and Bob Tkach for
contributions to research and development of terabit/second optical-fiber
communication systems and networks.
Chris Doerr. 2009 OSA Fellow for his significant contributions to
planar lightwave/photonic integrated circuits.
Al Cho. 2009 U.S. National Inventors Hall of Fame for his MBE
(molecular beam epitaxi) invention.
Jingdong Chen. 2009 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper for
“New Insights into the Noise Reduction Wiener Filter."
Yves Baeyens, Andy Chraplyvy, Alan Gnauck, Anwar Walid, Peter Winzer and
Thomas Woo. 2009 IEEE Fellows.
Yves Chabal and Krishan Raghavachari. 2009 APS Davisson-Germer
Prize. On fundamental surface infrared spectroscopy and quantum chemical
methods to silicon surface reactions important in microelectronics.
Dr. Randy Giles, Director of Optical Subsystems and Advanced
Photonics at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, and Prof. Emmanuel Desurvire,
formerly of Bell Labs, Columbia University, Alcatel and currently Director of
the Physics Research Group at Thales Research & Technology were selected as
members of a finalist team for the 2008 Millennium Technology Prize. They
are being recognized for their historic contributions to telecommunications
resulting from their pioneering research of the Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifier
(EDFA) and its use in fiber optic transmission systems which made possible the
high-capacity optical fiber networks that today power the Internet and
communications networks around the globe. Read the press
release.
Seiji Ogawa, a retired Bell Labs researcher, is the
winner of the 2007 ISMAR Prize, given by the International Society of Magnetic
Resonance. His seminal work in functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) was done in the Biological Computation Research department at Bell Labs
in the late 1980s.
Richart Slusher, director of Quantum Information Research and recent
Bell Labs Fellow, is the 2006 recipient of the Max Born Award, presented by the
Optical Society of America (OSA). The award honors Max Born and is presented
annually to a person who has made outstanding contributions to theoretical or
experimental physical optics.
Herwig Kogelnik, Bell Labs Adjunct Photonics Systems Director, was
awarded the 2006 Okawa prize by the Okawa Foundation for Information and
Telecommunications of Japan. Dr. Kogelnik was recognized for his seminal
contributions to the field of optical communications.
Hock Ng, a Bell Labs materials scientist focusing on
gallium-nitride-related semiconductors, was selected to receive two Young
Investigator Awards -- the Charles W. Tobias Young Investigator Award of The
Electrochemical Society and the first annual Young Investigator Award from the
North American Molecular Beam Epitaxy (NAMBE) board.
Aref Chowdhury, a Bell Labs researcher in the field of optical
physics, was selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) as one of
eighty-one engineers from around the United States to participate in the
12th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium.
Ashok Maliakal, a Bell Labs materials scientist studying design and
development of nano-structured organic and hybrid materials for advanced
electronic applications, was named as one of Technology Review magazine´s TR35,
a list of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. Maliakal
continues the trend of including at least one Bell Labs scientist among the
winners since the list´s inception in 1999.
Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith, both former
researchers at Bell Labs, received one of the highest honors in engineering,
the 2006 National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize,
for their invention and development of the charge-coupled device, or CCD. This
award honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly impacted
society. CCD imaging, which transforms patterns of light into useful
electrical information, is the basis for many forms of modern imaging. Today
the most noticeable impact is its universal use in digital cameras, video
cameras, bar code readers, and image scanners such as copy machines. Both Boyle
and Smith were members of the Semiconductor Components Division at Bell Labs
and began their seminal work on the CCD in 1969.
Vladimir Aksyuk was chosen among Technology Review
magazine's 2005 TR35, an elite list of top innovators under the age of 35.
Aksyuk is the sixth researcher chosen from Bell Labs since the list's inception
in 1999, continuing the proud tradition of Bell Labs' inclusion each year the
list has been published. Aksyuk's significant contributions to the field
of optical microsystems, specifically research and development of novel optical
and other MEMS (micro-electro mechanical systems) devices, earned him this
honor.
Rod Alferness received the 2005 IEEE Photonics Award, which is
sponsored by IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society to honor outstanding
achievements in the field of photonics. Alferness was honored for
“seminal contributions to enabling photonics technologies and for visionary
leadership in their application to networks and systems.” Photonic technologies
generally include lasers, optical switches and other network elements that
transmit signals in the form of light over optical fibers.
Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs researcher and co-Inventor of Unix,
received the 2005 Industrial Research Institute Achievement Award.
Established in 1973, the award honors outstanding accomplishments in individual
creativity and innovation that contribute broadly to the development of
industry and to the benefit of society. Ritchie joined Bell Labs in 1968,
focusing his research on the design of computer languages and operating
systems. After contributing to the MULTICS time-shared operating system in the
1960's, he and Bell Labs researcher Ken Thompson created UNIX® — the operating
system of most large Internet servers, businesses and universities, and a major
part of academic and industrial research in operating systems — in 1969. Later
Ritchie designed and implemented the C Language for use on the UNIX® operating
system. Prized for its efficiency, C has since spread to many other operating
systems and is one of the most widely used programming languages for both
system software and applications. In addition to this award, Ritchie has
been jointly awarded the ACM Turing Award, the IEEE Emmanuel Piore Award, the
Richard W. Hamming Medal, and the U.S. Medal of Technology. Ritchie is a member
of the National Academy of Engineering.
Gee Rittenhouse was selected by the U.S. National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) as one of 88 bright young engineers invited to participate in
the 11th annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium. Rittenouse developed
high-speed circuits for optical networking and made numerous contributions,
including publications and patents to the field of wireless systems and
circuits. He also was one of the driving forces behind the creation of the
Wireless Emergency Response Team (WERT), an industry-wide effort to locate
survivors of 9/11 at Ground Zero through signals from their wireless
telephones.
Richard Frenkiel and Joel Engel, former researchers at Bell Labs,
were selected to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Consumer
Electronics Hall of Fame. The CES Hall of Fame honors individuals worldwide
whose leadership and innovation have played a significant role in shaping the
consumer electronics industry. Frankiel and Engel were cited as the key
researchers in the development of the Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS)
standard, which was adopted by the FCC as the country's first wireless phone
standard. It also was the world's first wireless phone standard. For their
achievement, they were jointly awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1994
by the president of the United States. In 1987, Frenkiel, Engel and their
colleague William Jakes were honored with the Alexander Graham Bell Medal of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for their work on
cellular radio.
Sem Borst, a member of technical staff in the Mathematics of
Networks and Systems Department, won an IEEE Infocom 2003 Best Paper Award for
his paper on scheduler modeling. The paper, "User-Level Performance of
Channel-Aware Scheduling Algorithms in Wireless Data Networks," gives an
analytical method for evaluating the performance experienced by users in
wireless data systems. Borst was honored for the significance, depth, and
originality of his paper at the Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and
Communications Societies held in San Francisco in April.
Andrew Chraplyvy, director of the Lightwave Systems Research
department at Bell Labs, received the Optical Society of America's 2003 John
Tyndall Award at the international Optical Fiber Communications (OFC)
conference in March. Chraplyvy was honored for "pioneering research on optical
fiber non-linearities and their dispersion management, and leading
wavelength-division-multiplexed fiber transmission systems beyond
terabit/second capacities." The award, co-sponsored by the Optical Society of
America and the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, is named for the
19th-century British scientist who first demonstrated the phenomenon of total
internal reflection. It recognizes individuals who have made significant or
continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber-optic technology.
Gerard Foschini, Wireless Communication research, won a 2002 Thomas
Alva Edison Patent Award. The honor, given by the Research and Development
Council of New Jersey is bestowed upon New Jersey men and women who have
changed the world with their inventions. Foschini also was cited by the
American Society for Information Science and Technology — an institute that
tracks scientific citations — for being in the top 0.5 of 1 percent of
publishing researchers. (November 2002).
Steven Golowich and Scott Vander Wiel, research statisticians in the
Fundamental Mathematics department, won the Outstanding Statistical Application
Prize from the American Statistical Association, along with former Bell Labs
researcher James Landwehr, for their work on modeling bandwidth in optical
fiber communications.
Elsa Reichmanis, director of materials research at Bell Labs, was
elected president of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for 2003, a
161,000-member national professional organization.
Dennis Ritchie, distinguished member of technical staff in the
Computing Sciences Research department, is one of the recipients of the 2003
Harold Pender Award, the highest honor bestowed by the University of
Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He shares the award
with retired colleague Kenneth Thompson. The award honors the
world-renowned computer scientists for their pioneering accomplishments at Bell
Labs in the development of the UNIX® operating system in 1969, and the C
programming language two years later. Ritchie and Thompson have
received several other prestigious awards for their pioneering work, including
the National Medal of Technology, which was presented to them by President
Clinton in 1998 and the Turing Award from the Association of Computing
Machinery in 1983. Both men have also been elected to the National Academy of
Engineering.
Wim Sweldens, Bell Labs Computing Sciences Research vice president,
received the 2003 Wavelet Pioneer Award for co-inventing next-generation
wavelets with former Bell Labs employee Ingrid Daubechies. The International
Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) presented him the award during its
Independent Component Analyses, Wavelets and Neural Network Conference held in
April in Orlando, Florida.
George Arnold, former Alcatel-Lucent Standards and Intellectual
Property vice president, is currently the chair of the American National
Standards Institute (ANSI) board of directors. Arnold, who still serves
Alcatel-Lucent as a consultant on standards strategy and intellectual property
matters, has in the past served as vice-chair of the ANSI board; chair of
ANSI's International Committee; and member of its National Issues, Finance and
Executive committees.
William Baker, former president of Bell Labs, was given a lifetime
achievement award by the Marconi Foundation for his technological vision and
his role as "a diplomat of science." This is the second time in its history
that the foundation has given a lifetime achievement award; the previous winner
was Claude Shannon, who developed information theory while working at Bell Labs
in the late 1940s. Baker was president of Bell Labs from 1973 to 1979 and
oversaw the development of the world's first fiber optic communications system.
During his tenure, Bell Labs scientists developed the C programming language
and won two Nobel Prizes in Physics. Baker had joined Bell Labs in 1939; from
1955 to 1973, he was vice president of research, with overall responsibility
for all Bell Labs research programs. He retired in 1980 as chairman of the
board of Bell Labs.
Federico Capasso, former vice president of Physics Research at Bell
Labs, was awarded the Duddell Medal and Prize by the London-based Institute of
Physics (IOP). Sir Peter Williams, president of the IOP, presented Capasso the
award for "contributions to engineering materials and solid-state devices, in
particular the invention and demonstration of the quantum cascade laser." The
Duddell Medal and Prize, is one of the most prestigious awards in Europe for
work in physics. (January 2002) Capasso was also awarded the 2004 Arthur L.
Schawlow Prize in Laser Science, endowed by the NEC Corporation and on behalf
of the American Physical Society (APS), for his "contributions to the invention
and demonstration of the quantum cascade laser and the elucidation of its
physics, which bridges quantum electronics, solid-state physics, and materials
science." Capasso is now a Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and
Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Harvard
University. (December 2003)
Gerard Holzmann, former director of Bell Labs' Computing Principles
Research department, has been selected to receive a 2003 Thomas Alva Edison
Patent Award for work performed when he was with Bell Labs. Holzmann shares the
award with collaborators and former Bell Labs scientists Ken Thompson and Phil
Winterbottom for an invention called "Method and Apparatus for Testing Event
Driven Software." The invention has been used to test the flight software for
NASA's Mars Pathfinder and Deep Space 1 missions and will be used in future
launches for comet exploration. The award will be presented later this fall.
Holzmann is currently principal computer scientist in NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in its laboratory for Reliable Software. Holzmann also received the
prestigious Software System Award from the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM), the world's oldest professional computer association. Holzmann joined
previous Bell Labs recipients Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, the developers
of UNIX, and John M. Chambers, developer of the S System. Holzmann was cited
for his software program called SPIN for having "made advanced theoretical
verification methods applicable to large and highly complex software systems."
(April 2002)
Cherry Murray, Bell Labs senior vice president of Physical Sciences
Research, was named one of "The 50 Most Important Women in Science" by Discover
magazine. The publication cited Murray for her leadership of people, and the
development of research strategy for Bell Labs Research. She is known in the
scientific community for her pioneering work on colloidal systems — suspensions
of small particles that don't settle or dissolve in a liquid. (November
2002)
Arun Netravali, former Alcatel-Lucent chief scientist and Bell Labs
president, was presented an Excellence Award by the U.S. Pan Asian American
Chamber of Commerce in Washington on May 7 during the CelebrAsian 2003
Conference. Excellence Awards honor Asian-American achievers for their
contributions to America, and American corporations and government agencies for
their commitment to Asian-American suppliers. Three days later, Netravali
received a 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from Rice University. Netravali
earned master's ('69) and doctorate ('71) degrees in electrical engineering
from Rice in Houston, Texas. In April, Level3 Communications named Netravali to
its Board of Directors. In May 2002, President George W. Bush announced the
selection of Netravali, as one of the recipients of the U.S. National Medal of
Technology. The medal, which is the nation's highest honor for achievement in
technology, recognizes groundbreaking contributions that help commercialize
technologies, create jobs, improve productivity, and stimulate the nation's
growth and development. Netravali was cited for his "pioneering contributions
that transformed TV from analog to digital, enabling numerous integrated
circuits, systems, and services in broadcast TV, CATV, DBS, HDTV, and
multimedia over the Internet; and for technical expertise and leadership, which
have kept Bell Labs at the forefront in communications technology."
Dan Stanzione, retired Bell Labs president and Alcatel-Lucent chief
operating officer, has been appointed to Continuum Photonics' board of
directors. Bell Labs Chief Technical Officer Bob Martin is an advisor to
Continuum, a five-year-old start up that is developing an optical switch based
on electroactive ceramics. Stanzione served as Bell Labs' eighth president from
1995-1999.
