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Dr Robert (Bob) Lucky
Corporate Vice President (Retired) Telcordia Technologies, Inc.
Dr Robert Lucky is an engineer known worldwide for his writing and speaking about technology and society. He has led premier research laboratories in telecommunications over the last several decades, first at Bell Labs and then at Telcordia Technologies, where he was corporate vice president, applied research. In October, 2002 he retired from this position, and currently devotes much of his time to professional activities, including advisory boards, studies, and consulting
Early in his career Dr Lucky invented the adaptive equalizer, the key enabler for all high speed modems today. He co-authored a textbook on data communications that was the most cited reference in the field over the period of a decade. He is the author of many technical papers and of several books, including Silicon Dreams and Lucky Strikes Again. He has been the editor of a series of books in communications and of several technical journals. However, most engineers know him best because of the monthly columns he has written for Spectrum Magazine over the last twenty years offering philosophical and sometimes humorous observations on engineering, life, and technology.
Dr Lucky has also been on the advisory boards of about a dozen universities, has chaired the Scientific Advisory Board of the US Air Force, the Technical Advisory Board of the Federal Communications Commission, and the visiting board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He has been president of the Communications Society of the engineering institute (IEEE) and executive vice president of the IEEE.
Dr Lucky received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1961. He has since been honored with four honorary doctorates, and has received a number of major awards, including the prestigious Marconi Prize and the IEEE Edison Medal. He has been elected a fellow of the IEEE and to membership in the National Academy of Engineering, and to both the American and European Academies of Arts and Sciences. |
