G. David Forney, Jr. is currently Bernard M. Gordon Adjunct Professor at MIT. He received his undergraduate
degree from Princeton in 1961 and his doctorate from MIT in 1965, both in electrical
engineering. In 1965 he joined the Codex Corporation, a data communications start-up,
and in 1970 became an officer and Director. After 1977, when Motorola, Inc. acquired
Codex, he served as a vice president of Motorola until his retirement in 1999.
His career has centered on information theory and its applications in data communications,
particularly in high-speed telephone-line modems. Dr. Forney has held many positions
with the IEEE Information Theory Society, including President (1992) and Editor
of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (1970-1973). He has received the
1992 IEEE Edison Medal, the 1995 IEEE Information Theory Society Claude E. Shannon
Award, the 1996 Christopher Columbus International Communications Award, and the
1997 Marconi International Fellowship. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in
1973, a member of the National Academy of Engineering (U.S.A.) in 1983, a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1993, an honorary
member of the Popov Society (Russia) in 1994, a Fellow of the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences in 1998, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences
(U.S.A.) in 2003.
Jerrold A. Heller received the B.S.E.E. from Syracuse University in 1963 and the M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964 and 1967, respectively.
After completing his studies, Dr. Heller joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory
in Pasadena, California where he was Senior Scientist in the Communication Research
Section conducting research in digital communications for satellite and deep space
channels.
Dr. Heller co-founded the Linkabit Corporation in September 1969. Over the subsequent
17 years, he held a variety of positions with Linkabit, including Vice-President
of Engineering, Vice-President of Advanced Products, and Executive Vice-President.
At Linkabit, he led the development of bandwidth and energy efficient error correction
coding and modulation techniques and equipment for satellite communications. Later,
Dr. Heller initiated and led the satellite television encryption and access control
activity at Linkabit, developing what later became known as the VideoCipher television
access control system. This system became the de facto standard used for the satellite
transmission of cable TV programming to local cable companies and private homes.
Beginning in 1986, Dr. Heller was Executive Vice-President of the VideoCipher
Division of General Instrument Corporation. He was responsible for new business
and technology development. In this position, he led the development of DigiCipher,
the first digital television compression and transmission system. DigiCipher has
been adopted by cable programmers and operators to provide digital TV to homes
around the world. He also led development of the DigiCipher high definition television
system, major elements of which were adopted for the U.S. terrestrial HDTV standard.
His activities in digital HDTV, along with those of his colleagues at General
Instrument, are chronicled in a 1997 book,
Defining Vision, written by Joel Brinkley.
Dr. Heller has several issued and pending patents and has authored many published
technical papers in the areas of digital communications, error correction coding,
data encryption and digital video compression. He has received a number of awards,
including two Emmy awards, in 1986 and 1996, from the Academy of Television Arts
and Sciences for outstanding achievement in engineering development. The first
Emmy was for the development of the VideoCipher television access control system;
the second for the development of the DigiCipher digital television compression
system. He is the recipient of the 1998 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics
Award, "for visionary engineering leadership in the development of digital television
for broadcast, cable and satellite applications."
Currently residing in Encinitas, California, Dr. Heller continues his involvement
in the digital media and communications industries as a consultant and advisor
to new ventures.
William C. Lindsey is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA, and serves as Chairman of the Board at LinCom Corporation, Los
Angeles, CA, which he founded in 1974. He has been a frequent consultant to government
and industry. He has published numerous papers on varied topics in communication
theory and holds several patents. He has written three books:
Synchronization Systems in Communication and Control (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1972);
Telecommunication Systems Engineering, co-authored with M. K. Simon (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973; revised
edition, Dover Publications, 1991);
Digital Communication Techniques: Signal Design and Detection, co-authored with M. K. Simon and S. M. Hinedi (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 1995). He is also co-author of
Phase-Locked Loops and Their Applications (IEEE Press Book). Dr. Lindsey is a member of the National Academy of Engineering
(NAE). He serves on Commission C, Signals and Systems of the International Scientific
Radio Union (URSI), and was Vice President of Technical Affairs of the IEEE Communications
Society. He also served as the second chairman of the Communication Society and
is a former Editor of ComSoc. Currently, he serves as an editor for the Journal
on Communications and Networks.
Robert J. McEliece was born in Washington, DC, in 1942. He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
mathematics from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1964 and
1967, respectively, and attended Trinity College, Cambridge University, Cambridge,
U.K., during 1964-1965.
From 1963 to 1978, he was with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute
of Technology, where he was Supervisor of the Information Processing Group, Communications
Research Section, from 1971 to 1978. From 1978 to 1982, he was a Professor of
Mathematics and a Research Professor at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University
of Illinois, UrbanaÐChampaign. Since 1982, he has been on the faculty at the California
Institute of Technology, where he is now the Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical
Engineering. From 1990 to 1999, he served as Executive Officer for Electrical
Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He has been a Consultant
in the Communications Research Section of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since
1978. His research interests include deep-space communication, communication networks,
coding theory, and discrete mathematics. Dr. McEliece is a member of the National
Academy of Engineering.
Jim K. Omura was born on 8 September 1940 in San Jose, California. He obtained B.S. (1962)
and M.S. (1963) degrees from MIT and a Ph.D. (1966) degree from Stanford, all
in Electrical Engineering.
After three years with the Stanford Research Institute, Dr. Omura joined the
engineering faculty at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1969. His
early academic work was on theoretical performance bounds in Information Theory
and the application of mathematical programming techniques to Communication Systems.
In 1978 he co-authored the textbook Principles of Digital Communication and Coding with Andrew Viterbi. Dr. Omura also worked on optimal designs of Communication
Systems with emphasis on Spread Spectrum Communication Systems. Together with
Marvin Simon, Barry Levitt, and Robert Scholtz, Dr. Omura co-authored the three
volume books titled Spread Spectrum Communications Handbook. During his academic career he published over 100 technical papers and became
an IEEE Fellow in 1981.
In 1984 Dr. Omura co-founded Cylink Corporation in Sunnyvale, California. Cylink
became a leading supplier of commercial data encryption systems for private data
networks. Serving as Chairman and CTO of Cylink, Dr. Omura and his engineering
team developed the first 1024-bit public-key commercial encryption chip and successfully
used this technology for securing large commercial data networks. Dr. Omura also
designed some of the first commercial spread spectrum data radios for the unlicensed
ISM bands. This Cylink radio technology led to the first spread spectrum coreless
telephones which were licensed to Uniden. These direct sequence spread radios
were the precursors to todayÕs widely used WiFi wireless access radios. During
this commercial application period of his career, Dr. Omura developed over 20
patents and became a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1997. He
is the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal.
Today Dr. Omura is the Technology Strategist for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
and advisor to several commercial companies in the wireless market.
Roberto Padovani is executive vice president and chief technology officer for QUALCOMM Incorporated.
He was involved in the initial design, development and standardization of IS-95
CDMA systems. For the past 15 years, Dr. Padovani has been involved in the research
and development of digital communication systems with particular emphasis on cellular
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems. His research and inventions in this
field have led to the worldwide standardization and commercialization of CDMA
for second and third-generation cellular systems. More recently he has led the
design and development of CDMA2000 1xEV-DO, an IP-based high-speed wide area data
network. In 1984 Dr. Padovani joined M/A-COM Linkabit in San Diego where he was
involved in the design and development of satellite communication systems, secure
video systems, and error-correcting coding equipment. In 1986 he joined QUALCOMM
Incorporated. Dr. Padovani holds over 50 patents on wireless CDMA systems. He
has published numerous technical papers in the digital communications field and
was the co-recipient of the 1991 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Best Paper
Award for a fundamental paper on the capacity of CDMA cellular systems. He is
an IEEE Fellow. Dr. Padovani received a Laureate degree from the University of
Padova, Italy and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, all in electrical and computer engineering.
Robert A. Scholtz was born in Lebanon, OH, on January 26, 1936. He is a Distinguished Alumnus
of the University of Cincinnati, where, as a Sheffield Scholar, he received the
E.E. degree in 1958. He was a Hughes Masters and Doctoral Fellow while obtaining
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from University of Southern
California (USC), Los Angeles, in 1960, and Stanford University in 1964, respectively.
In 1963, he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California, where
he is now Professor of Electrical Engineering. He remained part-time at Hughes
Aircraft Company until 1978, working on missile radar signal processing problems.
From 1984 to 1989, he served as Director of USCÕs Communication Sciences Institute.
He was Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Systems Department from 1994 to
2000. In 1996, as part of the Integrated Media Systems Center effort, he was instrumental
in forming the Ultra-wideband Radio Laboratory (UltRa Lab) to provide facilities
for the design and test of impulse radio systems and other novel high-bandwidth
high-data-rate wireless mobile communication links. He has consulted for the LinCom
Corporation, Axiomatix, Inc., the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Technology Group,
TRW, Pulson Communications (Time Domain Corporation), and Qualcomm, as well as
various government agencies. His research interests include communication theory,
synchronization, signal design, coding, adaptive processing, and pseudonoise generation,
and their application to communications and radar systems.
Prof. Scholtz co-authored
Spread Spectrum Communications with M. K. Simon, J. K. Omura, and B. K. Levitt, and
Basic Concepts in Information Theory and Coding with S. W. Golomb and R. E. Peile. He has been General Chairman of five workshops
in the area of communications, including most recently the Ultrawideband Radio
Workshop held in May 1998, and has been an active participant on NSF panels and
in research planning workshops of the U.S. Army Research Office. Dr. Scholtz was
elected to the grade of Fellow in the IEEE, "for contributions to the theory and
design of synchronizable codes for communications and radar systems" in 1980.
In 1983, he received the Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award for the historical
article, "The Origins of Spread Spectrum Communications;" this same paper received
the 1984 Donald G. Fink Prize Award given by the IEEE. Other awards for Prof.
Scholtz's papers include the 1992 Senior Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Society,
Ellersick Award for the best unclassified paper at Milcom 1997, and the best student
paper award from the NetWorld+Interop'97
In 2001, he received the Military Communications Conference Award for Technical
Achievement. He has been an active member of the IEEE for many years, manning
important organizational posts, including Finance Chairman for the 1977 National
Telecommunications Conference, Program Chairman for the 1981 International Symposium
on Information Theory, and IEEE Board of Governors positions for the IEEE Information
Theory Group and the Communications Society.
Paul H. Siegel received the S.B. degree in mathematics in 1975 and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics
in 1979, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.
He held a Chaim Weizmann Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Courant Institute, New
York University. He was with the IBM Research Division in San Jose, CA, from 1980
to 1995. He joined the faculty of the School of Engineering at the University
of California, San Diego in July 1995, where he is currently Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering. He is affiliated with the California Institute of Telecommunications
and Information Technology, the Center for Wireless Communications, and the Center
for Magnetic Recording Research, where he currently serves as Director. His primary
research interests lie in the areas of information theory and communications,
particularly coding and modulation techniques, with applications to digital data
storage and transmission. He holds 17 patents in the area of coding and detection.
Prof. Siegel was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory
Society from 1991 to 1996. He served as Co-Guest Editor of the May 1991 Special
Issue on Coding for Storage Devices of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory,
served the same Transactions as Associate Editor for Coding Techniques from 1992
to 1995, and now serves as Editor-in-Chief. He was also Co-Guest Editor of the
May/September 2001 two-part issue on The Turbo Principle: From Theory to Practice
of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. He was corecipient, with
R. Karabed, of the 1992 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award and shared
the 1993 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award with
B. Marcus and J.K. Wolf. He was named a Master Inventor at IBM Research in 1994.
He is also a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Bernard Sklar has 50 years of electrical engineering experience at companies that include Hughes
Aircraft, Litton Industries, and The Aerospace Corporation. At Aerospace, he helped
develop the MILSTAR satellite system and was the principal architect for EHF Satellite
Data Link Standards. He is currently the head of Advanced Systems at Communications
Engineering services. He has taught engineering courses at several universities
including the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Southern
California and has presented numerous training programs throughout the world.
He has published and presented many technical papers. He is the recipient of the
1984 Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society for his tutorial series
on digital communications, and he is the author of the book,
Digital Communications: Fundamentals and Applications (2nd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2001). His academic credentials include a B.S. in math
and science from the University of Michigan; an M.S. in electrical engineering
from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York; and a Ph.D. in engineering
from the University of California, Los Angeles.
David N. C. Tse received the B.A.Sc. degree in systems design engineering from the University
of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical
engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1991
and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1995, he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical
Staff with AT&T Bell Laboratories.
Since 1995, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences, University of California at Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor.
His research interests are in information theory, wireless communications and
networking. Dr. Tse received a 1967 NSERC four-year graduate fellowship from the
government of Canada in 1989, a NSF CAREER award in 1998, the Best Paper Awards
at the Infocom 1998 and Infocom 2001 conferences, the Erlang Prize in 2000 from
the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and the IEEE Communications and Information
Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2001. He is currently an Associate Editor
for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
Sergio Verdú was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on August 15, 1958. He received the
telecommunications engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain, in 1980 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984. He is a Professor of Electrical
Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. He has held visiting appointments
at the Australian National University, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology,
the University of Tokyo, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Mathematical
Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley.
He is the author of
Multiuser Detection (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Prof.Verdú is a recipient
of several paper awards including the IEEE Donald Fink Paper Award, a Golden Jubilee
Paper Award from the Information Theory Society, the 1998 Information Theory Society
Paper Award, and the 2002 Leonard G. Abraham Prize Award from the IEEE Communications
Society. He also received a Millennium Medal from the IEEE and the 2000 Frederick
E. Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. He served
on the Board of Governors of the Information Theory Society from 1989 to 1999,
and was President of the Society in 1997. In addition to organizing several IEEE
Workshops on Information Theory, he was Co-Chair of the Program Committee of the
1998 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, and Co-Chair of the 2000
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. He served as an Associate
Editor for Shannon Theory of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He served
as Guest Editor of the 1998 Special Commemorative Issue of the IEEE Transactions
on Information Theory, reprinted as the IEEE Press volume "Information Theory:
Fifty Years of Discovery." He is currently Editor-in-Chief of
Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.
Jack Keil Wolf received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
in 1956, and the M.S.E., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton,
NJ, in 1957, 1958, and 1960, respectively.
He was a member of the Electrical Engineering Department at New York University
from 1963 to 1965, and the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn from 1965 to 1973.
He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from 1973 to 1975, and was Professor there
from 1973 to 1984. Since, 1984, he has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and a member of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research at the
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA. He is now the Stephen O. Rice
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds a part-time appointment
at Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego. His current interest is in signal processing for
storage systems.
From 1971 to 1972, Dr. Wolf was an NSF Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, and from 1979
to 1980 he held a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1993, he was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering. He was recipient of the 1990 E.H. Armstrong Achievement
Award of the IEEE Communications Society and was corecipient of the 1975 IEEE
Information Theory Group Paper Award for the paper "Noiseless Coding for Correlated
Information Sources" (co-authored with D. Slepian). He served on the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Group from 1970 to 1976 and was President
of the IEEE Information Theory Group in 1974. He served on the Board of Governors
of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 1980 to 1986. He was International
Chairman of Committee C of URSI from 1980 to 1983. He was the recipient of the
1998 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award, "for fundamental
contribution to multi-user communications and applications of coding theory to
magnetic data storage devices" and in May 2000, received a University of California,
San Diego Distinguished Teaching Award. He is the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Richard
W. Hamming Medal "for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of
information transmission and storage."
William W. Wu received the B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, the
M.S.E.E. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge,
and the Ph.D. degree from The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. He was
with the MIT Center for Space Research, Cambridge, MA. He then spent 12 years
at COMSAT, the first ten at COMSAT Laboratories as Technical Staff Member and
later as Project Manager for Communications Research, and the last two as the
Senior Scientist at the Corporate Headquarters responsible for advanced satellite
system architectures.
He was a Director at Stanford Telecom, Reston, VA. He was the Chief Scientist
at the International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (INTELSAT) for
11 years, where he was responsible for the initiation, selection, and monitoring
of R&D contracts significant to future satellite communications. He was the
Chief Architect for the high-speed INTELSAT TDMA Network Simulation Program. For
12 years, he was a part-time Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Electrical
Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He is currently the
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Consultare Technology Group, Bethesda,
MD, which consults in the satellite area and performs research and development
in the technology area. He has been invited to lecture and to give short courses
and seminars by 35 leading institutions around the world. He has written more
than 55 technical papers. He has received five patents with two pending. He is
the author of Elements of Digital Satellite Communications, vols. I and II (Rockville, MD: Computer Science). Both volumes won the Merit
Award in 1986 from the Society for Technical Communication. Dr. Wu was previously
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and is currently an Editor for the
International Journal of Satellite Communications. He has given tutorials and chaired 19 invited international and national technical
conferences. He was listed in Who's Who in the Frontier of Science and Technology. For five years, he was the Chairman from the Executive Organ for the CCITT
(now ITU-T) Study Group XVIII, which is responsible for setting the standards
for ISDN and ATM. Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the IEEE.
