Careers in Technology Fall Series 2024 - Victor B Lawrence, PhD 24 September 8pm EST
The Careers in Technology Fall Series begins on 24 September at 8pm Eastern Time with:
Professor Victor B Lawrence, PhD IEEE Fellow, National Inventors Hall of Fame.
In the introduction, Dr Lawrence’s preparation for a career at Bell Labs in Advanced Communication Technologies will be discussed. Then Dr Lawrence will conduct a detailed deep dive discussion of modern communications and networks. Some of Dr Lawrence’s technical experience includes: Key innovations of Bell Labs, artificial intelligence and machine learning, communications technologies, telecommunications, networks, patents, standards of today. Technology for the future. HDTV, Modems, Bluetooth: The importance of Standards.
Professor Victor B Lawrence, PhD will share his thoughts about the future influence of technology in society, and recommendations for navigating a technical career in this era.
Lawrence has received numerous awards and honorary degrees, including:
- 1981: Guillemin-Cauer Prize Award, IEEE Circuits & Systems Society
- 1984: J. Harry Karp Best Paper Award at Interface '84
- 1986: University of California at Berkeley, Chancellor's Distinguished Lecture Series
- 1987: Fellow of IEEE
- 1992: Fellow of AT&T Bell Labs
- 1995: Black Engineer for Outstanding Technical Contributions
- 1997: Emmy Award for HDTV Grand Alliance Standard
- 2000: IEEE Millennium Medal
- 2003: Member of National Academy of Engineering
- 2004: IEEE Award in International Communication
- 2007: IEEE Simon Ramo Medal for leadership in world-wide data communications networks
- 2012: Charter Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
- 2016: National Inventors Hall of Fame Inductee
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- Date: 24 Sep 2024
- Time: 08:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- Starts 20 August 2024 12:00 AM
- Ends 24 September 2024 12:00 AM
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Professor Victor B Lawrence, PhD IEEE Fellow
Careers in Technology Fall Series 2024 - 24 September - 8 pm EST / 7 pm CST
Dr Lawrence will discuss his preparation for a career at Bell Labs in Advanced Communication Technologies, many of the technologies he innovated, his experience as an inventor, the innovations of some of his colleagues, experience with Standards, experience as a Professor, his thoughts about the future influence of technology in society, and recommendations for navigating a career.
Biography:
Victor B Lawrence is a graduate of Achimota Secondary School and Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. During his 30 year career at Bell Laboratories, he made extensive and fundamental personal contributions to voice, data, audio and video communications with major contributions to gigabit photonic and wireless systems, signal processing, modem technology, ATM and IP switching and protocols, HDTV, Standards, speech, and audio coding and seminal contributions in digital signal processing for multimedia communications. He led numerous projects that significantly improved or enhanced every phase in the evolution of early low-speed and today's high-speed data communications. He became a Research Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Networked Systems (iNetS) at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he also served as Associate Dean. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2016.[1] He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the understanding of quantization effects in digital signal processors and the applications of digital signal processing to data communications.[2] His awards include Member of the National Academy of Engineering NAE, inductee of the National Inventors Hall of Fame, Emmy Award for HDTV, and IEEE Simon Ramo Gold Medal for systems engineering of worldwide networks and IEEE Field Award in International Communications, a Fellow of AT&T Bell Labs, and a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.[3] some excerpts from Wikipedia