Bell Labs VP Research to Receive Prestigious Japanese Computer and Communication Award.

MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 22, 1997--Arun Netravali, vice president of research at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs, will receive Japan's distinguished C&C Prize on Tuesday, October 28. He is the 10th Bell Labs researcher to receive this honor.

Netravali will share the 1997 C&C Prize with Barry Haskell, formerly of Bell Labs and now a technical manager with AT&T Labs.

This prestigious award recognizes individuals who are pioneers in the fields of computers and communications technologies, hence the name "C&C." It is presented annually by the Foundation for C&C Promotion in Tokyo, and consists of a certificate, a medal and 10 million yen (approximately $85,000).

Established in 1985 by the NEC Corporation, the non- profit Foundation for C&C Promotion fosters growth in the electronics industry by encouraging and supporting research and development activities. The Foundation also provides financial assistance and grants to researchers.

Netravali will accept the award for his pioneering contributions in digital image and video compression technology. His research work has been extensively applied to compression schemes for single images and image sequences in communications, computing and digital archiving. These schemes are formalized in industry standards by the Joint Photography Experts Group (JPEG) and the Motion Picture Experts Group (MPEG).

Products and services made possible as a result of accomplishments by Netravali and his colleagues include video phones, desktop video, Internet video and video conferencing and multimedia groupware, as well as digital set-top boxes used in digital network, cable and satellite television.

Netravali and his colleagues have also made key contributions to the technology and specifications for high definition television (HDTV). For work in digital television as part of the HDTV Grand Alliance, Lucent recently received a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. This achievement represents Lucent's technological contributions in helping to develop the new U.S. standard for over-the-air digital television broadcasting.

Lucent Technologies (NYSE:LU) designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, consumer and business telephone systems and microelectronics components. Bell Laboratories is the research and development arm of the company. For more information about Lucent Technologies, headquartered at Murray Hill, N.J., visit our web site at http://www.lucent.com.

Past Bell Labs Recipients of C&C Prize

Nine Bell Labs scientists and engineers have previously been honored with the C&C Prize. They include:

1986 - Izuo Hayashi and Morton B. Panish - for conception and development of the first room- temperature continuous-wave semiconductor injection laser with double heterostructure;

1988 - John S. Mayo, Eric E. Sumner, and M. Robert Aaron - for pioneering contributions to establishing a basic technology for digital communications by developing the world's first practical commercial high-speed digital communication system, T-1;

1989 - Dennis M. Ritchie and Kenneth L. Thompson - for creating UNIX and C-Language;

1991 - Jack M. Sipress - for leadership in the development of high-speed digital fiberguide systems that span the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, thereby giving global digital connectivity over high-capacity cables;

1995 - Alfred Y. Cho - for pioneering development of the Molecular Beam Epitaxy crystal growth process, a technology which is revolutionizing high-performance optoelectronics and electronics for computers and communications.

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