Two Bell Labs Executives Win Top IEEE Awards.

Business/Technology Editors

MURRAY HILL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 4, 2001

Two scientists from Lucent Technologies' (NYSE: LU) Bell Labs have been awarded top honors by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for their significant contributions to the advancement of technology.

Herwig Kogelnik, adjunct photonics systems research vice president at Bell Labs, will receive the 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor, the IEEE's highest award, at a ceremony on June 23, 2001 in Jersey City, N.J. Arun Netravali, president of Bell Labs and Lucent's chief technology officer and chief network architect, will receive the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal at the same ceremony.

Kogelnik, a pioneer in the field of fiber optics, is cited for "fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems." The IEEE added that his work made lightwave communications systems more practical and cost-effective.

Kogelnik joined Bell Labs in 1961 and led the Coherent Optics Research Department from 1967 to 1976. He served as director of the Electronics Research Laboratory from 1976 to 1983 and as director of the Photonics Research Laboratory from 1983 to 1997.

Kogelnik is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 1994. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the 1984 Frederic Ives Medal of the OSA, the 1989 David Sarnoff Award of the IEEE, the 1990 Joseph Johann Ritter von Prechtl Medal from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and the 1991 Quantum Electronics Award from the IEEE Lasers and Electro Optics Society. He was elected Vice President of the OSA in 1987 and served as President in 1989. He was elected Honorary Fellow of St. Peter's College at Oxford University in 1992.

Kogelnik is currently working on photonics systems research to further advance the capacity of fiber transmission. His present research includes polarization effects and non-linear effects in fibers and suitable coding techniques.

IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal

Netravali shares this year's Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal with Thomas Huang, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Sponsored by Texas Instruments, where Jack Kilby developed the first integrated circuit, the award honors Huang and Netravali for their "pioneering and sustained contributions to image sequence processing and its applications to digital TV, to pattern recognition, and to computer animation."

Now responsible for research and development across all of Lucent, Netravali was a pioneer in the field of digital technology and led the development of high-definition television (HDTV) technology at Bell Labs. Netravali is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has received numerous awards and honors for his scientific and management achievements. In 1991, the IEEE awarded Netravali the most prestigious medal for communications, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell medal.

Netravali also received an Emmy award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1994 for his work on HDTV.

In 1991, he was inducted into the United States National Academy of Engineering, in which America's most accomplished engineers provide the leadership and expertise for numerous projects that are initiated by the President.

In 1997, he was awarded Japan's Computers and Communications prize, a prestigious award that recognizes pioneering contributions to computer science and communications technology.

Prior to joining Bell Labs in 1972, Netravali worked on problems relating to filtering, guidance and control of space shuttles for NASA. He has authored more than 170 technical papers, co-authored three books and holds more than 70 patents in the areas of computer networks, human interfaces to machines, picture processing and digital television. He received his bachelor's degree in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, India, and his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas.

With 30,000 employees in 30 countries, Bell Labs is the world's largest R&D organization dedicated to communications and the leading source of new communications technologies. Bell Labs has generated more than 28,000 patents since 1925 and has played a pivotal role in inventing or perfecting key communications technologies, including transistors, digital networking and signal processing, lasers and fiber-optic communications systems, communications satellites, cellular telephony, electronic switching of calls, touch-tone dialing, and modems. Bell Labs scientists have received six Nobel Prizes in Physics, nine U.S. Medals of Science and six U.S. Medals of Technology. For more information about Bell Labs, visit its Web site at www.bell-labs.com.

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