Contact Center Solutions Industry News

[October 06, 2005]

Gordon E. Moore, Intel Founder, Will Accept Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award; Claude Berrou, Inventor of Turbo Codes, Will Receive 2005 Marconi Prize

NEW YORK --(Business Wire)-- Oct. 6, 2005 -- Marconi Society:

-- Awards will be presented on November 4, 2005, at the Waldorf Astoria in New York; Day-long Symposium on Moore's Law Precedes Gala Awards Ceremony

Gordon E. Moore, the chemical engineer who in 1968 co-founded Intel and is widely known for his 1965 prediction known as Moore's Law, will receive the Marconi Society Lifetime Achievement Award, and Professor Claude Berrou, co-inventor of turbo codes with Alain Glavieux at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne, will receive the 2005 Marconi Prize.

A historic day-long public symposium dedicated to the present and future implications of Moore's Law and led by a virtual "who's who" of telecommunications industry giants, including 12 Marconi Fellows, will precede the ceremony at Columbia University at the school's David Auditorium and is open to the public.

Marconi Society Chairman and 1987 Marconi Fellow Robert W. Lucky said, "In honoring this 20th century pioneer with the Marconi Society's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Society recognizes Gordon Moore's innovative contribution to the technology that drives our daily lives, his entrepreneurial spirit and his devotion to the collaborative genius that inspired the genesis and success of Intel. For his ingenuity, persistence and generous collaborative spirit, the Marconi Society is pleased to recognize Claude Berrou with its 2005 Marconi Prize. Defying conventional approaches to problem-solving, Berrou and Glavieux opened new avenues of research that have led to modern advances in mobile telephony, satellite and radio communications."

Mr. Moore and Professor Berrou will receive their awards on November 4, 2005, during the annual Marconi Society awards dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Robert Galvin, retired chairman of Motorola Inc., will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Moore, and Francois Delattre, Consul General of France, will present the 2005 Marconi Prize and $100,000 honorarium to Professor Berrou.

Gordon Moore is the third person to receive the Marconi Society's Lifetime Achievement Award during the organization's 31-year history. In 2000, the award was presented to mathematician Claude E. Shannon, the founder of modern information theory who invented the concept of the bit, and in 2003, to William O. Baker, who, as director of research and later president of Bell Laboratories, oversaw the development of a wide array of technologies that earned its researchers eleven Nobel Prizes during his tenure at the helm.

Claude Berrou and his late research partner, Alain Glavieux, stunned the assembly at the 1993 IEEE International Conference on Communications in Geneva with their seminal paper introducing turbo codes, solving a data communications puzzle that had evaded researchers for 40 years. The impact of turbo codes has been influential in such breakthroughs as the development of 3G telephones and the transmission of high resolution pictures from deep space. Professor Berrou joins a select cadre of 34 of the world's most influential communications technology pioneers who since 1975 have been awarded the honor named for Guglielmo Marconi, 1909 recipient of the Nobel Prize for pioneering wireless transmissions. Recent Marconi Fellows include Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google; Robert Metcalfe, inventor of the Ethernet; Robert Gallager, creator of advanced communications codes; and Tim Berners-Lee, architect of the World Wide Web.

[ Back To Contact Center Solutions Homepage's Homepage ]


Related Contact Center Solutions Articles
[ View all Contact Center Solutions Articles ]

Socialize with us

FREE Contact Center Solutions eNewsletter

Click here to receive your targeted Contact Center Solutions Community eNewsletter.[Subscribe Now]

Industry News

Featured Resources

Contact Center Solutions Glossary of Terms

Press Releases

About the Contact Center Solutions Community

    Welcome to the Contact Center Solutions Community The Contact Center Solutions Global Online Community, Sponsored by Interactive Intelligence, is designed to serve as the industry's premier resource for information and research on Contact Center Solutions technology and deployment strategies.