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October 23, 2005

Marconi Society Gala Event: November 4th in NYC

After reading about the Marconi Society's Gala Event in the current issue of DSL Prime, I decided to also support this event.

Dave writes:

"The Glittering Prize for Gordon Moore, Claude Berrou Marconi's $100,000 at a Waldorf-Astoria banquet Robert Galvin of Motorola has for decades been Intel's respected competitor. On November 4, Galvin will present Gordon Moore with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Marconi Society at Columbia University. Claude Berrou will be awarded richest award in communications, the $100,000 2005 Marconi Prize for his discovery of turbo codes, which are in the VDSL2 standard and most new mobile phones. Jennie is in Paris as I write, interviewing Berrou's colleagues for a short movie to play at the event.

Earlier in the day at Columbia, a dozen fellows of the Society highlight an event that doesn't require a black tie. Honoring Moore and Berrou will be Federico Faggin (who created the first microprocessor, the Intel 4004), Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf (TCP/IP), Jack Goldman (the "adult supervision" at Xerox PARC), Leonard Kleinrock, Bob Lucky, Harry Sello, Gottfried Ungerboeck, Herwig Kogelnik, Whitfield Diffie, James Massey and David Forney. You rarely have the opportunity to meet so many men who would win Nobel Prizes if engineers were eligible. See you there. http://www.marconifoundation.org to register."

This looks to be a great event. If you can make it to NYC the day/night of November 4th, and if you are involved in the computing / communications space, this is one event you should consider being seen at.

Posted by jeff on October 23, 2005 12:19 PM | Permalink

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Comments

Good day dear friend.

In egality with Berrou, Alain Glavieux is co inventor (Mathematic part. )of the turbo codes.
This it for the reality of your information.
Thank you.

Posted by: Bars at November 6, 2005 08:05 AM