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"Richard Thompson with Maria Calle and Pratibha
Menon at the ITERA 2007 Conference" |
Richard
Thompson, Chair of the Telecommunications Graduate
Program at SIS, was recently awarded a Career Research
Award by the International Telecommunications Education
and Research Association (ITERA). Dr. Thompson
was honored for his many achievements in Telecommunications
research at the ITERA 2007 Awards Dinner, held as part
of the ITERA 2007 Annual Conference in March in Louisville,
Kentucky. ITERA is a nonprofit organization committed
to the advancement of telecommunications science through
excellence in research and education. In addition to
receiving the Career Award, Dr. Thompson served as
a Session Chair for a discussion of “Telecommunications
Technology: Development and Innovation.”
Thompson is the Chair of the Telecommunications Program
at SIS and is the lead faculty member for the ITERA
organization here at the University of Pittsburgh. He
teaches courses on the Physical Layer of Communications,
Photonic Communications, and Switching Systems. Dr.
Thompson’s research interests include communications
switching systems, intelligent networks, user services
and the human interface, fault tolerance and cellular
automata, and probabilistic formal languages. He
is the co-author of The Physical
Layer of Communications Systems with David
Tipper, Prashant Krishnamurthy and Joseph Kabara. The
text, aimed at both students and practitioners in the
telecommunications industry, was published in March
2006 by Artech House Publishers.
Dr. Thompson was one of many SIS faculty and students
who participated in the ITERA 2007 Conference. Papers/
Sessions were also presented by Carlos Caicedo, Maria
Calle, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Joseph Kabara, Pratibha
Menon, Thaier Hayajneh, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Hammad
Iqbal, Natthapong Liamcharoen and Eugene Myakotnykh,
Yuttasart Nitipaichit, and James Wood, Tae-Hoon Kim
and Chih-Kuang Lin. |
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