Bruce Lusignan

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Bruce Lusignan (born 1936) [1] is an emeritus [2] [3] professor of electrical engineering at Stanford University [4] [5] and a visiting professor at Portland State University. [6] He earned his B.S.E.E ('58), M.S.E.E. ('59) and Ph.D. ('63) degrees from Stanford. [6] In the early 1960s, he worked in radio astronomy at Stanford. [7] [8] He has been director of Stanford's Communication Satellite Planning Center [9] [10] and Stanford's Center for International Cooperation in Space. [5] He has also owned a small company designing cellular phones and pagers. [11]

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His areas of specialization are communications satellites, telephone switches, cellular networks and the related signal processing problems. [6] He is inventor or co-inventor on 16 patents, including devices for metering power, [12] RF signal reception, [13] satellite transceivers, [14] alarm systems for cellular base stations, [15] tone generators for telephony, [16] and VSAT terminals. [17]

He has worked on designs for reusable launch vehicles [9] based on the Black Horse concept. [18] and has helped direct planning efforts for international cooperation on Mars exploration with the then-Soviet Union. [4] [19] [20] [21] He led later post-Soviet cooperation in planning for an international Mars mission that included a space logistics function for ICBMs: using missiles such as the SS-18 to pre-position fuel and other supplies in Earth orbit, and Russia's Energia booster to send the supplies to Mars ahead of the crew. [22]

Lusignan also takes a strong interest in the politics and issues that arise in economic development, [6] including sustainable development in Africa, [10] earthquake relief and reconstruction in Peru, [23] and rural telecommunications in the Middle East. [24] For a number of years he ran EDGE – "Ethics of Development in a Global Environment" [25]  – a weekly seminar at Stanford about issues in international conflict, trade, environmental sustainability, and amelioration of poverty and racism. [2] [5]

In 1982, he was one of a number of professors who, with the support of their institutions, openly defied restrictions on use of otherwise-publicly available materials rationalized via the Arms Export Control Act. [26]

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  2. 1 2 Perkowski, Marek A (ed.). "Bruce Lusignan". Portland State University.
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  5. 1 2 3 "Bruce Lusignan – associate professor". Faculty. Stanford Electrical Engineering Department. 2007. Archived from the original on September 25, 2008.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Bruce Lusignan". Faculty Research Interests and Publications. Portland State University . Retrieved 2011-08-09.
  7. ↑ "Start 'Em Early". Life . September 14, 1962. p. 118.
  8. ↑ Bruce Lusignan (1963). Detection of solar particle streams using high-frequency radio waves. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering.
  9. 1 2 Hudgins, Edward Lee; Boaz, David, eds. (2002). Space: the free-market frontier. Cato Institute. p. 79. ISBN   1-930865-19-8.
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  13. ↑ US 5640698,Shen, David H.; Hwang, Chien-Meen& Lusignan, Bruce B.et al.,"Radio frequency signal reception using frequency shifting by discrete-time sub-sampling down-conversion",issued Jun 17, 1997
  14. ↑ US 5930680,Lusignan, Bruce B.,"Method and system for transceiving signals using a constellation of satellites in close geosynchronous orbit",issued Jul 27, 1999
  15. ↑ US 4972507,Lusignan, Bruce B.,"Radio data protocol communications system and method",issued Nov 20, 1990
  16. ↑ US 4571723,Lusignan, Bruce B.; Sytwu, James& Badawi, Amr,"Pulse code modulated digital telephony tone generator",issued Feb 18, 1986
  17. ↑ US 5745084,Lusignan, Bruce B.,"Very small aperture terminal & antenna for use therein",issued Apr 28, 1998
  18. ↑ Lusignan, Bruce B (19–25 May 1996). "An international single stage to orbit". International Symposium on Space Technology and Science . Vol. 20. Gifu, Japan; JAPAN. pp. 910–915.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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  22. ↑ "Students plan Mars mission in 20 years". News Release. Stanford University. June 8, 1993.
  23. ↑ "Stanford Will Plan Peru City in Quake Area". Los Angeles Times . Apr 28, 1971. p. B5. Archived from the original on November 7, 2012.
  24. ↑ "Stanford Working for Iran TV". The News and Courier. Charleston, SC. June 26, 1975. Retrieved 2011-08-09.
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