Stewart D. Personick

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Stewart D. Personick
Born1947
Alma mater City College of New York
MIT
Scientific career
Fields Optical communication
Thesis Efficient analog communication over quantum channels
Doctoral advisor Robert S. Kennedy [1]

Stewart David Personick (born 1947) is an American researcher in telecommunications and computer networking. He worked at Bell Labs, TRW, and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), researching optical fiber receiver design, propagation in multi-mode optical fibers, time-domain reflectometry, and the end-to-end modeling of fiber-optic communication systems.

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Biography

Personick was born in Brooklyn in 1947 and attended the Bronx High School of Science. [2] He graduated from the City College of New York with bachelor of electrical engineering degree in 1967 and joined Bell Laboratories. He obtained an SM degree in 1968 and Sc.D degree in 1970 from MIT with support from Bell Laboratories. His dissertation was on analog communication over quantum channels. [1]

At Bell Labs Personick conducted early research in fiber optics technology, including publication of papers on optical receiver design, applications of optical amplifiers, and propagation in multi-mode optical fibers with mode coupling. Some of his early analysis developed a model that included what became known as "the Personick integrals" as basic parameters for the capacity of optical systems. [3] His research was used in early fiber-optic system field tests, including a 1976 experiment in Atlanta, Georgia, [4] and the 1977 Chicago lightwave communication project, which demonstrated the technical and economic viability of optical fiber systems. In 1976 he invented the first practical optical time-domain reflectometer, [5] a test instrument that became heavily used in the fiber optics industry. [6] [7]

From 1978 through 1983, Personick was a manager at TRW Inc. He managed organizations responsible for research and development of commercial telecommunications transmission and switching equipment, and organizations responsible for US federal government-funded research applications of optical communication technologies.

In 1983 Personick joined Bell Communications Research (Bellcore). There, he managed organizations responsible for the creation of new telecommunications technologies. These included: fiber-to-the-home, asymmetric digital subscriber line, Integrated Services Digital Network, the Intelligent Network (customized call processing applications that depend upon customer-specific data stored in centralized “services control points”), wireless telecommunications networks, and packet-switched public telecommunications network services, including acting as the interface between the traditional telecommunications industry and the emerging Internet access industry. He managed systems engineering organizations, ranging in size from 150 to 400 and research organizations ranging in size from 100 to 150 persons. He helped shape telecommunications research policy through participation in national level committees such as the Federal Networking Council, [8] and by influencing executives of the telecommunications industry. [9] He initiated external government-funded research projects at Bellcore as an additional source of research funding. In 1993 he predicted social changes from the technology progress. [10]

Personick joined Drexel University's ECE department of electrical engineering and computer science on September 1, 1998, as the first E. Warren Colehower Chair Professor of Telecommunications, and as the first director of Drexel's Center for Telecommunications and Information Networking. [11] He acquired and managed more than $30 million in externally funded research contracts over 5 years. His research and teaching included calculating the channel capacity of optical fiber. [12] and optical switching, an application of photonics. [13]

In 2003 Personick was appointed a member of the US Federal Communications Commission’s Technological Advisory Council. The council met approximately quarterly to discuss technology-related topics of interest to the FCC, in the context of airing issues and making recommendations to the FCC and the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. The TAC's last meeting was held in July 2006. Personick served on the board of directors for Optical Communications Products, Inc. from November 2000 through October 2007, when it was acquired by Oplink Communications. [14]

Personick joined New Jersey Institute of Technology's department of electrical and computer engineering on February 18, 2008, as the first Ying Wu Endowed Chair in Wireless Telecommunications until 2011. [15] From September 1, 2011, to December 31, 2012, Personick was a senior university lecturer at NJIT. [6]

Honors

Personick was elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America in 1988 in recognition of distinguished service in the advancement of optics. He received the John Tyndall Award, sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), for career achievements and contributions to the field of optical fiber communications in April 2000. [11]

Personick became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), in 1983 for contributions to the theory and application of optical fiber systems, [16] and an IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. [11] At various times Personick served as IEEE Communications Society journal editor, board of governors, director of publications, VP for member affairs, and representative on the steering committee of the Optical Fiber Communication conference. He was the technical program committee co-chair of the 1983 Optical Fiber Communication conference, general co-chair of the 1985 Optical Fiber Communication conference, and member and chair of the John Tyndall Award committee.

Personick was elected a member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 1992. He served on the US NAE Board on Army Science and Technology, member and chairman of other US NAE committees and panels. [17] He co-edited a report on "Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law" published by the United States National Research Council in 2003. [18]

He received a career achievement award from Engineering Alumni of the City College of New York in 1998.

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References

  1. 1 2 Stewart D. Personick (1970). Efficient analog communication over quantum channels (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering Thesis. hdl:1721.1/13798.
  2. ↑ "Are We Jeopardizing Our Most Important Long-Term Asset: Trust?". Debate biographies. IEEE Communication Society. March 25, 2009. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  3. ↑ Jerry D. Gibson, ed. (8 October 2018). The Communications Handbook. pp. 48–6. ISBN   9781420041163.
  4. ↑ R. G. Smith & H. W. Reinbold (July–August 1978). "Atlanta Fiber Systems Experiment: Optical Detector Package" (PDF). Bell System Technical Journal . 57 (6): 1809–1822. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1978.tb02128.x. S2CID   8465489 . Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ S. D. Personick (March 1977). "Photon Probe—An Optical-Fiber Time-Domain Reflectometer" (PDF). Bell System Technical Journal . 56 (3): 355–366. doi:10.1002/j.1538-7305.1977.tb00513.x. S2CID   44491460 . Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  6. 1 2 "Personick, Stewart D." Faculty page. New jersey Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on August 4, 2011. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  7. ↑ Duwayne R. Anderson; Larry M. Johnson; Florian G. Bell (2004). Troubleshooting Optical Fiber Networks: Understanding and Using Optical Time-Domain Reflectometers. Academic Press. p. 4. ISBN   0080492363.
  8. ↑ "Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee Members". Official web site. December 20, 1996. Archived from the original on October 22, 1997. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  9. ↑ "Is There a Role for the US Government in Technology Development?". IEEE Archives. June 10, 1996. Retrieved June 8, 2013.[ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ James Gleick (May 16, 1993). "The Telephone Transformed — Into Almost Everything". The New York Times. p. 26. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  11. 1 2 3 "Stewart D. Personick 2000 John Tyndall Award Winner". April 2000. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
  12. ↑ Stewart D. Personick (December 4, 2000). "Computing the Shannon Information Capacity of an Optical Fiber" (PDF). Retrieved June 9, 2013.
  13. ↑ Stewart D. Personick, Drexel University (November 6, 2001). "Photonic Switching" (PDF). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 15, 2004. Retrieved June 9, 2013.
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  15. ↑ "Telecommunications and Networking Giant Joins NJIT as Wireless Telecom Chair". June 19, 2008. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved June 8, 2013.
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  17. ↑ Critical Autonomous Vehicles in Support of Naval Operations. National Academies Press. 2005. ISBN   9780309181235.
  18. ↑ Stewart D. Personick; Cynthia A. Patterson, eds. (2003). Critical Information Infrastructure Protection and the Law: An Overview of Key Issues. National Academies Press. ISBN   9780309088787.
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