Leader of a major telecommunications corporation set to speak at MSU
November 10, 2006
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is proud to announce that AT&T Labs Vice President of IP & Voice Services Research, Richard V. Cox, will be conducting a seminar series on the Mississippi State University campus in conjunction with the Bagley College of Engineering. The seminar series will be held Monday, November 13, at 3 p.m. in the Simrall Auditorium.
The guest speaker has a long line of experience in the telecommunications world. He joined the Acoustics Research Department of Bell Laboratories in 1979 where he developed research with the ITU effort. In 1992, he was appointed Department Head of the Speech Coding Research Department of AT&T Bell Labs. In 1996 he joined AT&T Labs as Division manager of the Speech Processing Software and Technology Research Department. He also served as the Speech and Imaging Processing Research Vice President before his current appointment as IP & Voice Services Research Vice President.
His research in the telecommunications field includes: speech coding, digital signal processing, analog voice privacy, audio coding, real-time signal processing implementations, speech recognition and speed enhancement. His work has earned him recognition as a Fellow of the IEEE and is the past president of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has also been awarded the AT&T Science and Technology Medal and the Third Millennium Medal, awarded to him in 2000.
Today his work and experience in the telecommunications world is continuing to expand.