"As
it's first recipient and in acknowledgment of his sustained
editorial contributions to the Society's Journals and Magazines,
for his service as an Editor-in-Chief, and as Feature Editor
of the acclaimed CommuniCrostic Puzzle."
Paul E. Green
 Paul
Green made pioneering contributions to spread spectrum, channel
adaptive receivers (Rake), radar astronomy and seismic array
signal processing during his 20 years with MIT Lincoln Lab.
From 1969 to January, 1997 he was variously a senior manager
at IBM's Research Division or a member of IBM's Corporate
Technical Committee. His IBM technical interests centered
around speech recognition, peer networking and later fiber
optic networking. He initiated in 1979 the program that later
became APPN, the peer network control generation of System
Network Architecture, and in 1988 IBM's optical networking
program, which was acquired by Tellabs in January, 1997. At
Tellabs, where he works on optical crossconnects and all-optical
networking, his current title is Director of Optical Networking
Technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of several awards
and medals from the IEEE and the ACM. He is the author of
Fiber Optic Networks, (1993) and Editor of a number of reprint
collections. He has been President of both the IEEE Communication
Society and the Information Theory Society.
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