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Press Release for
CQR 2004 CHAIRMAN’s AWARD
IEEE CQR Chairman Karl Rauscher, Director – Network
Reliability Office, Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, honored five individuals
with the CQR Chairman’s Award at an awards ceremony during the 2004 CQR International
Workshop in San Antonio, Texas on April 28.
The Technical Committee on Communications Quality & Reliability is
an IEEE Communications Society international professional organization that is
unique in its service to the quality, reliability and security professionals of
the global communications industry (www.comsoc.org/~cqr). Criteria upon which recipients were selected
include: sustained contributions in the field of Quality, Reliability &
Security of communications services, networks or systems; a demonstration of the core value of a
professional society- adding value to others; and integrity consistent with
that of a role model.
2004 AWARD RECIPIENTS
Koichi Asatani,
Kogakuin University
Dr. Asatani-san is cited for sustained
contributions in advancing the quality and reliability of emerging
communications services, leadership and coordination of scientific
collaboration, and for personal dedication to fostering international
relationships.
Karl Rauscher presenting CQR
Chairman’s Award to Dr. Koichi Asatani.
Click here to read more about Dr. Asatani.
Chi-Ming Chen,
AT&T
Dr. Chen is cited for sustained
contributions in the field of expert quality processes, in exemplary transfer
of technical knowledge, and for amiable professionalism.
Karl Rauscher presenting CQR
Chairman’s Award to Dr. Chi-Ming Chen.
Click here to read more about Dr. Chen.
Henry (Hank) M.
Kluepfel, SAIC
Mr. Kluepfel is cited for sustained
contributions in the fields of network security and infrastructure protection
that been have marked by breadth of knowledge and awareness, edification of
peers, and gentle tutelage.
(Karl
Rauscher presenting CQR Chairman’s Award to Telcordia Technologies’ Spilios
Makris - accepting in Hank Kluepfel’s absence.)
Click here to read more about
Mr. Kluepfel.
Archie McCain,
BellSouth
Mr. McCain is cited specifically
for sustained contributions that have enhanced network element performance,
and technical dialogue marked by being both highly insightful and highly
courteous that has lead to meaningful rigor in industry discussions.
Karl Rauscher presenting CQR
Chairman’s Award to Mr. Archie McCain.
Click here to read more about Mr. McCain.
Art Reilly, Cisco
Systems
Mr. Reilly is cited specifically
for sustained contributions in the area of industry standards, the
facilitation of industry consensus, and for serving as a benchmark of
professional etiquette.
(CQR Chairman Karl Rauscher presenting award to Cisco’s Jim Huang –
accepting in Art Reilly’s absence.)
Click here to read more about Mr. Reilly.
Koichi Asatani, Kogakuin
University
Koichi
Asatani received his BEEE. MEEE and Doctor of Engineering from Kyoto University
in 1969, 1971 and 1974 respectively. After joining NTT, he was engaged in R
& D in optical fiber subscriber loop systems, high-definition TV
transmission system, ISDN and broadband networks. He was a leader of NTT
R&D team on the first field trial of optical subscriber loop systems with
use of wavelength-division-multiplexing technology, which was conducted in
Yokosuka Japan, in 1980. Based on the
trial, high-speed digital leased line system was commercialized in 1984.
He led
the international SDH/SONET standards in ITU-T as an editor and as the head of
Japanese delegation, which were established in 1988. In 1989, as an Executive
Manager at NTT Communication Quality Laboratory, where he was engaged in
R&D management for R&D on communication quality and reliability, and
EMC (Electrmagnetc Compatibility). In 1993, as an Executive Manager, R&D
Deapartment, NTT, where he was engaged in global management for strategic
standardization.
In
1997, He joined Kogakuin University as Professor, Depatment of Electronic and
Communication Enginenring. In 1999, he was appointed concurrently as a
visiting Professor, Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication,
Waseda University. In 2003, he was appointed as Dean of Depatment of Electronic
and Communication Enginenring, Kogakuin University.
From
1989 to 2000, he served as a Vice-Chair of CCITT SG XVIII (which transformed to
be ITU-T SG 13 in 1993) and Chair of Working Pary 6 of CCITT SG XVIII (Working
Pary 3/ ITU-T SG13). He led the
international standards on ATM networks/B-ISDN, access network architecture,
and IP networks.
In
2002, He was awaded as a Fellow of IEICE. He was elected as a member of IEICE board
of Governors in 2002. He founded IEICE
Communication Quality Technical Committee (Japan) in 1996 and served as Chair
for 1996-1998. He is an advisory member
of this TC.
In
2004, Dr. Asatani received the Minister's Award for his contributions to the
pioneering R&D on optical subscriber loop systems, and to thee R&D and
global standardization of SDH/SONET and broadband networks by the Minister of
Public Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications, Japan.
He
served in other many international conferences such as IEEE International CQR
Workshop 1994 as Co-General Chair, International Symposium on Interworking 1996
as Co-General Chair. He also served for
other conferences such as 16th International CQR Workshop2002 as Organizing
Committee Chair, Communications QoS and Reliability Symposium at ICC2002 as Co-Symposium
Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC2002)
as Co-General Chair, Communications QoS and Reliability Symposium at
Globecom2002 as Co-Symposium Chair and Communications QoS, Reliability and Performance
Modeling Symposium at ICC 2003 as Co-Symposium Chair. He will serve as Chair or Co-Chair for other future international
conferences such as QoS and Performance Modelling Symposium at ICC2004.
He served
IEEE Communications Magazine as Feature Editor on Standards for 1994-1999, and
is serving as Senior Technical Editor since 1999. He is also Editorial Board Member
of IEEE Communications Survey.
He
served as Co-Guest Editor for several Feature Issues of IEEE Communications
Magazine on "Standards for GII and Multimedia Communications", "Standards
and Innovation in Telecommunications and Information Technology
Objectives" and "Telecommunications for Olympic Games".
He
served as a Senior Advisor to Committee on GII of TTC (Telecommunication
Technology Committee) of Japan and Advisor to TTC for 1997-2000.
He has
been serving as Chair for IP Network National Committee of Japan since 1999,
where Japanese contributions to ITU-T are approved. He also appointed as Chair
for IP Technology Working Group of the National Committee on IP Networking
Technology of Japan in 2001, where IP telephony regulation in Japan was established.
He serves as Chair for IP telephony Working Group of National Emergency Call
Supports Committee, Ministry of Public
Management, Home Affairs, Post and Telecommunications.
He
published more than two hundred papers and articles. He is co-author of 14
books, including "Optical Communications"(Shoko-do Publishing, 1983
in Japanese), "Introduction to B-ISDN" (Ohm-sha Publishing,1992 in
Japanese), "Designs of Telecommunication Networks"(IEICE, 1993 in
Japanese), "Introductions to ATM
Networks and B-ISDN" (John Wiley and Sons, 1997), Multimedia Communications
Networks - Technologies and Services - (Artech House, 1998), Encyclopedia of Telecommunications
(Marcel Dekker, 1998) and others.
Chi-Ming Chen, AT&T
Chi-Ming
Chen received the Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University
of Pennsylvania; M.S. from the Pennsylvania State University; M.S. and B.S.
from Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He taught at Tsing Hua University four years
in the 70s'. Chi-Ming started his career in telecommunications with Bell
Communications Research (Bellcore) in 1985. His responsibilities included
specifying the reliability objectives of the Common Channel Signaling (CCS)
network and database services, technical analysis of various products including
the Signaling Transfer Point (STP), Service Control Point (SCP), and software
architecture reviews. Dr. Chen joined AT&T in 1995. He has worked as a
system engineer to design a billing verification system and operations center.
He also worked as a system engineer for the systems used by AT&T Global
Network Operations Center (GNOC) to monitor and control AT&T's world wide
network for high quality and reliability. He is currently in the Enterprise
Architecture organization in AT&T Labs to define and plan the target system
architecture in different functional areas, e.g., trouble ticketing, fault
management, performance management and services such as remote access and MPLS
VPN.
Dr.
Chen is a Member of the IEEE since 1979. He is currently a Senior Member. He is serving as the Vice Chair –
Publications of the CQR Technical Committee.
Henry (Hank) M. Kluepfel, SAIC
Hank serves as a senior advisor
on communications cyber security to the FBI’s Cyber Crime Squads, the
President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Council (NSTAC) and
the FCC’s Network Reliability and Interoperability Council (NRIC). He is known for regularly sharing
information related to network security with others that can help them in their
scope of responsibility. Hank joined
SAIC in the 1995, after leading the Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)
government account team and network security practice, where he led the
industry’s efforts to protect, detect, contain and mitigate electronic and
physical intrusions to the public networks and public packet networks. While at Bellcore he led the company’s
information security and forensics sciences practice. As former head of
AT&T worldwide cyber security, he is widely known within both industry and
government as one of our nation’s most distinguished experts in the security of
our critical telecommunications infrastructure. Hank is an active participant, lecturer, author and leader in a
number of professional organizations, including the American Society of
Industrial Security International (ASIS) as former Vice Chair of the Information
Technology Security Council, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE) as a Senior Member,
IEEE Carnahan Conference on Security Technology as Executive Committee
Member, IEEE Conference on Quality and
Reliability (CQR), the National Defense University (NDU), the FBI’s Quantico
In-service training conferences, the Information Systems Audit and Control
Association (ISACA) and the Advanced Computing Systems Association
(USENIX). Hank is the lead inventor of
a non-privacy intrusive data evidence collection device used by the
telecommunications common carriers to detect, prosecute and deter computer
hackers. Hank has been certified as an
expert witness of telecommunications security in state and federal courts.
Archie McCain, BellSouth
Archie C. McCain received the BS Comp.
Eng. degree from Southwestern College in Memphis, Tennessee. He began his
telecommunications career at Bell Laboratories in Naperville, Illinois where he
worked on the development and implementation of the 5ESS, one of the first
digital switches in the world. When the Bell System divested into multiple
entities in 1984, he transferred to BellSouth, where he became a leader in the
systematic measurement and improvement of communications quality and
reliability. He developed the first mechanized system for recording performance
data at BellSouth and has championed the concept of systematic recording and
full disclosure of network reliability data to suppliers. He is currently
working with several industry leading companies on a project to enable the automated
collection and recording of network performance data to drive further
improvements in communications quality and reliability.
Art Reilly, Cisco Systems
I have been fortunate to have worked with so many talented people, including my co-recipients Koichi Asatani and Hank Kluepfel on these important topics in industry activities like the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, the IEEE, and the ITU.
I look forward to continuing to make the information society better for
all and helping others carry this torch forward.
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