Career
Lucky joined Bell Labs in 1961, where his initial assignment was in the Data Theory Department under William R Bennett. In 1964 he made his best known invention, the adaptive equalizer, and in the years to follow he was promoted a number of times, becoming in 1982 the executive director of the communications sciences research division. This division comprised essentially all of the Bell Labs research on wireless, optical systems, and other communications systems topics, as well as some of the Bell Labs research on physics and computer science. Two Nobel Prizes were won by researchers in the division.
Lucky left Bell Labs in 1992 and joined Bellcore, the research laboratory for the divested Bell Telephone companies, where he was corporate vice president, responsible for management of research. A few years later Bellcore was sold to SAIC (Science Applications International) and renamed Telcordia Technologies. Robert Lucky retired from Telcordia in 2002.
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