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19 people who changed the face of the wireline telecom industry

October 4, 2011 — 7:00am ET | By Sean Buckley

It has been over 135 years since Alexander Graham Bell uttered that famous phrase to his assistant: "Watson, come here, I need you." Anyone who works or covers the telecom industry as a member of the Read more >>

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Celebrating wireline's innovators
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Harold S. Black, negative feedback amplifier
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William Shockley, John Bardeen & Walter Brattain, co-invented the transistor
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Larry Roberts, pioneered packet switching
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Claude Shannon, pioneered digital information theory
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Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes, co-developed foundations for the laser
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Almon Strowger, pioneered mechanical voice switching
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Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet
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Bill McGowan, chairman & CEO of MCI
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Len Kleinrock, developer of queuing theory for packet switching
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John MacChesney, optical pioneer
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Elisha Gray, inventor of the variable resistance microphone
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Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn, co-inventors of TCP/IP protocol
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John Cioffi, father of DSL technology
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Cleyson Brown, founder of Brown Telephone, the precursor to Sprint
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Alexander Graham Bell, telephone
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19 people who changed the face of the wireline telecom industry
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