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M. ROBERT AARON
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... Final Tribute Vol 13.indd 2 3/23/10 3:42:02 PM
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... During his career at Bell Labs, Bob was associated with many "firsts." Initially, he worked on the design of networks, filters, and repeaters for a variety of circuits for analog transmission systems, such as the equipment for the first color transmission of the Orange Bowl football game and equalizers for the L3 coaxial system. He made fundamental contributions to computer-aided design and applied these techniques to the development of the first repeatered transatlantic cable system in 1956.
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... Several of his papers have been republished in collections of benchmark publications. He also gave many technical presentations, taught short courses at universities, chaired international meetings, and published some original poems in technical journals.
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... Mayo and Eric E Sumner, of the 1978 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal "for personal contributions to, and leadership in, the practical realization of high-speed digital communications" and the 1988 NEC C&C Prize for "pioneering contributions to the establishment of a basic technology for digital communications by development of world's first practical commercial high-speed digital communication system: T1." He received the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, the McClellan Award of the IEEE Communications Society in 1985, and a Lifetime Service Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 1997.
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... He was actively involved in the Union of Concerned Scientists. After being diagnosed with multiple myeloma, Bob worked with the International Myeloma Foundation to promote the education and support of people with this form of cancer.
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... I kept in touch with Bob and Wilma regularly after leaving Bell Labs, and visited them whenever I was near their home, otherwise by telephone. In June 2007, when I telephoned Bob and I asked how he was doing, he said, in a very soft voice, "Sanjit, I am very sick." I didn't realize at the time that would be the last time I spoke to him.


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