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Jack Anthony Baird
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... Jack Baird brought good judgment and good sense to the practice of systems engineering, thus paving the way for modern-day data networking and the computers it links. lack Baird's professional affiliations included being named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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... During his tenure at Bell Laboratories, lack served as a member of the Special Pane} on Common Carrier/Interconnections for the Computer Science and Engineering Board of the National Research Council. After his retirement from AT&T in 1983, he served actively as the chairman of the National Research Council's National Security Telecommunications Policy Planning Environment Committee (National Communications System)
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... In 1961, as director of military switching development, lack supervised the development of a major circuit and message switching network sponsored by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Project UNICOM, which was eventually known as the Defense Automatic Integrates!
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... As executive director, Jack initiated significant efforts in long-range planning for the switching of local and long distance signals. Two years later, he became a vice-presiclent at Bell and assumed responsibility for three systems engineering divisions: transmission, switching, and ciata.
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