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John moved to Denver at the
John's research in the 1970s at Bell Labs
end of 1982 and continued to lead a
covered a broad range of areas including
group on advanced terminal work
that eventually produced a plug-in
signal processing, communications,
board for a PC that integrated the PC
and microelectronics.
with the Definity terminals. He got
involved in wireless communication
■ "ISDN and Broadband ISDN," a
later on when his organization in DenAt Colorado University, he held
chapter The Internet Encyclopedia
ver began to work with the Bell Labs
the position of adjunct associate
(Wiley, 2003)
Indian Hill organization in Naperville,
professor in the Interdisciplinary
■ "A Unified Approach to TechnolIllinois, to explore private-branchTelecommunications Program and
ogy Management in New Product
exchange-based code division multiwas director of the TelecommunicaDevelopment," presented at IEEE
ple access switches. Doug Spencer was
tions Laboratory until he moved to
International Engineering Managethe supervisor doing this work. John
Tucson, Arizona, in 2003. His teachment Conference, August 2000
helped Doug's group with some theoing responsibilities were for a remote
■ "Value Networks: Their Role and Idenretical and design concepts for which
laboratory course and a class on digitification in Technology Transfer,"
they filed a few patents. One of those
tal telephony. The remote lab allowed
presented at Technology Transfer
patents was recognized by a Bell Labs
students to engage with laboratory
Society Conference, July 2000
internal award.
experiments from remote locations.
■ "Technology Readiness AssessJohn later broadened his manHe did this under a grant from the
ment: Smoothing the Path from
agement assignments and was in
state of Colorado.
Product Concept to Delivery," R&D
charge of technology planning and
His work on technology forecastEnterprise: Asia Paci fic, vol. 2,
management including research
ing and management that began
no. 4, pp. 3-7, Aug./Sept. 1999.
and forecasting for technology
while he was at the Bell Labs became
competencies, technology investthe basis of his consulting work
Academic and Teaching Roles
ment recommendations, technology
that continued in Tucson, Arizona.
Throughout his career, John has
strategy analysis, and the deployWhile his company, Technolog y
been interested in sharing his knowlment of industry best practices in
Pathways, still exists, he has not
edge and experience with younger
these areas. One of his big challenges
been active in this work for some
engineers. At Bell Labs, he taught
was convincing network planners
years now.
courses in advanced digital sigthat packetized speech was the way
Patents
nal processing and architecture. In
of the future as well as the need
John holds about a dozen patents as
1989, he began adjunct teaching at
to maintain toll quality speech in
a result of his work at Bell Labs. A
the University of Denver. His inithis new environment. Under John,
number of his patents have received
tial course was network managethe group also developed, tracked,
awards. However, the most enjoyment, and he later transferred this
and maintained project plans for
able of his patents is his last one that
course to the University of Colorado
the large multiorganization groups
he holds jointly with his wife Melinda
before he retired from Bell Labs
working on hardware and software
(Figure 2) on a security system for
in 2000.
for data communications products.
portable computers.
He also established a
contract-testing laboraCurrent Activities
tory for developing and
Today, John spends his
executing interoperabilspare time making jewelry
ity system tests for tele(Figure 3 and 4). He enjoys
communications products.
finding stones, and his faSome selected publicavorites are banded rhyotions that resulted in John's
lites (as shown in Figure 4,
work in these areas are
a form of volcanic rock
the following:
■ "SIRS: Selective Interwith small bands of different
sected Rule Search for
colors), cutting and polishPacket Classification,"
ing them, and then setting
with H. Miyoshi, submitt h e m i n f a br i c a t e d s i l ted to the 2003 Interver or copper mounts as
n at ion a l Con fe r e n ce
pendants or earrings. He also
Figure 2: John and his wife Melinda hunting for petrified
wood, which is quite plentiful in Arizona.
on Networks
uses a technique called

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