Biography for Robert Calderbank:

Robert Calderbank is Director of the Information Sciences Research Laboratory at AT&T Labs in Florham Park, New Jersey. The Laboratory is responsible for fundamental innovation in the way AT&T uses information to operate and compete, one example being the AT&T system for International Toll Fraud Detection. It is widely known for innovation in signal processing that will enable new wireless services and speed Internet access, and for breakthrough science, like quantum computing, that is associated with the magic of discovery.

Dr. Calderbank joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980 where he directed the effort that created the V.34 modem standard, and research on advanced read channel architectures that was fundamental to a highly successful strategic partnership between AT&T Microelectronics and certain disk drive manufacturers. He is one of the inventors of Space-Time codes, a breakthrough wireless technology that uses a small number of antennas to provide data rates and/or reliability far exceeding systems employed today. Dr. Calderbank's work on quantum computing with colleagues at AT&T Labs has attracted considerable coverage in the scientific and popular press.

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