Imrich Chlamtac
Encyclopedia
Imrich Chlamtac is the President of CREATE-NET, a European research consortium, primarily in the areas of computer
and telecommunication networks. He is also the president of the European Alliance for Innovation.
from the University of Minnesota
(1979). He received his B.Sci. and M.Sci. degrees in mathematics
with Highest Distinction from Tel Aviv University
(1977).
(ACM) for introducing the concept of lightpaths, the foundation for today's optical WDM
networks. In 1994 he received the Fulbright Scholarship.
Chlamtac holds several honorary appointments including the Bruno Kessler
Honorary Professor, University of Trento
, Italy
, the Sackler
Professorship at Tel Aviv University
, Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
, the "University Professorship" at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
(BUTE
), Hungary
, a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
and Honorary Membership of the BUTE Senate.
He is the 2001 recipient of the ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the 2002 recipient of the IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless
Personal Communications. Dr. Chlamtac is a winner of the New Talents in Simulations Award from the Society of Computer Simulation for the concept of network emulators (1980) and the recipient of multiple ACM
and an SPIE best paper awards. He has lectured worldwide as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (1993 and 2000–2001), and was the plenary and keynote speaker at leading conferences.
Dr. Chlamtac is the co-founder and past President of Consip, the first network emulator company, and of BCN System House Ltd. which was merged into KFKI System Integration Co. Ltd., one of the largest system integrator companies in central Europe.
He is the co-author of multiple Books, Book and Encyclopedias Chapters, including the first textbook on LAN-s entitled "Local Networks: Motivation, Technology and Performance", the book "Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures", which is an IEEE Network Editor's choice, as well as Amazon.com engineering books best-seller, and "Broadband Services to Businesses and Communities".
Dr. Chlamtac is the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), the ACM/Springer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). He served as EiC of the SPIE Optical Magazine and was on the editorial boards and advisory boards of IEEE Transactions on Communications
, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, High Speed Networks Journal, Telecommunication Systems, the Photonic Network Communications Journal and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
.
Computer network
A computer network, often simply referred to as a network, is a collection of hardware components and computers interconnected by communication channels that allow sharing of resources and information....
and telecommunication networks. He is also the president of the European Alliance for Innovation.
Education
Imrich Chlamtac holds a Ph.D. in Computer ScienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
from the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
(1979). He received his B.Sci. and M.Sci. degrees in mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
with Highest Distinction from Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
(1977).
Honorary appointments and international awards
In 1993 Chlamtac was elected Fellow of the IEEE for his work on ad-hoc access protocols and in 1997 he became a Fellow of the Association for Computing MachineryAssociation for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM) for introducing the concept of lightpaths, the foundation for today's optical WDM
WDM
WDM is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:* Warm dark matter* Warm dense matter* Wavelength-division multiplexing* wdm, the WINGs Display Manager* West Des Moines, Iowa* Western Development Museum of Saskatchewan...
networks. In 1994 he received the Fulbright Scholarship.
Chlamtac holds several honorary appointments including the Bruno Kessler
Bruno Kessler
Bruno Kessler was an Italian polititian, President of the Autonomous Province of Trento from 1960 to 1973. He was the father of John Kessler....
Honorary Professor, University of Trento
University of Trento
The University of Trento is an Italian university located in the cities of Trento and Rovereto. It has been able to achieve considerable results in didactics, research and international relations, as shown by Censis University Guide and by the Italian Ministry of...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
, the Sackler
Sackler
-People:* Dr Arthur M. Sackler – physician and philanthropist* Howard Sackler – playwright * Dr Mortimer Sackler – pharmaceutical entrepreneur and philanthropist, brother to Arthur and Raymond...
Professorship at Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.-History:...
, Honorary Professorship at the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
The Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications was founded as The Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications in 1955. It was created under the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Communications Department of the General Staff Department of the People's Liberation Army...
, the "University Professorship" at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
The Budapest University of Technology and Economics , in hungarian abbreviated as BME, English official abbreviation BUTE, is the most significant University of Technology in Hungary and is also one of the oldest Institutes of Technology in the world, having been founded in 1782.-History:BME is...
(BUTE
UTE
UTE is Uruguay's government-owned power company. It was founded in 1912.In 1912, a law that created this public company as the unique distributor of electricity was approved. Then, in 1931, the monopoly of communications was also granted to this company until the founding of ANTEL in 1974....
), Hungary
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
, a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences is the most important and prestigious learned society of Hungary. Its seat is at the bank of the Danube in Budapest.-History:...
and Honorary Membership of the BUTE Senate.
He is the 2001 recipient of the ACM Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research on Mobility and the 2002 recipient of the IEEE Award for Outstanding Technical Contributions to Wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
Personal Communications. Dr. Chlamtac is a winner of the New Talents in Simulations Award from the Society of Computer Simulation for the concept of network emulators (1980) and the recipient of multiple ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
and an SPIE best paper awards. He has lectured worldwide as IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (1993 and 2000–2001), and was the plenary and keynote speaker at leading conferences.
Industries
Dr. Chlamtac was recruited by the University of Texas at Dallas in Fall 1996 to build a bridge to Telecom Corridor, the largest concentration of telecommunications companies in US. As Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications endowed professor, the Director of CATSS, and Associate Provost for Research, he was instrumental in building up one of the largest industry-university partnerships funded through TexTec and other successful initiatives.Dr. Chlamtac is the co-founder and past President of Consip, the first network emulator company, and of BCN System House Ltd. which was merged into KFKI System Integration Co. Ltd., one of the largest system integrator companies in central Europe.
Research
Dr. Chlamtac is the inventor and principal investigator of BIONETS, a 4 year multi-disciplinary project with a 7 MEuros budget, funded under Future and Emerging Technologies initiative on Situated and Autonomic Communications.Publications
Dr. Chlamtac published over 400 papers throughout his research career.He is the co-author of multiple Books, Book and Encyclopedias Chapters, including the first textbook on LAN-s entitled "Local Networks: Motivation, Technology and Performance", the book "Wireless and Mobile Network Architectures", which is an IEEE Network Editor's choice, as well as Amazon.com engineering books best-seller, and "Broadband Services to Businesses and Communities".
Dr. Chlamtac is the founding Editor in Chief of the ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WINET), the ACM/Springer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). He served as EiC of the SPIE Optical Magazine and was on the editorial boards and advisory boards of IEEE Transactions on Communications
IEEE Transactions on Communications
-External links:* *...
, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, High Speed Networks Journal, Telecommunication Systems, the Photonic Network Communications Journal and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications
The Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications is an open access electronically published academic journal devoted to the subject of graph algorithms and graph drawing....
.
External links
- Page of Imrich Chlanmtac chair of the Scientific council of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering - ICST
- Page of Imrich Chlamtac, Honorary Bruno Kessler Professor at the University of Trento, Italy (Partial list of publications there)
- Partial list of publications of Imrich Chlamtac on the DBLP server
- Books by and with Imrich Chlamtac at Amazon.com
- Honorary professor at the University of Trento http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Trento