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Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 scientist and entrepreneur in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

After graduating from Robert College
Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is the most selective independent private high school in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutk?y district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west....
 of Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
, he received both his S.B. (1963) and Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 degrees (1969) from the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States....
 and then taught on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
, Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a selective research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study....
.

In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems, a company that grew to employ more than 800 people by 1999. In 1999 Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies was a technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. It was spun off from AT&T on September 30, 1996....
 for $1.48 billion .






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Kenan Eyup Sahin is a Turkish
Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and Thrace in the Balkans region of Southern Europe....
 scientist and entrepreneur in the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
.

After graduating from Robert College
Robert College

Robert College of Istanbul , is the most selective independent private high school in Turkey. Robert College is a co-educational, boarding school with a 65-acre wooded campus on the European side of Istanbul between the two bridges on the Bosphorus, with the Arnavutk?y district to the east, and the upscale Ulus district to the west....
 of Istanbul
Istanbul

Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey, List of metropolitan areas in Europe by population, and List of cities proper by population in the world with a population of 12.6 million....
, he received both his S.B. (1963) and Ph.D.
Ph.D.

Ph.D. or PHD may stand for:* Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group* Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip...
 degrees (1969) from the MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, in the United States....
 and then taught on the faculties of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private university research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States....
, Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst

The University of Massachusetts Amherst is a selective research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The University of Massachusetts Amherst offers over 90 undergraduate and 65 graduate areas of study....
.

In 1982, Sahin founded Kenan Systems, a company that grew to employ more than 800 people by 1999. In 1999 Kenan Systems was acquired by Lucent Technologies
Lucent Technologies

Lucent Technologies was a technology company composed of what was formerly AT&T Technologies, which included Western Electric and Bell Labs. It was spun off from AT&T on September 30, 1996....
 for $1.48 billion . In late 2001, Lucent sold the assets of the former Kenan System to CSG Systems for US$300 million. He then became President of Lucent's Software Products Group and Vice President of Software Technology at Bell Labs
Bell Labs

Bell Laboratories is the research organization of Alcatel-Lucent and previously of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company .Bell Laboratories has had its headquarters at Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, and it has research and development facilities throughout the world....
. In 2002, he took over the Technology & Innovation business of Arthur D. Little
Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm, founded in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemist who discovered acetate, and co-worker Roger Griffin, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....
, a consulting firm which was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in the Greater Boston area of Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England....
 in 1886 and transformed it into , a leading technology development company.

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  • Appearance on WMBR's radio show May 12, 2004