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Electronic News, Sept 28, 1998

Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, presented its Bell Labs Fellow Award to 10 of scientists and engineers last week at a banquet in their honor. The Fellow Award honors outstanding and sustained R&D Contributions to Bell Labs. Dan Stanzione, Lucent COO and president of Bell Labs, presented the awards to Thomas Brinkman, Monica Sentoff and Ronald Spanke, of Bell Labs, Napierville, Ill.; Debasis Mitra and Mihalis Yannakakis, Murray Hill, N.J.; Krisna Murtti, Krishan Sabnani and William Thompson, Holmdel, N.J.; Jeff Sonntag, Allentown; and Martin Welt, Middletown, N.J.

Since the program began 16 years ago, 150 employees have been named Bell Labs Fellows. The honorees each received a monetary award and a plaque. Among the honorees, Mr. Brinkman received the award for his contributions to the architecture and development of wireless switching technology across four generations of cellular systems and for innovation in bringing packet and digital switching into the wireless market. Mr. Sonntag was cited for leadership in the development of new Lucent Microelectronics businesses by advancing and applying the state-of-the-art in baseband communications architecture and analog circuit design.