Technology demonstration

Lucent Technologies Day at Cornell, April 7, featured a series of sessions by Cornell faculty discussing research initiatives using Lucent's (the former Bell Labs) strategic and enabling technologies. Above, Sheila Hemani, assistant professor of electrical engineering, second from left, and doctoral student Marcia Ramos demonstrate compression algorithms in the Visual Communications lab in Rhodes Hall. From left, seated, are Jay Carter, president of AT&T's customer business unit; and Bruce Wagner and Gordon Wilfong, Lucent scientists; and standing, from left, are Ron Rodriguez, university relations campus manager for Lucent; Nick Komanecky, director of Cornell corporate relations; and James S. Thorp, director of Cornell's School of Electrical Engineering. Frank DiMeo/University Photography