Victor B. Lawrence
Signal-processing engineer behind high-speed data over ordinary lines
At a glance
- Inventor
- Victor B. Lawrence
- Life
- contemporary; born in Accra
- Birthplace
- Accra, Ghana
- Country
- Ghana / United States
- Region
- Africa
- Era
- 1950–2000
- Fields
- Technology & Computing
- Evidence
- Documented
- Records
- 0 in this archive
What they did
At Bell Laboratories Lawrence led work on the digital signal processing and modem technologies that pushed data rates over copper telephone lines, and on the submarine-cable and multimedia systems that carried them further.
Historical context
The internet's early consumer growth depended on getting more bits through infrastructure that had been designed for voice.
The legacy
Elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering, he has also worked on extending broadband cable connectivity to West Africa.
The evidence
Member record, National Academy of Engineering
Institutional recordBell Laboratories data communications research records
Institutional record
Documentation strength
- 2
- Sources
- 0
- Primary
- 2
- Publishers
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