Vanu Bose
Vanu Bose | |
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Born |
Vanu Gopal Bose April 29, 1965 Boston, Massachusetts |
Died |
November 11, 2017 52) Concord, Massachusetts | (aged
Residence | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Citizenship | American |
Education | MIT |
Employer | Vanu Incorporated |
Known for | Wireless communications |
Relatives | Amar Bose (father) and Prema Sarathy Bose (mother) Maya Bose (sister) |
Private | |
Founded | 1998 |
Headquarters | Cambridge,Massachusetts, United States |
Website |
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Vanu Gopal Bose (October 4, 1965 – November 11, 2017) was an American electrical engineer and technology executive. He was the son of Amar Bose, the founder of Bose Corporation.[1]
Life and career
Born in Boston in 1965,[2] he graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a BS in 1987, MS in 1994, and PhD in 1999.[3] He was the founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc., a firm that markets software-defined radio technology.[4][5] The company uses technology based on his graduate research work, called SpectrumWare, under supervisors David L. Tennenhouse and John Guttag.[6][7][8] The technology was licensed from MIT in 1999 after several rounds of negotiation.[9][10]
In November 2004, its Anywave technology became the first use of software-defined radio certified by the US Federal Communications Commission, and ADC Telecommunications announced it would manufacture related hardware.[11] In 2005, work with India's Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) was announced to use its technology for base transceiver stations at cell sites in rural India.[12] By 2008, a telecommunications provider in India was reported to be testing the technology.[13]
A venture capital investment of $9 million in 2007 from Charles River Ventures was followed by $32 million in 2008, from an arm of the Tata Group, Norwest Venture Partners.[14] A subsidiary, Vanu Coverage Company, announced $3.2 million investment in 2012.[15]
He took his technology to many countries and regions that otherwise would have had no access. Shortly before his death, he donated durable solar-powered cellular sites to the devastated island of Puerto Rico to assist in the location of family members following the devastation by hurricanes in 2017.[16]
Personal information
He married Judith L. Hill in September 2007.[17] They have one daughter.
He died suddenly in Concord, Massachusetts on November 11, 2017 of a pulmonary embolism, aged 52.[2][18]
References
- ↑ Michael Fitzgerald (September 23, 2007). "Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap". The New York Times. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- 1 2 Silver-Greenberg, Jessica (2017-11-14). "Vanu Bose, Who Brought Cellular Service to Remote Areas, Dies at 52". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
- ↑ "Vanu Bose, '87, SM '94, PhD '99". Alumni profile for EECS Connector. MIT. 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Scott Woolley (November 25, 2002). "Dead Air". Forbes. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
- ↑ Suchetana Ray (December 15, 2015). ""My Father Couldn't Have Done In India What He Did With Bose Corp In US"". Business World. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ D.L. Tennenhouse and V.G. Bose (November 13, 1995). "SpectrumWare: A Software-Oriented Approach to Wireless Signal Processing". Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking. ACM: 37–41. doi:10.1145/215530.215551. ISBN 0-89791-814-2.
- ↑ Vanu G. Bose (June 1999). Design and Implementation of Software Radios Using a General Purpose Processor. MIT PhD dissertation.
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(help) - ↑ Vanu G. Bose, Alok B. Shah and Michael Ismert (March 29, 1998). "Software Radios for Wireless Networking". Infocomm '98: Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. IEEE. ISBN 9780780343849. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ Amy Dockser Marcus (September 1999). "Bose and Arrows: MIT Seeds Inventions But Wants a Nice Cut Of Profits They Yield". Wall Street Journal classroom edition. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Ishani Duttagupta (July 23, 2012). "NRI scientists who turned research into successful businesses". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ "FCC Certifies ADC Equipment For Use With Software Defined Radio Deployments". Wireless Design Online. January 20, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "C-DOT and Vanu Inc. enter into strategic partnership to focus on Rural Communication needs". Press release. India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. March 2, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ Pankaj Mishra (January 27, 2008). "New technology may cut wireless network equipment cost by half". Live Mint. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ "Software Radio Maker Vanu Raises $32M From Tata, Norwest & CRV". VC Circle on Giga Om. September 1, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ↑ Don Seiffert (May 8, 2012). "Vanu Coverage calls in $3.2M in equity". Mass High tech. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Silver-Greenbergnov, Jessica, Vanu Bose, Who Brought Cellular Service to Remote Areas, Dies at 52, The New York Times, November 15, 2017, page B13, New York edition
- ↑ "Pair wed in garden". Amherts Bee. December 12, 2007. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ↑ Dizikes, Peter (2017-11-11). "Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52". MIT News. Retrieved 2017-11-12.