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THE MARCONI SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY celebrated telecommunications giants at its annual dinner. Top left, Dr. Gordon Moore, right, former chairman of Intel, received the Marconi Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law, bestowed by Robert Galvin, chairman emeritus of Motorola, Inc. and Marconi Society Board member. Top right, Claude Bessou, left, professor of electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, received the 2005 Marconi Prize for helping to develop a new family of quasi-optimal error correction codes, nicknamed turbo codes. He is shown here with Francoise Delattre, Consul General of France. Below, many previous winners of the Marconi Prize attended the gala celebration. Dr. Robert W. Lucky, second row, far right, the 1987 Marconi Fellow, former Bell Labs researcher and Corporate Vice-President of Applied Research at Bellcore, has been named the new chairman of the Marconi Society. John Jay Iselin is president. 
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