John S. Mayo

John S. Mayo (born February 26 1930) is an American engineer, known from contributions to the computer and telecommunications industry,and as being the seventh president of Bell Labs (1991). [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE0DE123BF931A35754C0A967958260 New president named at Bell Labs] from New York Times (July 2, 1991).] [ [http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/mayo.html biography] from IEEE]

Born in Greenville, North Carolina, he earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University. Following this, Mayo joined Bell Labs (1955) where he first worked on early computers as the Triadic and Leprechaun, the Telstar satellite,ocean sonar systems and various switching systems. He was elected vice president at Bell Labs (1975) and eventuallybecame the seventh president (1991) [ [http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLt4wPMNYvyHZUBABE7YLl?LMSG_CABINET=Bell_Labs&LMSG_CONTENT_FILE=History/Presidents/Presidents_Detail_Page_000008.xml presidential page] from Lucent] until his retirement (1995).

Awards

*IEEE Fellow (1967).
*With Eric E. Sumner and M. Robert Aaron he won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1978) and the Computer and Communications Society Koji Kobayashi Award (1988) for the pioneer work on T-1.
*National Medal of Technology award (1990).