Irwin Dorros

Irwin Dorros
Born	(1929-10-03) October 3, 1929 Brooklyn, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Columbia University
Spouse(s)	Janet
Children	three
Awards	IEEE Founders Medal (1991)

Irwin Dorros (born October 3, 1929) is an American former telecommunications executive and engineer.

Dorros was born in New York and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University.^[1] From 1956 to 1978, he served as the executive director of Bell Telephone Laboratories. He later left Bell to join AT&T for which he served as an assistant vice president from 1978 to 1983. From 1984 to 1993, he was Executive vice president technical services for Bellcore.^[2] He received the IEEE Founders Medal in 1991 "for distinguished technical leadership in the evolution of national telecommunications networks and the implementation of a major R&D resource".^[3]

References

IEEE Founders Medal
1953–1975	David Sarnoff (1953) Alfred Norton Goldsmith (1954) No award (1955) No award (1956) Raymond A. Heising (1957) Walter Ransom Gail Baker (1958) No award (1959) Haraden Pratt (1960) Ralph Bown (1961) No award (1962) Frederick Terman (1963) Andrew McNaughton (1964) No award (1965) Elmer William Engstrom (1966) Harvey Fletcher (1967) Patrick E. Haggerty (1968) E. Finley Carter (1969) Morris D. Hooven (1970) Ernst Weber (1971) Masaru Ibuka (1972) William Redington Hewlett and David Packard (1973) Lawrence A. Hyland (1974) John G. Brainerd (1975)
1976–2000	Edward W. Herold (1976) Jerome Wiesner (1977) Donald G. Fink (1978) Hanzo Omi (1979) Simon Ramo (1980) James Hillier (1981) Shigeru Yonezawa (1982) Joseph M. Pettit (1983) Koji Kobayashi (1984) William Norris (1985) George H. Heilmeier (1986) James B. Owens (1987) Ian M. Ross (1988) Ivan A. Getting (1989) Erich Bloch (1990) Irwin Dorros (1991) Roland W. Schmitt (1992) Ken Olsen (1993) Akio Morita (1994) Malcolm R. Currie (1995) Norman R. Augustine (1996) Gordon Moore (1997) Alan W. Rudge (1998) Benjamin M. Rosen (1999) Bob Galvin (2000)
2001–present	Robert A. Frosch (2001) Thomas Eugene Everhart (2002) Ray Stata (2003) Mildred Dresselhaus (2004) Eugene Wong (2005) Toshiharu Aoki (2006) Anita K. Jones (2007) Steven Sample (2008) Craig Barrett (2009) Paul E. Gray (2010) James F. Gibbons (2011) F. C. Kohli (2012) Leo Beranek (2013) Eric Schmidt (2014) James Plummer (2015)

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