Reporter Volume 25, No.14 January 14, 1994

electrical and computer engineering

AWARDED CONTRACT:
Ozan Tonguz, assistant professor of electrical and computer
engineering, was recently awarded an industrial contract entitled
RWireless PBXS from a Massachusetts firm. The $113,000 in funding will
support the work of Tonguz and five research assistants. Their aim is
to design and build a prototype that can act as an interface between
an already installed host PBX and mobile (portable) users.
	Additionally, Tonguz has been named to the IEEE Lasers and
Electronics Program Committee, responsible for organizing topical
meetings and conferences in the areas of fiber optic communications. 

architecture and planning
Wins prize: Ernest Sternberg, assistant professor of planning, School
of Architecture and Planning, has received the 1993 award of the Rollo
May Center for Humanistic Studies at Saybrook Institute in San
Francisco. 
	The award in the sum of $15,000 is to support SternbergUs
writing a book on contrasting contemporary visions of capitalist
change. His initial work on this topic, entitled RTransformations: The
Eight New Ages of Capitalism,S appeared in the December 1993 issue of
Futures: The Journal of Forecasting, Planning and Policy. The study is
expected to take approximately two years to complete and will require
an in-depth examination of the relevant literature to date. 
	Sternberg earned both his doctoral and masterUs degrees from
Cornell University and was a Public Policy Fellow at the Nelson A.
Rockefeller Institute of Government. The author of Photonic Technology
and Industrial Policy: U.S. Responses to Technological Change,
Sternberg is a member of the American Political Science Association,
the World Futures Studies Federation and the American Society for
Public Administration. 
	The Rollo May Center was funded by a challenge grant from
Laurance S. Rockefeller and is dedicated Rto reconceiving the
deepening the study of what it means to be human in contemporary
society.