Vanu Bose

Vanu Bose
Born
Vanu Amar Bose

(1965-04-29)April 29, 1965
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
DiedNovember 11, 2017(2017-11-11) (aged 52)
Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationMIT
Occupation(s)Electrical engineer; founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc.
RelativesAmar Bose (father)
Vanu, Inc.
Company typePrivate
Founded1998; 26 years ago (1998)
Headquarters
Cambridge, Massachusetts
,
U.S.
Websitevanu.com

Vanu Gopal Bose (October 4, 1965 – November 11, 2017) was an American electrical engineer and the founder of Vanu Inc. He was the son of Amar Bose, the founder of Bose Corporation.[1]

Life and career

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Bose was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1965 to Amar Bose and Prema Sarathy Bose. His parents later divorced.[2] He attended Wayland High School and graduated in 1983. He attended his father's alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics in 1988, he earned an MS in 1994, and a PhD in 1999.[3] He was the founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc., a firm that markets software-defined radio technology.[4][5][6] The company uses technology based on his graduate research work, called SpectrumWare, under supervisors David L. Tennenhouse and John Guttag.[7][8][9] The technology was licensed from MIT in 1999 after several rounds of negotiation.[10][11]

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.[12] 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.[13] By 2008, a telecommunications provider in India was reported to be testing the technology.[14]

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.[15] A subsidiary, Vanu Coverage Company, announced $3.2 million investment in 2012.[16]

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.[17]

Personal life

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He married Judith L. Hill in September 2007.[18] They have one daughter. Bose died suddenly in Carlisle, Massachusetts on November 11, 2017, of a pulmonary embolism, aged 52.[2][19][6]

References

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  1. ^ Michael Fitzgerald (September 23, 2007). "Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap". The New York Times. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  2. ^ a b Silver-Greenberg, Jessica (November 14, 2017). "Vanu Bose, Who Brought Cellular Service to Remote Areas, Dies at 52". The New York Times. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
  3. ^ "Vanu Bose, '87, SM '94, PhD '99". Alumni profile for EECS Connector. MIT. 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  4. ^ Scott Woolley (November 25, 2002). "Dead Air". Forbes. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ a b "Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. November 12, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2023.
  7. ^ D.L. Tennenhouse; V.G. Bose (November 13, 1995). "SpectrumWare". Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking - MobiCom '95. ACM. pp. 37–41. doi:10.1145/215530.215551. ISBN 0-89791-814-2. S2CID 16079475.
  8. ^ Vanu G. Bose (June 1999). Design and Implementation of Software Radios Using a General Purpose Processor. MIT PhD dissertation.
  9. ^ 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. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.47.9298. ISBN 978-0-7803-4384-9.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Ishani Duttagupta (July 23, 2012). "NRI scientists who turned research into successful businesses". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  12. ^ "FCC Certifies ADC Equipment For Use With Software Defined Radio Deployments". Wireless Design Online. January 20, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  13. ^ "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.
  14. ^ Pankaj Mishra (January 27, 2008). "New technology may cut wireless network equipment cost by half". Live Mint. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  15. ^ "Software Radio Maker Vanu Raises $32M From Tata, Norwest & CRV". VC Circle on Giga Om. September 1, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
  16. ^ Don Seiffert (May 8, 2012). "Vanu Coverage calls in $3.2M in equity". Mass High tech. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  17. ^ 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
  18. ^ "Pair wed in garden". Amherst Bee. December 12, 2007. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
  19. ^ Dizikes, Peter (November 11, 2017). "Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52". MIT News. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
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