Vanu Bose
Vanu Bose | |
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Born | Vanu Amar Bose April 29, 1965 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | November 11, 2017 Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 52)
Education | MIT |
Occupation(s) | Electrical engineer; founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc. |
Relatives | Amar Bose (father) |
Company type | Private |
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Founded | 1998 |
Headquarters | , U.S. |
Website | vanu |
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
[edit]Bose was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1965 to Amar Bose and Prema Sarathy Bose.[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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ Michael Fitzgerald (September 23, 2007). "Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap". The New York Times. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Vanu Bose, '87, SM '94, PhD '99". Alumni profile for EECS Connector. MIT. 2015. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ Scott Woolley (November 25, 2002). "Dead Air". Forbes. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Vanu G. Bose (June 1999). Design and Implementation of Software Radios Using a General Purpose Processor. MIT PhD dissertation.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Ishani Duttagupta (July 23, 2012). "NRI scientists who turned research into successful businesses". The Economic Times. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ "FCC Certifies ADC Equipment For Use With Software Defined Radio Deployments". Wireless Design Online. January 20, 2005. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Pankaj Mishra (January 27, 2008). "New technology may cut wireless network equipment cost by half". Live Mint. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ^ "Software Radio Maker Vanu Raises $32M From Tata, Norwest & CRV". VC Circle on Giga Om. September 1, 2008. Retrieved February 26, 2017.
- ^ Don Seiffert (May 8, 2012). "Vanu Coverage calls in $3.2M in equity". Mass High tech. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ 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
- ^ "Pair wed in garden". Amherst Bee. December 12, 2007. Retrieved February 25, 2017.
- ^ Dizikes, Peter (November 11, 2017). "Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52". MIT News. Retrieved November 12, 2017.