Full-length interview with Robert Wendell Lucky. Portions of this interview were featured in episodes from the WGBH/BBC Series, The Machine That Changed The World. The Machine That Changed The World was a five part series chronicling the personalities and events of the computer revolution. Program traces the history of the development of the computer to the modern personal computer, to future developments on the horizon. Focus on history of computers from 19th century to PC, present day applications, and future developments. Robert Lucky is an electrical engineer and inventor who worked at Telcordia Technologies, formally Bell Communications Research, Inc., and Bell Laboratories. He is the inventor of the adaptive equalizer, which automatically adapts to the time-varying properties of the communication channel. Select metadata for this record was submitted by John Campopiano.
