Henry "Hank" Stanley Magnuski is an American engineer and was the co-founder and
CEO
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of
GammaLink
GammaLink Inc. was founded in Sunnyvale, California by Hank Magnuski and Michael Lutz. The company was the first to invent PC-to-fax communications technology, GammaFax.''GammaLink fax board enshrined at Smithsonian'', Infoworld, July 20th, 1992, p ...
, an early pioneer in PC-to-fax technology. He also founded Internet Video Services, a video service provider; MediaMart, an electronic commerce site; and NCast, a presentation technology company .
Magnuski graduated from
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
with a
BSEE in Electrical Engineering in 1965, and an
MSEE from
MIT
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in 1966. He holds a
Ph.D.
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in
Electrical Engineering
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from MIT and conducted
postdoctoral
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work at
Stanford University
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.
In 1995, Magnuski received the Fax Industry Award from BIS, now Giga Information Group, Inc. .
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois, in 1998, recognized Magnuski as a Distinguished Alumni “''In recognition of outstanding contributions to the telecommunications industry, including pioneering work in the area of PC-fax Technology'' .”
In 1980 Magnuski established the first packet repeater for amateur radio in the US. This repeater, KA6M/R, located in the San Francisco Bay area, created interest in packet radio technology and led to the establishment of the Pacific Packet Radio Society.
Magnuski and his wife, Cynthia Jose, established the ''Henry Magnuski Endowed Professorship'' at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois in honor of his father,
Henryk Magnuski
Henryk Władysław Magnuski (January 30, 1909 – May 4, 1978) was a Polish telecommunications engineer who worked for Motorola in Chicago. He was a primary contributor in the development of one of the first Walkie-Talkie radios, the Motorola SCR- ...
.
A patent in multicast videoconferencing was granted to Magnuski in 2007.
[US Patent No. 7,280,492, Videoconferencing system]
References
External links
Pacific Packet Radio Society
Living people
American electronics engineers
American people of Polish descent
Year of birth missing (living people)
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