Irwin Dorros (October 3, 1929 – June 22, 2019) was an American telecommunications executive and engineer. Dorros was born in New York and attended the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

and

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. From 1956 to 1978, he served as the executive director of

Bell Telephone Laboratories Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

. He later left Bell to join

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for which he served as an assistant vice president from 1978 to 1983. From 1984 to 1993, he was Executive vice president technical services for

Bellcore iconectiv is a supplier of network planning and network management services to telecommunications providers. Known as Bellcore after its establishment in the United States in 1983 as part of the break-up of the Bell System, the company's name ...

. He received the

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in 1991 "for distinguished technical leadership in the evolution of national telecommunications networks and the implementation of a major R&D resource".

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