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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 ofAmar Bose,the founder ofBose Corporation.[1]

Life and career[edit]

Bose was born inBoston, Massachusetts,in 1965 toAmar Boseand Prema Sarathy Bose.[2]He attendedWayland High Schooland graduated in 1983. He attended his father's alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technologyand graduated with a BS inComputer Science,Electrical Engineering,andMathematicsin 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 marketssoftware-defined radiotechnology.[4][5][6]The company uses technology based on his graduate research work, called SpectrumWare, under supervisorsDavid L. TennenhouseandJohn 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 USFederal Communications Commission,andADC Telecommunicationsannounced it would manufacture related hardware.[12]In 2005, work with India'sCentre for Development of Telematics(C-DOT) was announced to use its technology forbase transceiver stationsatcell sitesin rural India.[13]By 2008, a telecommunications provider in India was reported to be testing the technology.[14]

Aventure capitalinvestment of $9 million in 2007 fromCharles River Ventureswas followed by $32 million in 2008, from an arm of theTata 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 apulmonary embolism,aged 52.[2][19][6]

References[edit]

  1. ^Michael Fitzgerald (September 23, 2007)."Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap".The New York Times.RetrievedFebruary 25,2017.
  2. ^abSilver-Greenberg, Jessica (November 14, 2017)."Vanu Bose, Who Brought Cellular Service to Remote Areas, Dies at 52".The New York Times.RetrievedMay 30,2018.
  3. ^"Vanu Bose, '87, SM '94, PhD '99".Alumni profile for EECS Connector.MIT. 2015.RetrievedFebruary 25,2017.
  4. ^Scott Woolley (November 25, 2002)."Dead Air".Forbes.RetrievedJanuary 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.RetrievedFebruary 25,2017.
  6. ^ab"Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52".MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology.November 12, 2017.RetrievedJune 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.ISBN0-89791-814-2.S2CID16079475.
  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.CiteSeerX10.1.1.47.9298.ISBN978-0-7803-4384-9.
  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.RetrievedFebruary 25,2017.
  11. ^Ishani Duttagupta (July 23, 2012)."NRI scientists who turned research into successful businesses".The Economic Times.RetrievedFebruary 25,2017.
  12. ^"FCC Certifies ADC Equipment For Use With Software Defined Radio Deployments".Wireless Design Online.January 20, 2005.RetrievedFebruary 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.RetrievedFebruary 26,2017.
  14. ^Pankaj Mishra (January 27, 2008)."New technology may cut wireless network equipment cost by half".Live Mint.RetrievedFebruary 26,2017.
  15. ^"Software Radio Maker Vanu Raises $32M From Tata, Norwest & CRV".VC Circle on Giga Om.September 1, 2008.RetrievedFebruary 26,2017.
  16. ^Don Seiffert (May 8, 2012)."Vanu Coverage calls in $3.2M in equity".Mass High tech.RetrievedFebruary 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.RetrievedFebruary 25,2017.
  19. ^Dizikes, Peter (November 11, 2017)."Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52".MIT News.RetrievedNovember 12,2017.
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