Background
Bob Iannucci is Head of Nokia Research Center, Nokia's corporate research unit, which interacts closely with all Nokia business groups. Nokia Research Center is responsible for strategic and long-term research in Nokia.
Bob joined Nokia in 2004 as Head of Nokia Research Center's Computing Architectures Laboratory. Before joining Nokia, he held a variety of research and development management positions at Cosine Communications, Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Exa Corporation, and IBM.
Research Interests
- Computing Architectures, with a particular focus on parallel processing
- Human-Computer Interaction, including multimedia search technologies
- Handheld / Mobile Computing
- IP Networking Systems
Professional Activities
Memberships and Appointments
- IEEE (Senior Member) and IEEE Computer Society
- ACM and ACM SIGARCH
- IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems, 2002 - present
- Technical Advisory Board, GigION Corporation, 2003.
- Exhibits Committee; The Tech Museum of Innovation; San Jose, CA; 1999 - 2001.
- Program Co-Chairman; 4th International Symposium on Wearable Computing; Atlanta, GA; October, 2000.
- Panelist; Hot Chips 2000, "Start-ups or Established Companies - The Best Way to Innovate?" Palo Alto, CA; August, 2000.
- Scientific Advisory Board; University of Southern California, Integrated Media Systems Center; 1999 - 2000.
- Industrial Board; Carnegie-Mellon University, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems; 1998 - 2000.
- Program committee member; 3rd International Symposium on Wearable Computing; San Francisco, CA; October 1999.
Experience
Nokia Corporation (2004-present)
- Senior Vice President and Head of Nokia Research Center (January 2005-present)
- Vice President and Head of the Computing Architectures Laboratory (2004)
CoSine Communications, Inc.; Redwood City, CA 2002-2003)
- Senior Vice President, Engineering
Compaq Computer Corporation / DEC; Palo Alto, CA (1995-2001)
- Vice President, Corporate Research (1999-2001)
- Member of the Office of the CTO / Office of Strategy & Technology (2000-2001)
- Director, Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA(1995-1999)
Exa Corporation; Lexington, MA(1992-1995)
- Vice President, Product Marketing (1995)
- Acting President (1994-1995)
- Vice President, Engineering (1992-1995)
IBM Corporation (1977-1991)
- T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY (1988-1991)
- IBM Glendale Laboratory; Endicott, NY (1977-1988)
Patents & Patents Pending
- Configuring Client Software Using Remote Notification.
- joint with C. M. Weikart. U. S. Patent 6,219,698, April, 2001.
- Computer System for Simulating Physical Processes using Multiple Integer State Vectors.
- (joint with H. Chen, P. Churchill, K. Molvig, G. Papadopoulos, S. Remondi, C. Teixeira, and K. Traub), U. S. Patent 5,594,671, January 1997.
- System for Synchronizing Execution by a Processing Element of Threads within a Process using a State Indicator.
- joint with S. Gregor), U. S. Patent 5,553,305, September 1996.
- High Performance Memory System Utilizing Pipelining Techniques.
- sole inventor). U. S. Patent 4,685,088, August 1987.
- Method and Apparatus for Division Employing Associative Memory
- joint with J. Kleinsteiber, U. S. Patent 4,466,077, September 1984
Publications
Books
- Multithreaded Computer Architecture.
- R. A. Iannucci, G. R. Gao, R. H. Halstead, Jr., and B. Smith. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1994. ( publisher access)
- Parallel Machines: Parallel Machine Languages.
- R. A. Iannucci. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, April 1990. ( publisher access)
Papers
- MoCCA: A Mobile Communication and Computing Architecture.
- A. Smailagic, D. Siewiorek, L. Bass, R.A. Iannucci, A. Dahbura, S. Eddleston, B. Hanson, E. Chang.
Third International Symposium on Wearable Computers, San Francisco, October 1999. (download) - A Wallable Macrodevice.
- Keith Waters, R.A. Iannucci. Technical Report, Cambridge Research Laboratory, Cambridge, MA. September, 1999.
- Design, Implementation, and Analysis of a Multimedia Indexing and Delivery Server.
- L. Kontothanassis, C. Joerg, M. J. Swain, B. Eberman, R. A. Iannucci. August, 1999. (download)
- AltaVista Media Search: Indexing Multimedia for the Internet.
- B. Eberman, B. Fidler, R. A. Iannucci, C. Joerg, L. Kontothanassis, D. E. Kovalcin, P. Moreno, M. J. Swain, and J.-M. Van Thong.
Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems (VISUAL99), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Springer-Verlag. June 1999. (download) - Two Fundamental Issues in Multiprocessing.
- Arvind and R. A. Iannucci. Proc. DFVLR - Conference 1987 on Parallel Processing in Science and Engineering, Bonn-Bad Godesberg, June 25-26 1987.
Personal Info
Education
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, May 1988
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dissertation: A Dataflow / von Neumann Hybrid Architecture
M.S., Computer Engineering, May 1982
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Thesis: Attached Data Flow Vector Processor
B.E., Electrical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, March 1977
Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio
Thesis: Design and Simulation of a Multiprocessor
Honors
Elected to Sigma Xi, 1988
Elected to Tau Beta Pi, 1977
Knox Foundation Scholar, 1973-1977
