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13 Facts About Jesse Russell

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Jesse Eugene Russell was born on April 26,1948 and is an American inventor.

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Jesse Russell was trained as an electrical engineer at Tennessee State University and Stanford University, and worked in the field of wireless communication for over 20 years.

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Jesse Russell holds patents and continues to invent and innovate in the emerging area of next generation broadband wireless networks, technologies and services, often referred to as 4G.

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Jesse Russell pioneered the field of digital cellular communication in the 1980s through the use of high power linear amplification and low bit rate voice encoding technologies and received a patent in 1992 for his work in the area of digital cellular base station design.

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Jesse Eugene Russell was born April 26,1948, in Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States of America into a large African-American family with eight brothers and two sisters.

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Jesse Russell is the son of Charles Albert Russell and Mary Louise Russell.

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Jesse Russell participated in this educational opportunity and began his academic and intellectual pursuits.

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Jesse Russell continued his education at Tennessee State University where he focused on electrical engineering.

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Jesse Russell continued his academic pursuits and earned a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University in 1973.

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Jesse Russell is known for his invention of the digital cellular base station and the fibre optic microcell utilizing high power linear amplifier technology and digital modulation techniques, which enabled new digital services for cellular mobile users.

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Jesse Russell has over 100 patents granted or in process, such as these in the table.

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Jesse Russell joined Bell Labs as a Member of the Technical Staff.

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Jesse Russell was one of the first designers to use a microprocessor in the design of equipment for use in the telecommunication network for monitoring and tracking calling patterns within the Bell System Network.