Jung Uck Seo, who served as 2003–2004 IEEE Region 10 director, died on 11 January on the age of 70.
While working at Korea Telecom, the IEEE Life Fellow led the event of the TDX-1 digital phone switching system. Later he labored to commercialize the code division a number of entry methodology of encoding knowledge sources. CDMA, often called 2G, allowed knowledge to be transmitted over a single radio-frequency provider by one transmitter, or to make use of a single RF provider frequency with a number of transmitters.
Seo additionally served in management positions for a number of South Korean authorities divisions together with the Agency for Defense Development and the Korean Communications Agency.
Early days in protection know-how
After incomes a bachelor’s diploma in electrical engineering from Seoul National University in 1957, Seo joined the Republic of Korea Air Force Academy, in Cheongju, as an teacher of communications and electronics. Three years later he left for the United States to attend Texas A&M University, in College Station. He earned grasp’s and doctoral levels in electrical engineering there in 1963 and 1969, respectively.
He returned to South Korea in 1969 and joined the newly established Agency for Defense Development, in Daejon, as a bit chief. There he developed applied sciences for the navy, together with a two-way radio, a phone linking system, and a conveyable calculator. Seo rose by way of the ranks and finally was named president of the electronics and communications division.
He left in 1982 to hitch Seoul National University, the place he taught for a 12 months as a professor of electromagnetic subject concept.
In 1983 he joined Korea Telecom (now KT Corp.), in (*10*)-si, the place he served as senior govt vice chairman. He was accountable for R&D for digital switching and high quality assurance programs. During his time on the company, he led the event of the Time Division Exchange, or TDX-1—a digital switching system that was deployed throughout the nation’s telecom networks in 1984.
In 1991 Seo was appointed by the South Korean authorities to function minister of science and know-how. In this function, he authorized authorities funding for analysis and improvement.
After two years he left to change into president of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, in Seoul, the place he led the trouble to commercialize CDMA know-how. Seo and a crew of KIST researchers labored with Qualcomm to develop CDMA know-how for mobile networks. In 1996 cellular communications carriers in South Korea started to offer CDMA wi-fi companies, turning into the primary industrial carriers worldwide to use the know-how.
In addition to his management at KIST, Seo served as president and vice chairman of SK Telecom, a wi-fi operator and former movie distributor in Seoul. He was chief govt of the Korea Accreditation Board, which operates accreditation packages for administration and programs certifications primarily based on worldwide requirements.
A lifelong member of IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu, Seo was named an eminent member in 2012, the consideration society’s highest degree of membership.
The South Korean authorities bestowed him with a number of honors together with the Order of Industrial Service Merit, the Order of Civil Merit, and the Order of Service Merit.