Gerald R. Ash (born August 1, 1942) is an American retired electrical engineer who worked at

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, commonly referred to as ''Bell Labs'', is an American industrial research and development company owned by Finnish technology company Nokia. With headquarters located in Murray Hill, New Jersey, Murray Hill, New Jersey, the compa ...

. His research has focused on

routing Routing is the process of selecting a path for traffic in a Network theory, network or between or across multiple networks. Broadly, routing is performed in many types of networks, including circuit-switched networks, such as the public switched ...

problems; he is known for the development of Dynamic Non-Hierarchical Routing (DNHR).

Biography

Ash received his B.S. in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

in 1964 from

Rutgers University Rutgers University ( ), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of three campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's C ...

. He attended graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his M.S. in 1965 and PhD in 1969, both in electrical engineering. He joined

in 1972. In 1989 Ash was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, together with Billy B. Oliver, for their work on DNHR. In 1993, Ash was elevated to

IEEE The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE ...

fellow for contribution to the conception and implementation of dynamic routing in telecommunication networks. In 2001 Ash was inducted into th
New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame
for his unique contributions to the telecommunications industry by inventing three dynamic routing schemes, which were patented from 1982 to 1995. Ash is the author of three books, "Dynamic Routing in Telecommunications Networks" (1997) "Traffic Engineering and QoS Optimization of Integrated Voice & Data Networks (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)" (2006) "Katy's Astonishing Adventures With Tortulus T.Turtle" by Gerald Ash and Katy Chew" (2009)

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written in 1989 Living people 1942 births Engineers from Paterson, New Jersey American electrical engineers Rutgers University alumni California Institute of Technology alumni Scientists at Bell Labs {{US-electrical-engineer-stub