The Economic Times

Bishnu S. Atal: The Indian-born scientist whose breakthrough helped make mobile phone calls possible

Bishnu S. Atal, an accomplished engineer from India, made remarkable contributions to the fields of digital telephony and cellular technology. His groundbreaking research concentrated on speech processing and data compression, which significantly minimized the requirements for data transmission. He pioneered innovations like linear predictive coding and code-excited linear prediction, which laid the groundwork for cellular systems such as TDMA, CDMA, and GSM.