Contribution
VP of Architecture and Strategy for AT&T's and British Telecom's global alliance, he was responsible for its overall IP architecture, IP voice migration, and for aligning technology and business goals. Tom is an expert in many areas of computing and networking and has made significant contributions in information retrieval, compilers and operating systems, multiprocessors and security and crypto technology. He created the first version of UNIX for the VAX-11 computers. Tom (in Holmdel, NJ) also improved the movement of output characters from user space to kernel space.