Since joining Nokia in 2004, Dr. Bob Iannucci has played a defining role in the company’s R&D strategy. Challenging traditional management thinking, Bob has built a research environment suited to Internet ways of working, while emphasizing more exploratory systems research that focuses on opportunities and competencies new to Nokia.
Throughout his career, Bob has shown an ability to balance scientific and technological understanding with business insight. With three decades in the IT industry — first at IBM during the mainframedays, then at Digital with its minis, and nextat Compaq in the 1990s — he knows full well the importance of transitioning from a profitable business to a growth business. This is Bob’s mission and vision for Nokia.
Bob holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is the author and co-author of two books and several academic papers. He holds five patents.
Bob Iannucci's blog
Dr. Bob Iannucci, CTO and head of Nokia Research Center, is based in Silicon Valley and charged with fostering aggressive innovation within Nokia¹s research teams to extend and expand a long-standing reputation for technology excellence. This blog is Bob¹s platform for sharing insights into these innovations‹both technological and commercial‹as they shape the future of mobile communications and Internet services. At the same time, it¹s your opportunity to join the discussion, posing questions, adding comments, and presenting counterpoints to Bob¹s blog entries.
Welcome to CTO.nokia.com
Welcome to CTO.nokia.com… Nokia and the mobile industry are entering an incredibly exciting time. The confluence of mobile high-speed data networks, massive portable computing power, and a wild proliferation of on-board sensors are enabling a whole new wave of feature and service innovation unlike any we could have imagined even a short time ago. The mobile industry is once again on the precipice of great change, and the Office of the Chief Technology Officer here at Nokia is charged with generating a vision of this new world, and empowering Nokia and its partners to pursue it.
Introduction to Nanoscience
Nanoscience is a topic many are aware of, but few understand. Using the Gartner Hype Cycle as a metric, nanoscience and nanotechnology as a field has peaked on the side of expectations, and troughed in the way of disillusionment, leaving a mix of curiosity, hope, and even fear, in its wake. However, as we climb out of the trough and up the “slope of enlightenment” Nokia is finding that the breadth of opportunities and applications for mobility that are emerging from nanoscience is nothing short of astonishing. The reality is that nanotechnology is
