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NETAŞ, (N.E. Telecommunications, A.Ş.), Ümraniye, Istanbul, Turkey,
11/87-04/89 (Nortel Networks Netaş Telekomünikasyon A.Ş.)
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Digital Equipment Corporation, Merrimack, NH, 04/84-10/86
(merged with COMPAQ & HP)
Adnan had returned to the United States from his Military duty in the Turkish ARMY and he accepted a position as a senior systems engineer at DEC in Merrimack, NH. While he was working there, Adnan motivated a junior engineer Richard Maynard, to work on embedded microprocessor based hardware and firmware. A fun project was the alteration of DEC's keyboard electronics to function with an Apple Computer's Macintosh. Adnan also worked with an HPIB instrumentation to automate testing of magnetic recording heads using a computer and a spectrum analyzer. For a short time, he participated in the PANTHER computer voice-data project group and also, he started on a Q-Bus modem board architecture design using Rockwell chips. During these projects, he discovered the need for a dual ported RAM (Random Access Memory). In the meantime, Adnan became a Naturalized Citizen of the United States at the historic Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts (1985). To visit the Web site, please click here. | ||||||||||||||||
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International Cospas-Sarsat Programme with Proteon, Inc., Waltham, MA, 06/82-04/84
 The four founding countries led development of the 406 MHz marine EPIRB (Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon) and ELT (Emergency Locator Transmitter) in 1982. As an integral part of worldwide search and rescue, the Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT) System is operated to detect and locate mariners, aviators, and recreational enthusiasts in distress almost anywhere in the world at anytime and in almost any condition. The SARSAT system uses satellites in low-earth and geostationary orbits. The satellites relay distress signals from emergency beacons to a network of ground stations and ultimately to the U.S. Mission Control Center (USMCC) in Suitland, Maryland. The EPIRB signal would be transmitted from the location of the distress with a Radio Frequency Signal 406 MHz PSK (Phase Shift Key). The data communications are Manchester encoded and the signal has a duration of 0.5 seconds. The signal would then be re-transmitted every 50 seconds. The emergency beacon's message is either a 112-bit "short" message or a 144-bit "long" message, both including 49 bits of identification plus position information. The data has a training sequence and a frame. For error-control coding the BCH Code is used. Adnan developed Real-time firmware for an embedded CMOS Intel 8051 microprocessor and he designed digital and analog circuits for the receiver. Adnan also defined the user interface for the hand-held receiver with a small LCD display, switches and audio-visual indicators. Adnan's work entailed extensive coding using assembly language programming, debugging, lab testing and in-circuit-emulation for the firmware. An initial prototype was built and soon thereafter, the manufacturing of these verification receivers began. The project was a success in France. Upon the successful completion of this project his position was phased off and he journeyed back to TURKEY to serve in the ARMY. Later, the PROTEON Company moved in the direction of Local Area Networks (LAN). To visit the Web site, please click here. 
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Racal-Vadic, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, 06/80-05/82
In the year 1981, Adnan also motivated one of his classmates from High School to work with modems too. His name is Vedat Eyüboğlu, who was at that time a Ph.D. candidate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Vedat had before completed his undergraduate studies in electrical engineering at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. Vedat later became a Vice President of MOTOROLA, the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and the Founder of the hi-tech Firm Airvana, Inc. When Adnan's position at Racal-Vadic was terminated in 1982, he left the Silicon Valley California with an automobile and he drove east to Boston, Massachusetts, where he interviewed with ZOOM Telephonics, Inc.. He became a technical start-up advisor to ZOOM™ by pointing a new direction for this Company in modem(s) and data communications field. Adnan's talks encouraged and motivated the top two executives at ZOOM™, Frank Manning and Peter Kramer, by pointing a new direction for their Company. Frank Manning had earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). But Adnan did not join this Company in Boston. Instead he accepted a position at Proteon, Inc., where Adnan worked on a project for Search And Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking (SARSAT). Adnan's first task was to start up a new modem company in Boston to compete with the British Racal-Milgo and Racal-Vadic in California. And finally, that was the only outcome after a long and difficult journey across the United States, from San Francisco to Boston with a Volkswagen automobile (1982). ZOOM™ was just another small start-up company in Boston manufacturing speed-dialers for telephones. And today in 2012-2013, a Fortune 500 company manufacturing modems and other data communications products for the global market. Racal Electronics plc was once the third-largest British electronics firm. 
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NCR Corporation, Ithaca, N.Y., 05/79-06/80 (merged with
Axiohm IPB, Inc.)
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Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 09/78-05/79
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 Douglas C. Engelbart was the father of the computer's mouse in the 1960s at Stanford Research Institute (Patent-number: 3.541.541). But, from where did he get this idea, that a personal computer could have a mouse? Who first conceived of the idea??? He got this idea from a seven year old first grade elementary school student; indeed, student-number 172 Adnan Tuncel, at his Elementary School in İstanbul, Bakırköy Behram Ağa İlkokulu. After Adnan had seen for the first time a computer monitor in a classroom at his Elementary School in 1960, he explained in all detail that a computer's mouse could be built with a small rubber ball inside it, in order to move an arrow cursor on the computer's screen and to click. Adnan was describing a new concept in personal computing and he was seven years old. When asked what would one use this computer's mouse for, Adnan replied: "Facebook." And finally in 1983, a personal computer was introduced with a mouse for the first time by Apple Computers in Silicon Valley, California. It was an important year for country and mankind. But many years later, the small rubber ball inside the computer's mouse was replaced with laser technology. Adnan also believed that he was the first human being who "double-clicked" for the first time the mouse of a PC in a laboratory for country and mankind. This important moment was never recorded but it happened during this project at the PROTEON Company, where Adnan was working as an electrical engineer (1982-1984). He stumbled upon double-click when his project had a few push-button switches. At first, he was trying to do something else. Indeed, he wanted to eliminate the effect of a push-button switch from bouncing twice when he pressed, so that one would not do something twice accidentally. Inside this small problem was a large problem struggling to get out. After he had this problem solved, Adnan said: "Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction." Adnan even wrote a two page lab report about the multiple uses of the mouse, describing: 1. Double-click ("Open Sesame" function) 2. Press & Pull (Scoop function) In this special lab report he showed a way how to write software for all personal computers with a mouse. He used the word "Windows®" to describe a new Operating System (OS). Adnan further explained that at the top of the computers screen these four OS commands would always be displayed: File, Edit, View, Help. The windows would open (appear) and close (disappear) with menus inside the windows to operate a personal computer. The arrow cursor would be used to scroll and select OS commands from the menu. Any item on the menu, which is pointed by the arrow cursor would be marked (reverse imaged) to indicate that a selection is being made. After the selection process, the window would close and the computer's screen would return to normal. In conclusion, he wrote a comment: "I would found a company named Micro-soft™ to write software for all the microcomputers in the world." "A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." But later he forgot all about his thoughts and ideas while serving in the ARMY in TURKEY (1983-84). Today, Microsoft is the World's biggest Software Company. To visit Microsoft's Web site, please click here or view Homepage of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. 
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As a kid, his favorite hobby was to design creatively the unique patches for many soccer balls. As he was learning one day the basic geometrical shapes when he was in third grade Elementary School, Adnan discovered that the design of a soccer ball is made up by interconnecting hexagons and pentagons. When Adnan was still in Elementary School, he designed a new concept in construction cranes and he also drew architecture in High-School. When Adnan was still in the third grade Elementary School, he was very proud to design the interior architecture of the new Turkish Parliament TBMM in Ankara, Turkey. Adnan had also invented a food and he called it "Pizza". A photograph of his sister was etched on a metal surface by exposing it with the negative-film to intense light (i.e. photon bombardment). Adnan who was five-year-old at that time, was looking at the etched photo of his sister and argued, that "electron bombardment" could be used to etch the electronic circuits on a special materials surface. When asked what this material should be, he replied: "Coal???" Some of Adnan's other ideas were as follows:  • Q-tips or cotton swabs.• Filter tipped cigarettes. • Earbud headphones. • Adjustable hats. • Front-load washing machines. • Concrete pump. • Fast trains. • Cell phone. • Shopping mall. • Single European currency. • Inflation of money in Turkey. • Daylight Savings Time. (The clocks are turned forward / back one hour.) Adnan expressed most of his ideas by drawing.
When he was playing with a flying toy as a kid (1960), he conceived of the idea for a new invention: a flying vehicle, which would take off vertically and then it could fly further horizontally. Afterwards, it would also land vertically. He began sketching his flying vehicle to describe it perfectly to others in broad outline. But he did not know what to name this flying vehicle. One day his Math and Physics Teacher Dieter Buttkus at Istanbul German Lyceum had explained to Adnan what the greek word "heli" meant: "winding, spiral". Adnan remembered right away his flying toy as a kid. Later, he gathered a few of his classmates around him at his High School and he created a name for his flying vehicle: "Helicopter". Adnan had some creative design ideas for intercity busses as well and he then began sketching his new concept of these modern busses. Also in 1960, Adnan first conceived of the idea to design and build modern airplane turbine engines instead of propellers. He then described these air-engines exactly by sketching as they would be used by modern airplane companies such as Boeing and Airbus. He also drew modern fighter jets for the Air Force and new tanks for the Army. Adnan was never idle as a seven year old student at his elementary school. He also had a great interest in racing cars. After seeing the pictures of old racing cars at his School, Adnan was motivated to sketch a new and modern race car. He began drawing a picture of his new race car concept to describe it perfectly in broad outline. He also had to create a name for this race car: Formula One. This name meant that there was only one formula which applied to all the racing cars. They were all to be the same design. But the Americans wanted a different race car of their own. After some careful thought, Adnan sketched a new and uniquely different concept in racing cars for the Americans. It looked like a normal car with a painted number on both sides. He also created a new and different name for it: NASCAR. This name was derived from the Turkish word "NASIL?" and from the English word "CAR". When Adnan Tuncel was six years old, he proposed the construction of a major oil pipeline to carry petroleum from Baku, Azerbaijan to Ceyhan, Turkey on the coast of Mediterranean Sea. Adnan was simply against the idea of oil-tankers and other ships carrying petroleum through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles in Turkey. The project of this 1,099 miles long Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline got a head start by the Presidents of Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the year 2002 and when it was finished in the year 2006, crude oil started to flow from Azerbaijan to the coastal city of Ceyhan on the Mediterranean. And today, the Country of Azerbaijan earns about 30 billion dollars annually from this Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline. To see the route of this oil pipeline on the map, please click here. And in 1970, during a Geography Class at İstanbul German Lyceum, Adnan proposed to build a dam on the river Euphrates. The dam would be built both to generate electricity and to irrigate the plains in the region. Arable land in the plains in upper Mesopotamia would be irrigated via gravity-flow with water diverted from the dam through the tunnel system. The dam and the tunnel system were two major components of the project. It was also Adnan's Idea in High School to build many containers for international trade. These containers would then be transported by ships, trains (railway) and/or trucks. When his teacher, Klaus Stolzenberg, had asked Adnan: "How would you put these containers from ships onto railroad cars or trucks?", Adnan replied: "With cranes." These electronic cards, which are currently being used as credit cards or debit cards etc., were an idea of ADNAN TUNCEL when he was seven years old (1960). At the time of his invention, Adnan thought that the people could spend the money in their bank account electronically with the use of computer technology. Adnan had also thought, that the package-delivery requirements of the future could not all be handled by a postal service alone. Therefore, Adnan strongly recommended the establishment of two private delivery Companies, which he named: Federal Express (Fed Ex) and United Parcel Service (UPS). After he had drawn Logos for each of these Companies, he chose the colors for their delivery trucks as white and brown.  A visitor came to the Elementary School one day to talk to Adnan. The topic was the space travel and the rocket science for NASA. Adnan thought that it was possible to carry a space shuttle into outer space by adding two more side-rockets at a slight angle to the main rocket. The space shuttle would then be balanced to take off vertically and follow a straight path upwards into space. Once in outer space, the shuttle would navigate with three rockets on its back. The space shuttle would also have wings to fly back and land on earth. But the visitor, who came to the School, was very concerned about re-entering into the earth's atmosphere. He said that this vehicle would burn during the re-entering. Adnan argued that the space shuttle could be protected by a brick like surface. Each of these bricks would be made from a certain material, which would be prepared by baking them in an oven with fire. These bricks would cover all those areas to protect the flying space shuttle and be the heat shield during the re-entering into the earth's atmosphere. And when he was in High School, he thought that a mission to Planet Mars was also possible.In an algebra and geometry class at his High School (İstanbul German Lyceum), he came up with the idea of a mechanical billboard to display three different advertisements instead of just one by alternating and periodically changing the display from one ad to another. He also derived an equation to maximize the volume inside the mailboxes for the apartment buildings. Many years later, during a final exam, when he was a senior student at the Cornell University studying Electrical Engineering (1978), he discovered Manchester Encoding, without knowing that it had been already discovered in England at Manchester University. (Manchester code was first used in serial data communications.) One of his friends at Cornell University, Erhan Kudeki, consulted Adnan about dish antennas for DirecTV. In high school (the German Lyceum in Istanbul), Adnan envisioned such products: door, house and telecommunications, video monitoring for the SSS Siedle Company in Germany and in the year 1969, he also designed an emblem for the Technical University of Munich (TUM). 
After drawing this emblem, Adnan created the following zip code for Heidelberg, Germany: 69117. When Adnan was still a young child, he also created many names for the American, European and Japanese corporations and designed many logos for them. The following Names and their Symbols or the Logos were created by Adnan Tuncel: | ||||||||||||||||
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 His family roots are in Karaman, TURKEY. Adnan was born in 1954 at the German Hospital in Istanbul. He attended high school at Istanbul German Lyceum, which was a mathematical and scientific High School, founded in 1868. Countless ideas and drawings as child, which changed the world forever. When he was between the ages from nine to eighteen, he wrote many film stories and 999 poems for many songs. He wanted to be an architect when growing up. He drew architecture in high-school. Adnan immigrated to the United States when he was 18 years old in 1972. He participated in varsity soccer. 0: WESTCHESTER | ||||||||||||||||
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