{{Short description|American electrical engineer and businessman}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Vanu Bose | birth_name = Vanu Amar Bose | birth_date = {{Birth date|1965|04|29}} | birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. | death_date = {{Death date and age|2017|11|11|1965|10|04|mf=y}} | death_place = Carlisle, Massachusetts, U.S. | education = MIT | occupation = Electrical engineer; founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc. | net_worth = <!-- Net worth should be supported with a citation from a reliable source --> | relatives = Amar Bose (father) }} {{Infobox company | name = Vanu, Inc. | type = Private | foundation = {{start date and age|1998}} | location_city = Cambridge, Massachusetts | location_country = U.S. | homepage = {{URL|vanu.com}} }}
'''Vanu Gopal Bose''' (October 4, 1965 – November 11, 2017) was an American electrical engineer and the founder of Vanu Inc. He was the son of Amar Bose, the founder of Bose Corporation.<ref name="nyt">{{Cite news |title= Software That Fills a Cellphone Gap |author= Michael Fitzgerald |date= September 23, 2007 |work= The New York Times |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/technology/23prototype.html |access-date= February 25, 2017 }}</ref>
== Life and career == Bose was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1965 to Amar Bose and Prema Sarathy Bose. His parents later divorced.<ref name="SilverGreenberg2017">{{Cite web| title = Vanu Bose, Who Brought Cellular Service to Remote Areas, Dies at 52| first = Jessica | last = Silver-Greenberg| work = The New York Times| date = November 14, 2017| access-date = May 30, 2018| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/obituaries/vanu-bose-dead-brought-cellular-service-to-remote-areas.html}}</ref> He attended Wayland High School and graduated in 1983. He attended his father's alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology and graduated with a BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematics in 1988, he earned an MS in 1994, and a PhD in 1999.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Vanu Bose, '87, SM '94, PhD '99 |work= Alumni profile for EECS Connector |date= 2015 |publisher= MIT |url= https://www.eecs.mit.edu/people/alumni/alumni-eecs-connector-2015/vanu-bose-87-sm-94-phd-99 |access-date= February 25, 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> He was the founder and CEO of Vanu, Inc., a firm that markets software-defined radio technology.<ref name="forbes">{{cite news | url=https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2002/1125/138.html | title=Dead Air | work=Forbes | date=November 25, 2002 | access-date=January 13, 2013 | author= Scott Woolley }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= My Father Couldn't Have Done In India What He Did With Bose Corp In US |work= Business World |date= December 15, 2015 |author= Suchetana Ray |url= http://businessworld.in/article/-My-Father-Couldn-t-Have-Done-In-India-What-He-Did-With-Bose-Corp-In-US-/15-12-2015-89393/ |access-date= February 25, 2017 }}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2017-11-12 |title=Vanu Bose, software pioneer and MIT Corporation member, dies at 52 |url=https://news.mit.edu/2017/vanu-bose-software-pioneer-mit-corporation-member-dies-52-1111 |access-date=2023-06-08 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}</ref> The company uses technology based on his graduate research work, called SpectrumWare, under supervisors David L. Tennenhouse and John Guttag.<ref>{{Cite book |author1=D.L. Tennenhouse |author2=V.G. Bose |title=Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking - MobiCom '95 |chapter=SpectrumWare |date= November 13, 1995 |publisher= ACM |doi= 10.1145/215530.215551 |pages= 37–41 |isbn= 0-89791-814-2 |s2cid= 16079475 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title= Design and Implementation of Software Radios Using a General Purpose Processor |author= Vanu G. Bose |date= June 1999 |publisher= MIT PhD dissertation }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= Software Radios for Wireless Networking |author= Vanu G. Bose, Alok B. Shah and Michael Ismert |work= Infocomm '98: Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies |date= March 29, 1998 |publisher= IEEE |isbn= 978-0-7803-4384-9|citeseerx= 10.1.1.47.9298 }}</ref> The technology was licensed from MIT in 1999 after several rounds of negotiation.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Bose and Arrows: MIT Seeds Inventions But Wants a Nice Cut Of Profits They Yield |date= September 1999 |work= Wall Street Journal classroom edition |author= Amy Dockser Marcus |url= http://info.wsj.com/classroom/archive/wsjce.99sept.seriousbiz.html |access-date= February 25, 2017 |archive-date= February 26, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170226134331/http://info.wsj.com/classroom/archive/wsjce.99sept.seriousbiz.html |url-status= dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title= NRI scientists who turned research into successful businesses |author= Ishani Duttagupta |work= The Economic Times |date= July 23, 2012 |url= http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/15079279.cms |access-date= February 25, 2017 }}</ref>
In November 2004, its Anywave technology became the first use of software-defined radio certified by the US Federal Communications Commission, and ADC Telecommunications announced it would manufacture related hardware.<ref>{{Cite news |title= FCC Certifies ADC Equipment For Use With Software Defined Radio Deployments |work= Wireless Design Online |date= January 20, 2005 |url= https://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/doc/fcc-certifies-adc-equipment-for-use-with-soft-0001 |access-date= February 26, 2017 }}</ref> In 2005, work with India's Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) was announced to use its technology for base transceiver stations at cell sites in rural India.<ref>{{Cite news |title= C-DOT and Vanu Inc. enter into strategic partnership to focus on Rural Communication needs |work= Press release |publisher= India Ministry of Communications and Information Technology |date= March 2, 2005 |url= http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelcontent.aspx?relid=7462 |access-date= February 26, 2017 }}</ref> By 2008, a telecommunications provider in India was reported to be testing the technology.<ref>{{Cite news |title= New technology may cut wireless network equipment cost by half |author= Pankaj Mishra |work= Live Mint |date= January 27, 2008 |url= http://www.livemint.com/Industry/0VTkezRcRzWBYdtgnk30pO/New-technology-may-cut-wireless-network-equipment-cost-by-ha.html |access-date= February 26, 2017 }}</ref>
A venture capital investment of $9 million in 2007 from Charles River Ventures was followed by $32 million in 2008, from an arm of the Tata Group, Norwest Venture Partners.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Software Radio Maker Vanu Raises $32M From Tata, Norwest & CRV |work= VC Circle on Giga Om |date= September 1, 2008 |url= https://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/419-software-radio-maker-vanu-raises-32m-from-tata-norwest-crv/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150310050117/https://gigaom.com/2008/09/01/419-software-radio-maker-vanu-raises-32m-from-tata-norwest-crv/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= March 10, 2015 |access-date= February 26, 2017 }}</ref> A subsidiary, Vanu Coverage Company, announced $3.2 million investment in 2012.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Vanu Coverage calls in $3.2M in equity |author= Don Seiffert |work= Mass High tech |date= May 8, 2012 |url= http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/mass-high-tech/2012/05/vanu-coverage-calls-in-32m-in-equity.html |access-date= February 25, 2017 }}</ref>
He took his technology to many countries and regions that otherwise would have had no access. Shortly before his death, he donated durable solar-powered cellular sites to the devastated island of Puerto Rico to assist in the location of family members following the devastation by hurricanes in 2017.<ref>Silver-Greenbergnov, Jessica, [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/obituaries/vanu-bose-dead-brought-cellular-service-to-remote-areas.html?emc=edit_th_20171115&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=68634180 Vanu Bose, Who Brought Cellular Service to Remote Areas, Dies at 52], The New York Times, November 15, 2017, page B13, New York edition</ref>
== Personal life == Bose married Judith L. Hill in September 2007.<ref>{{Cite news |title= Pair wed in garden |date= December 12, 2007 |work= Amherst Bee |url= http://www.amherstbee.com/news/2007-12-12/lifestyles/127.html |access-date= February 25, 2017 |archive-date= February 26, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170226131243/http://www.amherstbee.com/news/2007-12-12/lifestyles/127.html |url-status= dead }}</ref> They have one daughter. Bose died suddenly in Carlisle, Massachusetts on November 11, 2017, of a pulmonary embolism, aged 52.<ref name="SilverGreenberg2017" /><ref name="Dizikes2017" /><ref name=":0" />
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