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Dr. Terrence P. McGarty is a Senior Research Associate in the Research Laboratory of Electronics ("RLE") which is part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. McGarty has been with the MIT research and teaching staff from time to time since 1965 and has rejoined EECS in the early Spring of 2005 and rejoined RLE in the Spring of 2009. Dr. McGarty has recently been involved in multiple venture start-up companies as both a manager and investor in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Dr. McGarty was also a Group President at Warner Cable Television, a Senior Vice President and COO of NYNEX Mobile, now Verizon Wireless, and an Assistant Vice President at COMSAT.
In 1980 he left COMSAT and joined Warner Cable and became a Group President in charge of the first two way cable system providing telephony and full motion video on demand on cable. Dr. McGarty and his team developed the first practical technology for the deployment and operations of packetized video in 1982. In 1986 he joined NYNEX first as head of R&D and then became Senior Vice President and COO of the NYNEX cellular company responsible for the first development and deployment of CDMA. In 1992 Dr McGarty re-joined Telmarc, an investment and advisory company he had earlier founded, and became involved in multiple start up opportunities in telecommunications. He financed and ran a CLEC, an international VOIP company, and international fiber company located in Prague, and an optical communications company in Israel. He currently is focusing efforts on investment in wireless and fiber to the home in the United States and wireless in international investments and operations. Dr. McGarty was on the MIT Faculty from 1969 through 1975 in EECS and returned for the Academic Year 1988-1989. He was also on the faculty and a Professor at: George Washington University (Electrical Engineering) from 1975 thru 1980, at Polytechnic University (Engineering) from 1988 thru 1991, and at Columbia University (School of Business) from 1996 thru 1997.
Research FocusDr. McGarty's primary research has recently returned to the biological areas focusing on the modeling of genetic systems in plants and disease mechanisms. The details of the genetic research areas are discussed herein. Dr. McGarty has been expanding his research into bioinformatics specifically the areas of gene control of plant color and patterning. This area of gene research focuses on applying engineering principles to controlling genes and secondary pathways. The choice of target species is driven by the wealth of genetic hybridization records on the Genus Hemerocallis and the ability to manage the genes through hybridization. The focus on Dr. McGarty's efforts are in addressing the match between academic research and the needs of the commercial world, both in the United States and outside of the U.S. Dr. McGarty has strong international ties to researchers and commercial senior business operators in over twenty five countries.
Contact InformationStudents, Faculty and other researchers may contact Dr. McGarty via one of the following means:
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Last modified: 05/21/09 |
Dr. McGarty obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science in 1971. His doctoral thesis was in the area of optical
and image processing, focusing also on medical imaging. He also studied in the
HST program, a joint program with MIT and Harvard. He remained at MIT until 1975 teaching in the Department
and performing research at Lincoln Laboratories. His teaching was in the areas of
stochastic processes, estimation and control. with specific focus on the
"inversion problem" where one seeks to determine the internal structure of
objects resulting from probing signals. In 1975 he left MIT and he went to
Washington and spent time at COMSAT with three
other MIT faculty members. He remained there until 1980. At COMSAT he became an Assistant Vice President of the Equipment
Integration Group, where he supported the first connection of the ARPA Net to
satellites, developed the first VSAT, and worked for various government
agencies.