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. He graduated from Wood-Ridge

High School in 1955 and then served as an electrician's mate in the United States Navy (1955-1959). After being honorably discharged from the service, Mr. Cummiskey attended Fairleigh Dickinson University where he received the Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. In June 1962, he was employed by Bell Telephone Laboratories as a technical aide. In June 1966, he received a Master

of Science in Electrical Engineering from Newark College of Engineering and advanced to Associate Member of Staff at Bell Laboratories. During the past ten years at Bell Laboratories, Mr. Cummiskey developed experimental circuits used in speech research. The topic of his master's thesis was the design of a terminal-analog speech synthesizer. The author was also called upon to interface equipment to small digital computers and to program them. This led to the work with adaptive delta modulation and ADPCM.