In 2007, the ITSF created an annual Time Lord Award, in recognition of significant contribution to the telecom timing community.
Mike Garvey with National Bureau of Standards Primary Atomic Cesium Beam Clock circa 1978
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The first award was made to Dr R. Michael Garvey, who is Chief Technical Officer at Symmetricom Technology Realisation Center in Beverley, Massachusetts.
Throughout his career, Dr Garvey has been involved in the design of atomic frequency standards. He lead the design team which developed the first microprocessor controlled atomic frequency standard. He has been intimately involved in development of cesium beam frequency standards for the Global Positioining System. He has lead the development of chip scale atomic clocks. He has overall responsibility for the development of new atomic clock technologies at Symmetricom.
Mike was presented with an Armillary Sphere and the first Time Lord Award certificate, by Charles Curry, Chairman of the ITSF Steering Group at the annual dinner on 14th November 2007.
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