Charles Hayden

    Email: 
    home: chayden@comcast.net 
    work: chayden@avaya.com 
    Address: 
    3 Cypress Ct 
    Fair Haven, NJ 07704 
    Phone: 
    home: 732 747-8560
    work: 732 852-2417 
    cellular: 732 309-0406
    Photo of charles hayden 

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    New Stuff

    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Family Photo Gallery
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Hiking Gallery
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Catskill Hikes
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Scheme Interpreter, Feb 2003
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) New Job, Jan 2003
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Sierra Trip, July 2002

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    Miscellaneous

    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Eliza in Java
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) My Software
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Places to Run
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Near Holmdel Bell Labs
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Near Murray Hill Bell Labs
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Navesink Area
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Fair Haven
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Running with a GPS
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Driving to work
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Family Photo Gallery
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Hiking Gallery

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    Hikes and Adventures -- With Pictures

    s97-icon.jpg (1848 bytes) My hikes and adventures

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    Other Illustrated Subjects

    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Ben's Graduation (May 2000)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Recent Family Snapshots (October 1999)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Silver Wedding Anniversary (June 1999)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Philadelphia Marathon (November 1999)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Jersey Shore Marathon (April 1999)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Family Snapshots (December 1988)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Family Snapshots (1997)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Building a house (1992)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Pictures taken at work (Bell Labs)
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Aerial photos of New Jersey
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Panoramas
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Carrie's Home Page
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Ben's Home Page
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) My Parents' Home Page
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Our Dogs' Page

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    My Interests

    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Running, Basketball, Ballroom dancing
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Hiking, Backpacking
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Distributed software systems
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Embedded languages, especially for use in distributed applications.  I have a particular interest in scheme.
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Componentized software, especially Microsoft COM

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    My Job

    I work at Avaya.  I am building software that provides the SIP infrastructure for the Communication Manager switching products. 

    Before that I worked at Sonus Networks, building a class 5 grade softswitch for IP-based telephony.  Unfortunately the hard times in the telephony industry, and a few decsions that turned out to be not the best, led to the curtailment of that project, and left me unemployed.

    My thoughts on Bell Labs:

    I used work at Bell Labs -- part of Lucent Technologies.  After 20 years with the company, I finally gave up hope that it would get its act together, so I left.  For many years I was content to design and build great products that were doomed to failure in the marketplace because of poor marketing or sales.   What finally convinced me to leave was when we couldn't even design good products.

    Since I left Bell Labs, it has seen one disaster after another: its stock has fallen 80% 90%, it has fired its CEO, it has come under SEC investigation, it has restated its earnings several times.  Now I wonder if it will survive.  I am really sorry to see it come to this - so much squandered.

    My patents at Bell Labs:

    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Computer Telephony User Interface 4,653,090
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Audiographics Teleconferencing 4,953,159

    My Projects at Bell Labs:

    bullet.gif (943 bytes) The last project I worked on was the Lucent Softswitch.  I was involved in providing an external programming interface for it.  The first step was making the standards, which means I was heavily involved in JTAPI, JAIN, and Parlay.
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) Before that I worked implementing VoiceXML, a language for programming telephone media systems such as voice response systems.
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) I  worked for a time as an internal consultant to teams in Lucent who were exploring the adoption of Windows NT and especially COM and DCOM.  I helped organizations who wanted to use this technology in their products.
    bullet.gif (943 bytes) In 1997 and a998 I was part of a team developing the Virtual Telephone.  We announced this product at CTExpo in March 1998, and I was there to demonstrate it in action.  Unfortunately, Lucent cannot see the value in this product, and has decided not to market it.

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