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Lanny S. Smoot Bellcore, Morristown Smoot is credited with the invention and prototyping of the electronic panning camera for multi-user interactive applications and large screen teleconferencing. The panning camera allows networked subscribers unprecedented control over their individual views of remote sites. Large screen teleconferencing gives participants the feeling of direct intimacy and reality -- namely that other parties are actually just sitting across the table and not miles away. Smoot currently holds joint management responsibilities in applied research at Bellcore. He is the executive director of the Information Networking Applications Research Department. He is responsible for research on leading-edge, networked, multimedia applications such as a desk-top teleconferencing system, video-on-demand research and prototyping, large-screen teleconferencing, signal processing, speech synthesis and other projects. He is also executive director of Bellcore's Collaboratory on Information Infrastructure, where he has responsibility for generating external funding. Smoot currently holds 21 U.S. patents. He earned a bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Columbia University and was a Bell Labs Engineering Scholar.