Department of Commerce's Office of Telecommunications. At the academy, he was an active member of the Committee on Telecommunications from 1974 to 1978 and served as chairman of its study panel involving the U.S. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971. Jack Baird's professional affiliations included being named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1969 he was also named a member of the Newcomen Society in North America in 1970 and a member of the National Society of Professional Engineers' industry advisory group in 1981. Jack Baird brought good judgment and good sense to the practice of systems engineering, thus paving the way for modern-day data networking and the computers it links. Far ahead of his time, he implemented the necessary combination of operations research, technical planning, and technology assessment so AT&T and other organizations could cope with the demands of large, complex electronic communications systems serving both civilian and military purposes. telecommunications network-died May 23, 1986, of a coronary occlusion at the age of sixty-four.
Jack Anthony Baird, who, during more than ten years of his career at AT&T and Bell Laboratories, guided the planning of engineering for the world's largest computing system-the U.S.
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