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Cellular Telephone Pioneer Honored by SAE

2 February 1999

Cellular Telephone Pioneer Honored by SAE

    WARRENDALE, Pa., Feb. 2 -- The Society of Automotive
Engineers will honor T. Russell Shields, chairman, Navigation Technologies
Inc., Sunnyvale, California, with its SAE/Delco Intelligent Transportation
Systems Award.
    SAE President-elect Donald W. Ableson will present Shields with the award
at a special convocation at the 1999 SAE International Congress & Exposition
in Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan on Tuesday, March 2, 1999.
    The award recognizes individuals whose outstanding technical
accomplishment is judged to have significantly advanced the state of the art
in Intelligent Transportation Systems.
    Since the mid 1980s, Shields has taken a leadership role in the conception
and development of Intelligent Transportation Systems.  Shields has dedicated
his efforts and the resources of his company toward promoting the rapid and
successful deployment of ITS, including significant work on standards, safety
and telecommunications.
    Beginning in the early 1980s, Shields was a pioneer in the creation and
expansion of the cellular telephone industry.  He was a founder of Cellular
Business Systems, the single most successful cellular services organization of
the decade.
    Shields also participated in the founding of the Cellular Telephone
Industry Association (CTIA) and establishing it as a major force in cellular
telephony.
    The SAE Congress is the world's largest showcase of automotive engineering
technologies.  The event, which runs March 1-4, features more than 1,100
exhibiting companies, including 90 percent of the world's top 25 suppliers.
    For further information or to register for SAE Congress, call
1-877-SAE-CONG (723-2664); outside U.S./Canada, 1-724-772-4027; or visit
http://www.sae.org.

    Journalists can obtain more information on SAE Congress by visiting the
SAE website at http://www.sae.org/media.