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Marian Croak

Voice over IP inventor
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Marian Croak
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Marian Rogers Croak (born May 14, 1955) is an African American engineer known for her voice over IP (VoIP) related inventions. Croak worked for three decades at Bell Labs and AT&T where she filed over 200 patents, and has worked at Google since 2014 as Vice President of Engineering, In 2022, she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work with VoIP.

Born May 14, 1955, Croak was raised in New York City. She credits her lifelong interest in technology to her father. Though he had only an elementary school education, he built her a chemistry set that led to her early… More on Wikipedia →

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Croak pioneers Voice over IP at AT&T

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Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also known as IP telephony, is a set of technologies used primarily for voice communication sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) netw…

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