Committee: Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options

Committee Membership Information


Project Title:	Wireless Technology Prospects and Policy Options
PIN:	CSTB-L-02-04-A
Major Unit:	Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences
Sub Unit:	DEPS Computer Science & Telecommuncations Board
RSO:	Eisenberg, Jon
Subject/Focus Area:

Committee Membership

Date Posted: 09/22/2003

Dr. David E. Liddle - (Chair)
U.S. Venture Partners

David Liddle, chair, is a general partner in the firm U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that specializes in building companies from early stage in digital communications, networking, wireless communications, semiconductors, technical software and e-ealth. He retired in December 1999 after 8 years as CEO of Interval Research Corporation. During and after his education (B.S., E.E., University of Michigan; Ph.D., computer science, University of Toledo, Ohio), Liddle has spent his professional career developing technologies for interaction and communication in activities spanning research, development, management and entrepreneurship. First, he spent ten years at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and the Xerox Information Products Group, where he was responsible for the first commercial implementation of the graphical user interface and local area networking. He then founded Metaphor Computer Systems, whose technology was adopted by IBM and the company ultimately acquired by IBM in 1991. In 1992, Liddle co-founded Interval Research Corporation with Paul Allen. During his tenure, the company formed six new companies and several joint ventures based on the research conducted at Interval. Liddle is a consulting professor of computer science at Stanford University. He has served as a director at Sybase, Broderbund Software, Metricom, Starwave and Ticketmaster; he is currently a director with The New York Times, in addition to numerous early-stage companies. He was honored as a distinguished alumnus from the University of Michigan and is a member of the national advisory committee at the College of Engineering of that University. He is also a member of the advisory committee of the School of Engineering at Stanford University, and of the College of Engineering at the University of California Berkeley. He has been elected a senior fellow of the Royal College of Art for his contributions to human-computer interaction. His current technology and investment interests are particularly focused upon signal processing, with emphasis on wireless communications.

Mr. Yochai Benkler
New York University

Yochai Benkler is a professor of law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law. Previously, Mr. Benkler had been a professor at New York University School of Law, where he was the director of the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy and of the Information Law Institute. Mr. Benkler received his J.D from Harvard Law School and his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University.

Dr. David E. Borth
Motorola Corporation

David Borth is an expert on wireless communications, with insight into national security as well as commercial needs. He is corporate vice president and director of the Communications Research Laboratories of Motorola Inc., a part of the company's research arm, Motorola Labs. Borth joined Motorola in 1980 as a member of the Systems Research Laboratory in corporate research and development in Schaumburg, Illinois. As a member of that organization, he has conducted research on digital modulation techniques, adaptive digital signal processing methods applied to communication systems, and personal communication systems including both cellular and PCS systems. He has contributed to Motorola's implementations of the GSM, TDMA (IS-54/IS-136), and CDMA (IS-95) digital cellular systems. In his current role, he manages a multinational (United States, Australia, France, Japan, United Kingdom) organization focusing on all aspects of communication systems ranging from theoretical systems studies to system and subsystem analysis and implementation to integrated circuit designs. Borth received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff of the systems division of Watkins-Johnson Company and an assistant professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Borth is a member of Motorola's Science Advisory Board Associates and has been elected a Dan Noble Fellow, Motorola's highest honorary technical award. He has been issued 31 patents and has authored or co-authored chapters of five books in addition to 25 publications. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Illinois Electrical and Computer Engineering Alumni Association and was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to the design and development of wireless telecommunication systems. He is a registered professional engineer in the state of Illinois. Borth was a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board from 2000-2003. He also served on the CSTB committee that produced the report Information Technology for Counter-Terrorism: Immediate Action and Future Possibilities (2003).

Prof. Robert W. Brodersen
University of California, Berkeley

Robert W. Brodersen is the John R. Whinnery Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the co-scientific director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center where his research focus is the application of integrated circuits as applied to personal communication systems with emphasis on wireless communications and low power design. Professor Brodersen's research is focused in the areas of low power design and wireless communications and the CAD tools necessary to support these activities. He has won best paper awards for a number of journal and conference papers in the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications, including the W.G. Baker Award in 1979. In 1982 he became a fellow of the IEEE. He was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris K. Liebmann Award in 1983. He received technical achievement awards in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986, from the Signal Processing Society in 1991 and in 1999 from the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobile Computing. Dr. Brodersen was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1988. In 1996, he received the IEEE Solid State Circuits Award. Professor Brodersen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden in 1999 and in 2000 he received the Millennium Award from the Circuits and Systems Society and the Golden Jubilee Award from the IEEE. In 2001 he was awarded the Lewis Winner Award for outstanding paper at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. He has served on the editorial board or as reviewer for numerous scholarly journals and publications including the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, IEEE Personal Communications Magazine and Wireless Personal Communications (Kluwer Press). He is the author or co-author of over 60 journal publications; 120 published conference papers; and author, co-author, editor or contributor to 14 books including An Anatomy of a Silicon Compiler (1992, Kluwer Academic Publishers), Low Power Digital CMOS Design (1995 Kluwer Academic Publishers). He received his Ph.D. degree in engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1972.

Dr. David D. Clark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David D. Clark graduated from Swarthmore College in 1966 and received his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1973. He has worked since then at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, where he is currently a senior research scientist in charge of the Advanced Network Architecture Group. Dr. Clark's research interests include networks, network protocols, operating systems, distributed systems, and computer and communications security. After receiving his Ph.D., he worked on the early stages of the ARPANET and on the development of token ring local area network technology. Since the mid-1970s, Dr. Clark has been involved in the development of the Internet. From 1981 to 1989, he acted as chief protocol architect in this development and chaired the Internet Activities Board. His current research area is protocols and architectures for very large and very high-speed networks. Specific activities include extensions to the Internet to support real-time traffic, explicit allocation of service, pricing, and new network technologies. In the security area, Dr. Clark participated in the early development of the multi-level secure Multics operating system. He developed an information security model that stresses integrity of data rather than disclosure control. Dr. Clark is a fellow of the ACM and the IEEE and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the ACM SIGCOMM award and the IEEE award in International Communications, as well as the IEEE Hamming Award for his work on the Internet. He is a consultant to a number of companies and serves on a number of technical advisory boards. Dr. Clark is currently chair of the CSTB (term ending June 30, 2004). He chaired the committee that produced the CSTB report Computers at Risk: Safe Computing in the Information Age and served on the committees that produced several CSTB reports.

Dr. Thomas E. Darcie
University of Victoria

Thomas (Ted) Darcie received his Ph.D. degree in aerospace physics from the University of Toronto in 1982. Currently, he is a professor at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, holding a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Optical Systems for Communications, Imaging and Sensing. Previously he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories at Crawford Hill, Holmdel, New Jersey where he joined the technical staff to study a wide variety of topics related to lightwave telecommunications, including fiber fabrication processes, semiconductor lasers, optical amplifiers, and numerous modulation and multiplexing techniques. He has been a lead figure in the development of lightwave systems for analog applications in cable television and wireless systems. As head of access communications research at AT&T Bell Laboratories (1989-1995), he was responsible for technology innovation in wireless, lightwave, and hybrid fiber-coax systems. He has authored over one hundred technical publications and 25 patents spanning this broad set of technologies. From 1995 to 2002, he was vice president at AT&T Laboratories, in charge of Communications Infrastructure Research. His research laboratory provided technology support for AT&T’s diverse requirements in optical networking, broadband access, fixed wireless access, wireless LAN, and cellular systems. His team worked closely with AT&T businesses to provide technical expertise and vision and has numerous programs devoted to the evolution of mobile and broadband services, applications, and technologies. From 2002-2003, he was AT&T Labs’ Network Architecture and Strategic Operations Planning vice president, with responsibility for connecting innovative network technologies with opportunities within AT&T’s network. Dr. Darcie is an AT&T fellow, a fellow of the IEEE, and is currently a member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board.

Mr. Dale N. Hatfield
University of Colorado at Boulder

Dale N. Hatfield is currently an independent consultant and adjunct professor in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU). Between December 2000 and April 2002, Hatfield served as chair of the program. Prior to joining CU, Hatfield was the chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and immediately before that was chief technologist at the agency. Before joining the Commission in December 1997, he was CEO of Hatfield Associates, Inc., a Boulder, Colorado-based multidisciplinary telecommunications consulting firm for 15 years. Before that, he was deputy assistant secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and deputy administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Before moving to NTIA, Hatfield was chief of the Office of Plans and Policy at the FCC. In 1973 Hatfield received a Department of Commerce Silver Medal for contributions to domestic communications satellite policy and in 1999 he received the Attorney General's Distinguished Service Award. In 2000, he received the PCIA Foundation's Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication in government service and the FCC's Gold Medal Award for distinguished service. More recently, he received the distinguished engineer award from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He currently is a fellow of the Radio Club of America. In February 2001, the FTC appointed Hatfield Monitor Trustee in the AOL/Time Warner merger. Currently, Hatfield is serving on the board of directors of Crown Castle International and until recently KBDI TV-12 Public Television in Denver. Hatfield holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Case Institute of Technology and an M.S. in industrial management from Purdue University.

Dr. Michael Katz
University of California, Berkeley

Michael Katz is the Edward J. and Mollie Arnold Professor of Business Administration of the Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group and Director of the Center for Telecommunications and Digital Convergence at the University of California, Berkeley. From 2001-02, he was Deputy Assistant Attorney General for economic analysis, in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. From 1994-96, he was Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission. He is co-editor of the California Management Review and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy. He is a former member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He received his Ph.D in economics from Oxford University.

Dr. Paul Kolodzy
Kolodzy Consulting, LLC

Paul J. Kolodzy is director of the Wireless Network Security Center (WiNSeC), a new research facility at Stevens Institute of Technology that will draw on wide-ranging expertise to design, develop and evaluate technology for the secure transmission of voice, video, and data. He is also is a professor in the schools of Engineering and Technology Management at Stevens. Previously, Dr. Kolodzy had been appointed as the Senior Spectrum Policy at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and he was also chair of the FCC’s newly created Spectrum Policy Task Force, that was charged with examining spectrum allocation processes and other issues so that spectrum can be put the highest and best use in a timely manner. Before joining the FCC, Dr. Kolodzy served as a program manager within the Advanced Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) at the Department of Defense. At DARPA, he oversaw the development of next generation communications technology which included the neXt Generation Communications (XG) initiative. The XG project is developing technology that has the potential to fundamentally change the manner of which spectrum is allocated and assigned. Dr. Kolodzy has also held positions at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and Lockheed Martin Corporation in the development and management of advanced signal processing, RF, and EO systems. Dr. Kolodzy received a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University in chemical engineering and a Master of Science and Doctorate in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University. His doctoral work focused on laser measurement systems.

Dr. Lawrence Larson
University of California, San Diego

Larry Larson is professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Center for Wireless Communications at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Dr. Larson's research ranges from electronic circuits and systems, to electronic devices and materials. Larson develops high-speed circuits based on InP (indium-phosphide) and GaAs (gallium arsenide) as well as Silicon Germanium and CMOS technology. He also explores applications for micromachining technology in the manufacture of high-speed integrated circuits, and studies new packaging technology for them. Dr. Larson's current research is specifically also focused on low-power circuit design and RF design techniques for wireless communications. He recently completed CDMA Mobile Radio Design, a book on how to design the hardware and software for wireless handsets based on code-division multiple access technology. CDMA is the foundation of all third-generation wireless technologies, including Europe's W-CDMA standard and CDMA2000. As director of the industry-sponsored Center for Wireless Communications (CWC) at UCSD, Dr. Larson is in a unique position to comment on the development and deployment of 3G wireless, including new generations of circuits. He oversees a wide range of ongoing research projects, with funding from CWC's 17 corporate members. He is the first holder of the Communications Industry endowed chair at the Jacobs School. He joined the UCSD faculty in 1996, after a 16-year career at Hughes Research Laboratories. There, he pioneered the development of analog integrated circuits and low-noise HEMTs in III-V technology, as well as microwave integrated circuits in SiGe HBT technology and RF MEMs technology. Dr. Larson received his Ph.D. from University of California, Los Angeles in 1986. He is an IEEE fellow and co-winner of the 1996 Hughes Electronics Lawrence Hyland Patent Award and the 1999 IBM Microelectronics Excellence Award.

Dr. David P. Reed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

David P. Reed is a fellow at HP Labs and adjunct professor, MIT Media Laboratory. Reed's work focuses using digital technology to transform the design of technological, business, and social systems. His current explorations center on exploiting new information technologies that enables people to be more effective, including mobile computing; highly scalable wireless networking; group information sharing; pervasive networking; video media processing; and infrastructures for electronic commerce. Reed spent four years at Interval Research Corporation, exploring portable and consumer media technology. For seven years prior to joining Interval, Dr. Reed was vice president and chief scientist for Lotus Development Corporation, where he led the design and implementation of key products, including 1-2-3, and technical business strategy. Dr. Reed was also a professor in MIT's Laboratory for Computer Science. He is co-inventor of the end-to-end argument, often called the fundamental architectural principle of the Internet. Dr. Reed holds a B.S. in electrical engineering and M.S and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from MIT.

Dr. Gregory Rosston
Stanford University

Gregory Rosston is the deputy director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. His research focuses on industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. He has written numerous articles on competition in local telecommunications, implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, auctions and spectrum policy. He has also co-edited two books, including Interconnection and the Internet: Selected Papers from the 1996 Telecommunications Policy Research Conference. Prior to joining Stanford University, Dr. Rosston served as deputy chief economist of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). At the FCC, he helped to implement the Telecommunications Act. In this work, he helped to design and write the rules the Commission adopted as a framework to encourage efficient competition in telecommunications markets. He also helped with the design and implementation of the FCC's spectrum auctions. Dr. Rosston received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University and his A.B. in economics with honors from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. David Skellern
Cisco Systems Inc.

David Skellern is currently the technology director for Cisco's Wireless Networking Business Unit.
He has been a consultant for leading companies in the US, Europe, and Japan on the development of multiservice and broadband communications networks. He held a senior staff faculty position at Hewlett Packard Laboratories from 1993 to 1999. In 1989, Dr. Skellern joined Macquarie University as professor of electronics. While at Macquarie University, he worked to develop the core technologies that led to the formation of Radiata Communications Pty Ltd., in 1997. He received the B.Sc. (1972), B.E. (1974) and Ph.D. (1985) degrees from the University of Sydney.

Statement of Committee Composition

Effective November 2007, the committee membership changed with the resignation of Dr. Andrea Goldsmith.