At 36,000 feet, Wi-Fi converts our airline seats to remote offices.
It lets us read email in airports, watch video in coffee shops, and
listen to music at home. Wi-Fi is everywhere. But where did it come
from?
Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio takes us back to when the Internet
was first gaining popularity, email took ten minutes to load up,
and cell phones were big and unwieldy. But Alex Hills had a vision:
people carrying small handheld devices that were always connected.
His unwavering purpose was to change the way we use the Internet.
After being a teenage "ham operator" and bringing radio, TV and
telephone service to the Eskimos of northern Alaska, Dr. Hills led
a small band of innovators to overcome "the bad boys of radio" -
the devilishly unpredictable behavior of radio waves - and build
the network that would become the forerunner to today's Wi-Fi.
"I know of no one so capable of telling the Wi-Fi story and
explaining so clearly how the technology works. Alex Hills is
certain to capture the public imagination with this new
book."
Jim Geier, Principal Consultant, Wireless-Nets, Ltd. and Wi-Fi
author
"Alex Hills has contributed to the developing world and to
developing advanced wireless technology at one of the world's most
tech-savvy universities. Working on both frontiers, Dr. Hills
pioneered wireless Internet and launched a revolution in the way
the world communicates. His story of how we "cut the cord" begins
in a place where there were no cords to begin with -- remote
Alaska."
Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and former Chair,
United States Arctic Research Commission
Alex Hills is Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering &
Public Policy and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie
Mellon University. Dr. Hills is frequently invited to speak at
conventions, conferences, university seminars, corporate training
sessions, and community events. His talks, with their vivid stories
and clear explanations of technology, have been well-received by
audiences throughout the United States and in more than twenty
foreign countries. An inventor with eleven patents, Dr. Hills can
write and speak in technical jargon. But in his writing, as in his
talks, he speaks to everyone -- technical specialists and the
public alike. People of all backgrounds have been fascinated by his
contributions to Scientific American and IEEE Spectrum magazines --
articles that explain technology in a style that is clear to any
reader.
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