John Treichler, Applied Signal Technology, Inc.
 

This talk projects which wireless services will be economically important over the next few years and therefore the ones that we should be developing the technology for. We first examine first four major historic trends in how voice and data telecommunications services have been offered and then turn to a market-driven discussion about which service consumers and businesses are likely to pay for. Comparing these two perspectives lead to the conclusion that wireless service is likely to bifurcate into two -- a narrowband, ubiquitous service optimized for voice and a very wideband, very short distance service suited to bursty transfer of data.
 

Biography:

John Treichler received his BA and MEE degrees from Rice University, Houston, TX in 1970 and his PhDEE from Stanford in 1977. He served as a line officer in the US Navy from 1970 to 1974.  In 1977 he joined ARGOSystems in Sunnyvale CA and then helped found Applied Signal Technology, Inc. in 1984. He is currently their Chief Technical Officer. During the 1983-1984 academic year he was an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University.  He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1992 and received the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement award in 2000. He was also awared the IEEE's Third Millenium Medal that year.