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Appendix A: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 87-95

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From page 87...
... , Liddle has spent his professional career developing tech­ nologies for interaction and communication in research, development, management, and entrepreneurship. First, he spent 10 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.
From page 88...
... Price Award from the American Political Science Association for best book on science, tech­ nology, and politics; the American Sociological Association's CITASA Book Award for an outstanding book related to the sociology of communi­ cations or information technology; the Donald McGannon Award for best book on social and ethical relevance in communications policy research; and was named best business book about the future by the magazine strategy+business. In civil society, Benkler's work was recognized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award in 2007 and by the Public Knowledge IP3 Award in 2006.
From page 89...
... He is also the coscientific direc ­ tor of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, where he works on the application of integrated circuits as applied to personal communication systems, with an emphasis on wireless communications and low power design. Brodersen's research is focused in the areas of low­power design and wireless communications and the CAD tools necessary to support these activities.
From page 90...
... 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
From page 91...
... His research laboratory provided technology sup­ port 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 had numerous programs devoted to the evolution of mobile and broadband services, applications, and technologies.
From page 92...
... Paul J kolodzy is currently a technology consultant in advanced wireless and networking technology, drawing on 20 years of experience in technol­ ogy development for advanced communications, networking, electronic warfare, and spectrum policy for government, commercial, and academic clients.
From page 93...
... Reed's work focuses on using digital technology to transform the design of technological, business, and social systems. His explorations center on exploiting new information technolo­ gies that enable 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.
From page 94...
... Radiata was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc., in 2001 for 565 million Australian dollars, at which time Skellern joined Cisco and subsequently moved to the United States as technology director of the Wireless Networking Business Unit. Skellern was appointed to the NICTA board in 2003.
From page 95...
... Agency for International Development, where he worked on environmental management, technol­ ogy transfer, and information and telecommunications policy issues. He received his Ph.D.


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