ICTP Colloquium Friday 1 April 2011

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*ICTP COLLOQUIUM*

*16:00, Friday, 1 April 2011*

*The Luigi Stasi Seminar Room, Leonardo Building, ICTP*

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*The Innovation Journey of Wi-Fi*

Ing. Vic Hayes

/Senior Research Fellows, Delft University of Technology, /

/The Netherlands/

About the speaker:

Victor Hayes, nicknamed "the Father of Wi-Fi", was born in 
Surabaya, Netherlands-Indies at that time, in 1941. He repatriated 
with his family in 1950 to the Netherlands and received his B.E. 
degree from the "HTS Amsterdam" in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in 1961.

He served as Co-Founder (1990) and first time Chair of IEEE 802.11, 
Working Group for Wireless LANs (9.75 years of Chairmanship) and later 
as Ombudsman Radio Regulations at the IEEE 802 Executive Committee 
(2000-2002).

He was the Founder and first time Chair of the Regulatory Committee at 
the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Industry Association related to IEEE 802.11 
(2001-2003).

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