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2017 The IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award (with David Skellern) "for pioneering contributions to high-speed wireless LAN technology."; 2013 M A Sargent Medal; 2012 The European Inventor Award 2012 awarded by European Patent Office for having "made the wireless LAN as fast and powerful as the cabled solutions of the time, and is the basis for the wireless networking technology (Wi ...
John O'Sullivan (columnist) (born 1942), British conservative columnist and editor John O'Sullivan (engineer) , Australian astronomer and electrical engineer, and one of the inventors of Wi-Fi Sir John O'Sullivan (soldier) (1700–1760), Irish soldier, Quartermaster general to Prince Charles Edward Stewart during the Jacobite Rising of 1745
[2] developed with colleagues which include John O'Sullivan, Terence Percival and Neil Weste, and in particular the first chip-set implementation of the IEEE 802.11a wireless networking standard. [1] This innovation has been described as a revolution in world communications, [3] allowing high speed wireless communications.
WaveLAN was originally designed by NCR Systems Engineering, later renamed into WCND (Wireless Communication and Networking Division) at Nieuwegein, in the province Utrecht in the Netherlands, a subsidiary of NCR Corporation, in 1986–7, and introduced to the market in 1990 as a wireless alternative to Ethernet and Token Ring. [1]
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
Professor Neil Weste the founder of Radiata Networks who had created the first 802.11a Wi-Fi chip [12] Dr. John O'Sullivan (engineer) radio astronomer who led the team who invented Wi-Fi at CSIRO in the 1980s [23] [24] Dr. David Goodall, a design engineer at Radiata, which created the first commercial WiFi chip [12]
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The name Wi-Fi is not short-form for 'Wireless Fidelity', [34] although the Wi-Fi Alliance did use the advertising slogan "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" for a short time after the brand name was created, [31] [33] [35] and the Wi-Fi Alliance was also called the "Wireless Fidelity Alliance Inc." in some publications. [36]