Donald C. Cox

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Donald Clyde Cox (born November 22, 1937 in Lincoln , Nebraska ) is an American electrical engineer . He is a professor at Stanford University .

Cox studied electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska with a bachelor's degree in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960. He then worked at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as a development engineer and communications systems officer until 1963, when he returned to the university. In 1968 he received his PhD from Stanford University and then was at Bell Laboratories , where he became department head. From 1984 to 1993 he was Executive Director and Division Manager for Radio Research at Bellcore (emerged from Bell Labs in 1984). In 1993 he became a professor at Stanford.

He is particularly concerned with cellular radio technology, theoretical communication technology and radio propagation in and around buildings, devices for signal processing at low power, radio data networks.

In 1983 he received the Italian Guglielmo-Marconi Prize, in 1985 the IEEE Morris E. Leeds Award , in 1993 the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and in 2000 the IEEE Third Millennium Medal . He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (1994) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary doctorate from the University of Nebraska (1983).

Fonts

  • Editor with WC Jakes: Microwave Mobile Communications , Wiley 1974, IEEE Press 1994
  • with Karen Q. Tian Mobility Management in Wireless Networks: Data Replication Strategies and Applications , Kluwer 2004
  • Contribution to J. Gibson (Editor) The Mobile Communications Handbook , IEEE Press, 1996, 1999

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
personal data
SURNAME Cox, Donald C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cox, Donald Clyde (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Lincoln , Nebraska