John Cioffi
John M. Cioffi (born November 7, 1956 in Illinois ) is an American electrical engineer , known for his significant contributions to the development of DSL in digital communication technology.
Cioffi studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's degree in 1978. He continued his studies at Stanford University , where he received his master's degree in 1979 and received his doctorate in 1984, while at the same time from 1978 onwards Bell Laboratories worked. In 1984 he went to IBM , where he worked on hard drive read channels. In 1986 he became an assistant professor and later professor at Stanford University. His research on Discrete Multitone Transmission (DMT) with his students at Stanford led to DSL technology. In 2009 he retired from Stanford as Hitachi Professor of Engineering.
In 1991 he founded Amati Communications Corporation to build and market DSL modems. The result was the Prelude modem, which demonstrated the advantages of DSL technology over competing modulation technologies. In 1993 he returned to Stanford, but remained director of Amati until it was taken over by Texas Instruments in 1998.
He then developed Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) as a further development of DSL technology and founded Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment Inc. (ASSIA) in 2003, of which he is CEO and Chairman of the Board.
Cioffi received the Marconi Prize in 2006, the IEEE Kobayashi Medal in 2001, the IEEE Third Millennium Award in 2000 and the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Award in 2010. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2001) and the Royal Society of Engineering (2009) and a Fellow of the IEEE (1996). In 2010 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh .
Fonts
- Article DSL in Scholarpedia by Cioffi
- with T. Starr, M. Sorbora, PJ Silverman: DSL Advances, Prentice Hall, 2003.
- with T. Starr, PJ Silverman: Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology, Prentice Hall, 1999.
- Generalized Decision-Feedback Equalization for Packet Transmission with ISI and Gaussian Noise , in A. Paulraj, V. Roychowdhury, and CD Schaper (Editor) Communications, Computation, Control and Signal Processing, a Tribute to Thomas Kailath , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997, Chapter 4.
- Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Lines , in JD Gibson (Editor) Communications Handbook , CRC Press / IEEE Press, 1997, Chapter 34.
- Adaptive Filtering , in SK Mitra, JF Kaiser (Editor) Digital Signal Processing Handbook , Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1988, chapter 15.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Cioffi, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cioffi, John M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American electrical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 7, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Illinois |