Contributors
David Kammer has been involved with the handheld industry since 1997. David is currently the Technical Lead for Bluetooth technologies at Palm Inc., and is one of the authors of the original Bluetooth specification. Before working on Bluetooth, David worked on IR technology, and on the Palm VII. In addition to his work at Palm, he also consults for several companies, including In2M and Microsoft, in the field of wireless communications and PalmOS programming. David has spoken at a number of events, including The Bluetooth Developers Conference,The Bluetooth World Congress, and PalmSource, and has been interviewed about Bluetooth for the New York Times. David holds a B.A. from Oberlin College in Computer Science, and currently lives in Seattle. David would like to thank his folks for the education, Meredith Krieble and Sebastian for a nice space to work in, the excellent folks of the Palm Bluetooth Team, and Vanessa Pepoy for her understanding and patience.
Tracy Hopkins is an Applications Engineering Manager at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR). She and her group offer consultancy application services on all aspects of integrating Bluetooth into customer's products from initial conception through to production. She has a 2:1 BSc degree with honors in Electronic Engineering and after completing a 6-year apprenticeship with Phillips Telecommunications has worked in numerous engineering disciplines designing hardware for Satellite communications, production engineering at Studio Audio and Video (SADiE) and managed the international post-production technical support for broadcast giant Snell and Wilcox. She has written and presented many technical papers for both the communications and broadcast TV industries including the SMPTE technical conference and designs all of CSR's technical training seminars.
Brian P. Senese has directly participated in the development of state of the art wireless communications networks and associated components for
15 years. He has worked for Nortel, Uniden, ADC Telecommunications, and other aggressive technology companies and has held positions from designer to senior engineering manager. Currently, as an Applications Engineer for Extended Systems Inc., he gives seminars, is a regular speaker at conferences, and has published several articles on Bluetooth technology and its practical application in realizing products. He has spoken extensively on a wide variety of technical topics, is internationally published, and has another book entitled Successful High Tech Product Introduction. He holds an M.E.Sc. and B.E.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
Radina (Jiny) Bradshaw graduated with a first in Computer Science from Kings College, Cambridge University. She received her Ph.D. in the Laboratory for Communications Engineering, also in Cambridge, with Professor Andy Hopper, investigating power efficient routing in radio peer networks. She is currently a Software Engineer at Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR).
David McCall graduated from Edinburgh University with an MEng in Electronics. He worked for Visteon, designing circuitry for car stereos, before joining Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) in July of 2000. As a Senior Applications Engineer he is responsible for helping CSR's customers with all aspects of their Bluetooth product design RF, hardware and software, from concept through production.
Wajih A. Elsallal received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 1998 and continued his education at Georgia Institute of Technology where he received the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in early 2000. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute ofTechnology with a minor in Public Policy. His fields of expertise include development of antenna and phased array antenna design, electromagnetic computational methods, Bluetooth wireless LAN for handheld devices, Inter-Satellite-Link networking, microstrip and packaging technologies and sidelobe cancellor algorithms for radar applications. He has held internships at Lucent Technology and 3Com Palm Computings, Inc. and is currently a co-op staff member at the Antennas and Passives Section within the Advanced Technology Center of Rockwell Collins, Inc., a graduate teaching assistant at Georgia Tech, and a research assistant for Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI/SEAL).
Patrick Connolly was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received a Bachelors and Masters degree in Computer Science. He has been involved with the design and development of leading edge systems for over fifteen years, using such technologies as DCE, CORBA, and J2EE. Patrick is the Chief Architect at Rococo Software, where he plays a leading technical role in setting and driving product direction. His chapter in this book was co-authored by Patrick and two of his Rococo colleagues: Karl McCabe, Rococo's CTO, and Sean O'Sullivan, Rococo's CEO.
Gordon McNutt is a Kernel Developer for RidgeRun, Inc, responsible for porting Linux to embedded devices containing multiple processors. After receiving his B.S. in Computer Science from Boise State University in 1999, he spent one year at Hewlett Packard developing I/O firmware to support USB, IR, and 1284.4 for LaserJet printers.
Bill Munday is one of the founders of blueAid, which started as an organization to help those companies who could not afford the high consultancy rates for Bluetooth technology. He graduated from UMIST (Manchester, UK) in 1991 with a double degree of BSc(Hons) and MEng in Microelectronics Systems Engineering. He was sponsored by NORTEL and joined them upon graduation as a Systems Designer. He worked on first and second generation SDH and SONET transmission systems, then pioneered new time-to-market concepts while working on an innovative next-generation Voice over ATM distributed switching product. In 1997 he moved to Tality (nee Cadence, Symbionics) to start a career in wireless communications. His first project was implementing the HiperLAN 2 standard before moving on to Bluetooth. He was the first person in the
United Kingdom to have access to Bluetooth technology as he managed and created the Ericsson Bluetooth Development Kit. He quickly became an expert and continued to work on dozens of prototype Bluetooth products including Tality's own Bluetooth IP. He presented and attended all the Bluetooth seminars and Unplugfest sessions around the world. In 2001 he moved on to start blueAid and working on 3G mobile phones for a start-up company 3GLabs.
Robin Heydon is a Section Owner of HCI as a member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). He obtained his degree in Computer Science and worked for nine years in the computer gaming industry on multiplayer flight simulator games. Robert began working with Bluetooth technology in February 2000, specifically working on the baseband, inquiry, sniff, and hold development, and writing the USB device driver. Robin lives in Cambridge, UK.
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