Wi-Fi And The Bad Boys Of Radio Dan Of A Wireless Technology [Paperback]

At 36,000 feet, Wi-Fi converts our airline seats to remote offices. It lets us read email in airports, watch video in coffee shops, and listen to music at home. Wi-Fi is everywhere. But where did it come from?

Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio takes us back to when the Internet was first gaining popularity, email took ten minutes to load up, and cell phones were big and unwieldy. But Alex Hills had a vision: people carrying small handheld devices that were always connected. His unwavering purpose was to change the way we use the Internet.

After being a teenage ham operator and bringing radio, TV and telephone service to the Eskimos of northern Alaska, Dr. Hills led a small band of innovators to overcome the bad boys of radio - the devilishly unpredictable behavior of radio waves - and build the network that would become the forerunner to today's Wi-Fi.

I know of no one so capable of telling the Wi-Fi story and explaining so clearly how the technology works. Alex Hills is certain to capture the public imagination with this new book.
~ Jim Geier, Principal Consultant, Wireless-Nets, Ltd. and Wi-Fi author

Alex Hills has contributed to the developing world and to developing advanced wireless technology at one of the world's most tech-savvy universities. Working on both frontiers, Dr. Hills pioneered wireless Internet and launched a revolution in the way the world communicates. His story of how we cut the cord begins in a place where there were no cords to begin with -- remote Alaska.
~ Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska and former Chair, United States Arctic Research Commission

Alex Hills is Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering & Public Policy and Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Hills is frequently invited to speak at conventions, conferences, university seminars, corporate training sessions, and community events. His talks, with their vivid stories andlƒ9