About the Author

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Dr. Walter Y. Chen grew up in Shanghai, China, during the cultural revolution of Chairman Mao. The traditional (Soviet) style of language, math, and science curriculum was totally interrupted during the third grade of his six-year elementary school education. Students of his age began studying newspaper propaganda articles and attending confession-style group self-examinations and political gatherings and street demonstrations. With so much spare time but no formal academic work, Walter turned his curiosity to assembling electronic devices, starting with a crystal radio and advancing to black and white transistor television sets, with help from his uncles. Initially they helped him debug his electronic circuits, but then they began to introduce him to relevant books. Eventually, Walter was not only reading electronics books but also many of his uncles' high school and college math and physics textbooks. From this exposure, Walter determined that writing books was probably an interesting and worthwhile thing to do.

After graduating summa cum laude from Polytechnic Institute of New York with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, Walter joined Bell Labs' One Year On Campus (OYOC) educational program. He received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology. Walter subsequently spent 13 years working in different Bell divisions, among them AT&T Information Systems, Bell Labs, NYNEX, and Bellcore. During these years, he was involved in PBX systems engineering, DataPhone II ASIC design, as well as HDSL, ADSL, and Cable Modem systems engineering, laying the foundation for the information he presents in this book. He also earned his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University while with the Bell system.



Home Network Basis(c) Transmission Environments and Wired/Wireless Protocols
Home Networking Basis: Transmission Environments and Wired/Wireless Protocols
ISBN: 0130165115
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 97

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