Keynote speaker, PIMRC2009 Tokyo Japan

Qualifications to Help You


• Pioneer of spread spectrum commercialization 1981-85

FCC Approval of Docket 81-413 Rules that Formed the Basis of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, 5/9/85

"But the FCC, prompted by a visionary engineer on its staff, Michael Marcus, took three chunks of spectrum from the ISM bands and opened them up to communications engineers" The Economist, June 12, 2004, p. 26  
 
Winner of first
IEEE-USA Electrotechnology Transfer Award, 1994 "For his pioneering work in the conception, drafting, and enactment of the Federal regulations that legalized commercial spread spectrum radio under FCC Part 15, the rules governing unlicensed devices; thus spawning a multimillion dollar, worldwide, wireless industry."
• Pioneer of millimeterwave commercialization 1992-2003
Named IEEE Fellow in 2004 "For leadership in the development of spectrum management policies"

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Education in engineering with strong experience in legal and economic issues key to practical spectrum policy
• Key roles in FCC Spectrum Policy Task Force

• Responsible for drafting FCC
proposals for cognitive radio
 
• 25 year veteran of FCC spectrum management with an exchange assignment
(Mike Mansfield Fellowship)  in Japanese spectrum regulator - MPT (Now MIC) Radio Department

Also visiting researcher at University of Tokyo, Keio University, and Communications Research Laboratory (Now NICT)


• Frequent visitor and speaker in Japan on radio technology and spectrum policy
More than 15 presentations at Japanese technical conferences

• Invited keynote speaker at wireless conferences around the world:
- International Microwave Symposium, Ft. Worth, Texas, USA 2004
- EMC Zurich, Zurich Switzerland 2005
- International Conference on Ultrawideband, Zurich, Switzerland 2005
- International Symposium on Medical Information and Communications Technology, Yokohama, Japan 2006
- Global Symposium on Millimeterwave, Sendai, Japan 2009
- NIWeek Wireless Track, Austin Texas 2009
- Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications Conference (PIMRC09) Tokyo, Japan 2009

Video archive of spectrum leadership

1981 proposals
1985 adoption of rules

Millimeterwave rulemaking that created 60 GHz unlicensed band:
1994 proposals
1995 adoption of rules


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