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."
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
• Education in engineering with strong experience in legal and economic issues key to practical spectrum policy
Special Advisor to
Mrs. Viviane Reding
European Commissioner for Information Society & Media
2006
Consultant to Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA)
2010
Engineering:
• Doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT
• FCC Engineer of the Year award 1990
Legal:
• Author of many key breakthrough FCC legal decisions in spectrum policy, for example
• Founding co-chair of Engineering and Technology Practice Committee of Federal Communications Bar Association
• 6 month experience at State Department Office of Japanese Affairs implementing US-Japan cooperation agreements
• Have drafted comments to FCC on key technical policy issues 1 2 3
• Consulted by Japanese MIC on English translation of Japanese public comment procedure
•Author of published article on Japanese public comment procedures
Economic:
• Frequent presenter and session chair at Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, the key US conference on economic aspects of telecommunications policy, for example
• Doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT
• FCC Engineer of the Year award 1990
Legal:
• Author of many key breakthrough FCC legal decisions in spectrum policy, for example
• Founding co-chair of Engineering and Technology Practice Committee of Federal Communications Bar Association
• 6 month experience at State Department Office of Japanese Affairs implementing US-Japan cooperation agreements
• Have drafted comments to FCC on key technical policy issues 1 2 3
• Consulted by Japanese MIC on English translation of Japanese public comment procedure
•Author of published article on Japanese public comment procedures
Economic:
• Frequent presenter and session chair at Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, the key US conference on economic aspects of telecommunications policy, for example
• 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:
• 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:
- 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
Top row: Spread spectrum rulemaking that created the foundation for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Zigbee. 1981 proposals (left) and 1985 adoption of rules (right)
Bottom row: Millimeterwave rulemaking that created 60 GHz unlicensed band. 1994 proposals (left) and 1995 adoption of rules (right)
