The Ohanian Lecture of College of Engineering, University of Florida Co-sponsored by Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and IEEE Gainesville Section Ubiquitous Broadband Access: The Wireless Future Theodore S. Rappaport The William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering University of Texas at Austin 11:40-12:40pm, Monday, March 15, 2004 201 New Engineering Building Despite the fact that wireless communications has grown from a concept to 1 billion users in the past two decades, we are still in the very early days of a revolution that will transform computing and communications through the ubiquitous wireless medium. This talk describes the key catalysts for the new world of broadband wireless access; and describes several recent research and business activities in Austin that will bring about unprecedented access to information over wireless. Biography %%%%%%%%% Theodore S. Rappaport is an active teacher, researcher, and entrepreneur. He received BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Purdue University in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively. From 1988 to 2002, he was on the faculty of Virginia Tech. He joined the University of Texas in 2002 as the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering, and is the founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) at UT's Austin campus. He has 30 patents issued or pending and has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous books in the wireless field, including the popular textbooks Wireless Communications: Principles & Practice (Prentice-Hall, 1996, 2002), and Smart Antennas for Wireless Communications: IS-95 and Third Generation CDMA Applications (Prentice Hall, 1999). He was recipient of the 1999 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Rappaport currently serves on the Technological Advisory Council for the Federal Communications Commission, and has been appointed to a National Academy of Science panel to study the future of telecommunications research in the US. He is also serving as Technical Program Chairman for the IEEE Global Communications Conference, to be held in Dallas, TX in Nov/Dec 2004. He is series editor for the Prentice Hall Communications Engineering and Emerging Technologies book series, and serves on the editorial board of International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (Plenum Press, NY) and the advisory board of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing for Wiley InterScience. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and is active in the IEEE Communications and Vehicular Technology societies. In 1989, Rappaport founded TSR Technologies, Inc., a cellular radio/PCS software radio equipment firm that he sold in 1993, and in 1995, he founded Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., a pioneering creator of software products for the design, measurement, and management of in-building/campus networks. He is a registered professional engineer in the states of Virginia and Texas, and is a Fellow and past member of the board of directors of the Radio Club of America. He has consulted for over 25 multinational corporations and has served the International Telecommunications Union as a consultant for emerging nations. Rappaport received the Marconi Young Scientist Award in 1990, an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1992, the Sarnoff Citation from the Radio Club of America in 2000, and the James R. Evans Avant Garde award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2002. He received the Frederick Emmons Terman Outstanding Electrical Engineering Educator Award from the ASEE in November 2002.