Franklin F. Kuo

Franklin Kuo was a professor at the University of Hawaii and is the author of several books in computer communications. He was also the VP at China Mtone Wireless Corporation in Beijing China. He is also a major contributor^{[1] [2]} to ALOHANET, along with Norman Abramson. He is now retired in California.

Education

Franklin completed his BS, MS, PhD in Electrical Engineering from UIUC, USA.^[3] His Ph.D. advisor was Mac Van Valkenburg.

Career

Frnklin spent most of his career in universities. Below is a list of his affiliations from 1958 to 2008. From 1988-90, he was a consultant to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and from 1980-85, a member of the CNO (Chief of Naval Operations) Executive Panel. From 1978-82, he was a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and from 1966-71, he was a consultant to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is now retired.

• 1995 – 1996 Visiting Professor Informatik, Univ. of Mannheim Germany

• 1994 - 1998 Founder and Vice-President of Gwcom, a Silicon Startup

• 1998 – 2008 Mentor in Entreneurship, Stanford Business School

• 1982 – 1994 Consulting Professor, Electrical Engineering, Stanford Univ.

• 1982 – 1994 Senior Scientific Advisor SRI, Menlo Park, CA

• 1966 – 1982 Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii

• 1976 - 1977 Dir. Information Systems, Office of Sec. Of Defense, Wash.

• 1960 – 1966 Research Division, Bell Laboratories, Muray Hill NJ

• 1958 – 1960 Assistant Prof. Of EE at Brooklyn Poly. Inst. , NYC

Books

Franklin has written several early books^[4] related to networks, protocols, computer communications and multimedia. Some of his texts were used as graduate textbooks at universities for teaching subjects related to computer communications and networks.

• 1962 Network Analysis & Synthesis, Wiley^[5]

• 1966 Network Analysis & Synthesis, 2nd Ed., Wiley

• 1973 Computer Communication Networks (with N Abramson), Prentice-Hall

• 1980 Protocols and Techniques of Data Communication networks, Prentice-Hall^[6]

• 1998 Multimedia Communications, (with W. Effelsberg and JJ Garcia-Luna), Prentice-Hall^[7]

Awards

Franklin has received several awards, including the below:

• 1972 IEEE Fellow

• 1987 Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Illinois Alumni Association

• 1995 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award, Germany

• 1984 Honorary Professorship, Shanghai Jiaotong University

• 1994 Honorary Professorship, Electrotechnical University, Chengdu, China

• 1984 World Bank Lecturer, Shanghai, China

• 1994 UNESCO Lecturer, Beijing and Chengdu, China

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