Advisor Dr. Alex Hills
Dr. Alex Hills is Distinguished Service Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is frequently invited to speak at conventions, conferences, university seminars, corporate training sessions, and community events. His talks, with their vivid stories and clear explanations of technology, have been well-received by audiences throughout the United States and in more than thirty foreign countries. An inventor with 17 patents, Dr. Hills can write and speak in technical jargon. But in his writing, as in his talks, he speaks to everyone -- technical specialists and the public alike.
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Wi-Fi and the Bad Boys of Radio: Dawn of a Wireless Technology
Dr. Alex, the engineering professor who created the world’s first big Wi-Fi network, describes his personal odyssey in the world of radio. The story begins in his teenage years with a quest to understand radio’s mysteries. It continues with his use of radio to provide modern communication services to the Native people of remote Alaska and then to his work in helping to develop Wi-Fi technology.
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Finding Alaska’s Villages: And Connecting Them
Dr. Alex traveled Alaska by bush plane and snow machine, braving extreme weather and rough terrain to bring telephone and broadcast service to small villages across the big state. And in Finding Alaska’s Villages he tells the story of how he helped the state’s telecom pioneers bring about an innovation that would forever change rural Alaska.