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Vic Hayes 

Personal data:

Date and place of birth: 31-07-1941, Surabaya (Netherland's Indies, now Indonesia)

Education:

College:
HTS "Amsterdam", Amsterdam (the Netherlands) 1957-1961. Received his BE degree in 1961 in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Radio and Radar Officer at the Dutch Royal Air Force, 1962.

Professional career:

Customer Engineer:
Friden Holland, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, later acquired by Singer Business Machines.
Employed 1-9-1963 to 30-6-1974

Systems Engineer:
NCR, Systems Laboratory, Utrecht, the Netherlands later AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Agere Systems.
Employed 1-7-1974 to 30-10-2003

Computer architect from 1-1-1980 to 1-1-1988

Senior Consultant, Standards and Regulations from 1-1-1988 to 30-10-2003

Senior Research Fellow:
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Economics of Infrastructures from 1-1-2005 to present.

Publications

Articles
(with Cees Links, Wim Diepstraten) , A new IEEE standard promises to bring interoperability to the wireless LAN marketplace, in: BYTE May 1994

Other Professional Activities:

Chair of professional bodies

• Chair the IEEE 802.4l, Task Group for Wireless Extension to the Token Bus LAN
• of years 9.75 LANs, Wireless for Group Working 802.11, IEEE Chair time first and (1990)>
• Ombudsman Radio Regulations at the IEEE 802 Executive Committee (2000-2002)
• Founder and first time Chair of the Regulatory Committee at the Wi-Fi Alliance, the Industry Association related to IEEE 802.11 (2001-2003)

Contributions to conferences

• Wireless IEEE P802.11 Standard, WINFORUM and Federal Wireless Users' Forum, Rockville. Maryland, May 15-18, 1995
• Wireless LAN standard , Portable by Design conference and exhibition, 1997
• The IEEE 802.11 Wireless Standard, LCN 97, The 22nd LCN Technical Program, Minneapolis/St. Paul, November 2-5, 1997
• IEEE-Standard 802.11, ISO/IEC DIS 8802-11 and new extensions, 3rd ACTS Mobile Communications Summit '98, Panel on Wireless Applications Protocols, Rhodes, Greece, June 8-11, 1998
• IEEE-Standard 802.11, ISO/IEC DIS 8802-11, IBC, London, UK, June, 1999
• DECT and IEEE Std 802.11, DECT 2000, Rome, Italy Cavaliery Hotel, 18-20 January, 2000
• History and Perspectives of IEEE® 802.11 WLAN, Smart Homes, Symposium, Seoul, Korea, 4-5 November, 2002
• "Workshop 5 GHz allocation and propagation” given on October 28, 2006 at the World Summit for Free Information Infrastructures (WSFII) in Upper Dharamsala, India
• “The Roots of Wi-Fi” given on October 25, 2006 at the World Summit for Free Information Infrastructures (WSFII) in Upper Dharamsala, India“
• The social advent of IEEE 802.11” given on November 25, 2006 at the 100th IEEE 802.11 conference in Dallas, Texas
• "Reflections by the award winner" presented at the seminar on the occasion of the IEEE Steinmetz Award for the Father of Wi-Fi on February 2, 2007
• "Propoor wireless solutions" presentation at the LIRNE experts meeting in Montevideo, Uruguay, on March 7, 2007.
• "Dutch roots of Wi-Fi" key note address given at the official kick-off event of the Netherlands Institute for Research on ICT (NIRICT) at the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, the Netherlands on March 22, 2007
• The "Use Wi-Fi to extend universal access" at the IEEE GIIS 2007, (Global Information Infrastructure Symposium), Marrakech, Morocco, on July 4, 2007
• "The Dutch Roots of Wi-Fi" Keynote 2 at the 13th EUNICE Open European Summer School and IFIP TC6.6 Workshop, Enschede, the Netherlands, on July 18, 2007
•  "Pro poor Wireless connectivity" at a workshop on Scenarios for the Future of IICD, Technology: What is out there? At the The International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD), the Hague, the Netherlands, on October 6, 2007
• "Wi-Fi, its development, implications and IP" at a seminar of the European Patent Office, the Hague, the Netherlands, on November 6, 2007
•  “Summary of some standards bodies and operation within one: IEEE 802.11” at a European Commission conference EU_NAVS, Bruxelles, Belgium, on November 13, 2007
•  "Wireless networks for communities in developing countries" at the First Annual Leiden Workshop on Open Innovation in Leiden, the Netherlands, on November 29, 2007
• "Wi-Fi, its applications in community networks and other documents" keynote address at the at the 1st Home Networking Conference 2007,  IFIP TC6 Conference, IEEE, Paris, France, on December 10, 2007
• "Wi-Fi, its applications in community networks and other documents" at the OpenHardware Workshop, Maissons Laffitte, France, on December13, 2007

Interviews

• Delta - Draadloos diplomaat - Jaargang 39 Nummer 03
• Technisch Weekblad - Mensen & Meningen - Geestelijk vader draadloos internet - 10 februari 2007
• De Ingenieur - Ik ben meer diplomaat dan ingenieur - 9 maart 2007
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