Anthony Acampora is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD, and was director of UCSD's Center for Wireless Communications, where he was involved in wireless access research and education programs focused on antennas and progagation, circuits, communication theory, telecommunication networks, and multimedia applications. Dr. Acampora has published over 150 papers, holds 30 patents, and has authored a recently completed textbook entitled An Introduction to Broadband Networks: MANs, ATM, B-ISDN, Self-Routing Switches, Optical Networks, and Network Control for Voice, Data, Image, and HDTV Telecommunications. Dr. Acampora received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering in 1973 from Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.