Donald Cox

Donald Clyde Cox ( born November 22, 1937 in Lincoln, Nebraska) is an American electrical engineer. He is a professor at Stanford University.

Cox studied electrical engineering at the University of Nebraska with a bachelor 's degree in 1959 and a master's degree in 1960. Afterwards it was until 1963 at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base as a development engineer and officer of communications systems and then returned to the University. He received his doctorate at Stanford University in 1968 and was then at Bell Laboratories, where he was head of department. 1984 to 1993 he was Executive Director and Division Manager of Radio Research at Bellcore (1984 emerged from Bell Labs). He became a professor at Stanford University in 1993.

He is particularly concerned with mobile technology, communications engineering and theoretical radio propagation in and around buildings, equipment for signal processing in low-power wireless data networks.

In 1983 he was awarded the Italian Guglielmo Marconi price, 1985 IEEE Morris E. Leeds Award, 1993, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and 2000, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering ( 1994) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an honorary doctorate from the University of Nebraska (1983).

Writings

• Publisher with WC Jakes: Microwave Mobile Communications, Wiley 1974, IEEE Press 1994
• With Karen Q. Tian Mobility Management in Wireless Networks: Data Replication Strategies and Applications, Kluwer 2004
• Contribution to J. Gibson (Editor) The Mobile Communications Handbook, IEEE Press, 1996, 1999