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About the Author
Michael P. Fitz has experience both as a teacher of electrical communications
and as a designer of electrical communication systems. He has been a profes-
sor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California Los
Angeles (UCLA), the Ohio State University, and Purdue University. Professor
Fitz won the D. D. Ewing Undergraduate Teaching Award at Purdue University
in 1995. Prof. Fitz was a member of the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions
on Communications. Dr. Fitz has worked as a digital communication system
engineer for a variety of companies and currently is a senior communication
systems engineer at Northrop Grumman. In these roles he has designed, built,
and tested modems for land mobile and satellite communications applications.
He received the 2001 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize
Paper Award in the field of communications systems for his contributions to
space-time modem technology.
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