{"662114":{"#nid":"662114","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ECE Student Seminar - Transitions in Data Communications ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDate:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Monday, October 24, 2022\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETime:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E12:30\u0026nbsp;p.m. -\u0026nbsp;1:20 p.m.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELocation:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003EVan Leer, WC240\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Cathleen Quigley\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0026rsquo;s Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Engineering Consultant\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker\u0026rsquo;s Affiliation\u003C\/strong\u003E: Swiftwater Consulting, LLC\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESeminar Title:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Many aspects of the data communications field have changed radically over the last 40\u0026nbsp;years. Indeed, digital electronics design has changed from designing with\u0026nbsp;standard\u0026nbsp;building block digital logic functions with a few dozen transistors to gate arrays to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nstandard cell and field programmable gate arrays with incredible densities. Analog\u0026nbsp;design\u0026nbsp;has moved from discrete and simple blocks to incredibly precise circuits along\u0026nbsp;side millions of digital logic gates. Data communications as a field has grown\u0026nbsp;spectacularly with the\u0026nbsp;emergence of the Internet and a myriad high speed\u0026nbsp;communications techniques. My career in data communications has spanned this\u0026nbsp;dramatic evolution and has transitioned in multiple ways from designer to executive and\u0026nbsp;corporate worker to entrepreneur to consultant. I worked on biphase communications\u0026nbsp;circuits, 10 and 100Mb Ethernet integrated circuits,\u0026nbsp;digital cable communications chips\u0026nbsp;for high speed data and video, Wifi and others. I\u0026rsquo;ve also witnessed changes in the\u0026nbsp;workplace, successfully transitioning from male to female. I hope to share insights about\u0026nbsp;these various transitions in data communications and encourage\u0026nbsp;students in finding their\u0026nbsp;careers after graduation.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBiographical Sketch of the Speaker:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003ECathleen Thomas Quigley is a transwoman engineer,\u0026nbsp;performer, philanthropist and\u0026nbsp;activist. She attended high school in Athens, Georgia before\u0026nbsp;graduating with a degree in\u0026nbsp;Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1984. She started\u0026nbsp;the Residential\u0026nbsp;Broadband Business Unit at Broadcom Corporation in 1996 and drove the\u0026nbsp;development\u0026nbsp;of the first DOCSIS Cable Modem, Cable Modem Termination System and\u0026nbsp;integrated\u0026nbsp;digital video integrated circuits and systems. She is a named inventor on over one\u0026nbsp;hundred fifty US and European patents covering many of the building blocks of DOCSIS\u0026nbsp;cable systems, as well as numerous digital video, mesh computing, mobile and wireless\u0026nbsp;communication concepts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter retiring from Broadcom\u0026rsquo;s Office of the CTO in 2008, she has consulted and served\u0026nbsp;as\u0026nbsp;an expert witness in broadband technology. Prior to Broadcom, she developed data\u0026nbsp;communications chips and some of the first 100mb Ethernet chips for National\u0026nbsp;Semiconductor and participated in the IEEE 802.3u and 802.14 standards activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe is a Broadcom Fellow and has been honored by her alma mater, the Georgia Institute\u0026nbsp;of Technology, as a member of the Academy of Distinguished Engineering Alumni and\u0026nbsp;Council\u0026nbsp;of Outstanding Young Engineers.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShe runs the Quigley Family Foundation and serves on various non-profit boards\u0026nbsp;including\u0026nbsp;the College of Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the\u0026nbsp;Atlanta Symphony\u0026nbsp;Orchestra. Past board involvement at Georgia Tech includes many\u0026nbsp;years on the ECE\u0026nbsp;Advisory Board, the President\u0026rsquo;s Advisory Board and the Alumni\u0026nbsp;Board.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter too many years among engineers and scientists, she became a singer\/songwriter and\u0026nbsp;has released a CD called \u0026ldquo;Aversion to Reason\u0026rdquo; which, thankfully, is out of\u0026nbsp;circulation. An avid\u0026nbsp;guitarist, she sings and performs in a variety of venues mainly in\u0026nbsp;Georgia where she lives\u0026nbsp;with her standard poodle, Ruby.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECathleen Quigley of\u0026nbsp;Swiftwater Consulting, LLC\u0026nbsp;will deliver the October 24\u0026nbsp;ECE Student Seminar,\u0026nbsp;\u0026quot;Transitions in Data \u0026nbsp;Communications.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring Cathleen Quigley of Swiftwater Consulting, LLC"}],"uid":"36172","created_gmt":"2022-10-13 18:28:11","changed_gmt":"2022-10-13 18:34:20","author":"dwatson71","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-10-24T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-10-24T14:20:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-10-24T14:20:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-10-24 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-10-24 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-10-24 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5617","name":"ECE Student Seminar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mary.ann.weitnauer@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMary Ann Weitnauer\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}