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Dr. Howard Johnson
If you are reading this
page because you care about the quality of
your information sources and want top-notch
advice, that's a good thing.
The best way to evaluate
a consultant is through personal references.
Ask around. Having taught more than 10,000
students, and sold more than 70,000 books,
there is a good chance someone you know can
tell you about Dr. Johnson and his
capabilities.
Alternately, you may find
that you already
know Dr. Johnson through his product
accomplishments.
For example, do you use voicemail?
- In 1979 Howard invented PhoneMail, the
first integrated voice messaging system.
He created the voice compression
algorithms, the product architecture and
basic feature set, all of which are still
used today in numerous products worldwide.
Do you use Ethernet?
- In 1993 and again in 1996 Howard was
elected by the IEEE as chief technical
editor of Ethernet standards. In those key
roles he helped shape the Fast and Gigabit
Ethernet standards we all enjoy today. The
standards literally came right out of his
computer.
If that's the kind of
product success you seek, why not learn from an
expert who's really done it? Here's a
synopsis of Howard's professional
experience:
Early Days
1973 T.V. repair
man
1974 Designed and built his first
full-fledged computer out of SSI logic.
1978 Earned MEE degree at Rice University
while managing the EE lab and designing
instruments for the oil drilling industry.
Corporate Work Experience
1979-1983 Manager
of Technology and Advanced development for
ROLM Corp., manufacturers of the first all-digital
phone system designed after the breakup of
AT&T. ROLM was subsequently acquired by IBM.
1984-1988 Director of
Engineering at U.S. TeleCenters.
1988-1989 Manager of
Technology and Advanced Development at Ultra
Network Technologies.
1989-today Professional
consultant to corporations, universities and
governmental organizations worldwide.
Professional Training
1982 PhD., Rice
University, Department of Electrical
Engineering, under Sidney Burrus, who since became Dean of Engineering.
Howard was awarded his PhD after only
21 months of graduate study, the quickest rate of
graduation in department history.
25 years apprenticeship to Dr. Martin
Graham, professor emeritus at U.C. Berkeley
and past chairman of the Berkeley EE department. Dr.
Graham was making computers out of tubes
before Howard was born. Martin has been
Howard's mentor since 1982.
Howard's areas of
expertise include DSP software, high-speed
data transmission, hot-plugging backplane
architectures, and multimedia communication
systems. He is an expert witness qualified
to testify on the subject of computer
architecture, and the primary inventor of
numerous patents.
Technology Success
Dr. Johnson's
greatest strength is the pioneering
development of new technologies:
- Invented Phonemail (ROLM).
- Created traveling-wave bus
architecture for digital telephone branch
exchange (IBM).
- Designed world's first gigabit
local-area-network transceivers (Ultra
Network Technologies).
- Conceived data-switching bus
architecture for first Internet
point-of-presence servers (Ascend Corp.).
- Discovered new Fast Fourier Transform
theory (Rice University).
- Specified architecture for first
10Gbps backplane transceivers
(Accelerant Networks).
- Conducted original research for high
speed power line communication (Echelon).
- Served as chief technical editor for
Fast and Gigabit Ethernet (IEEE Stds.)
Clients
Who relies on Dr.
Johnson's advice? Here is a short list:
Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, IBM, Apple,
Microsoft, Cisco, Motorola, Northern
Telecom, Tektronix, LeCroy, Agilent, Micron, Lockheed, Raytheon, General Dynamics, NASA,
and BAE Systems, .
Industry Recognition
It is important
that you select a personal mentor widely
accepted by other engineers. Dr. Johnson's
High-Speed Digital Design seminars reach
over 1,000 engineers annually. Companies all
over the world recognize his seminars as the
best available courses for signal integrity
engineers and high-speed digital designers.
His
High-Speed Digital Design Newsletter
boasts a subscription of more than 10,000
engineers. Archived copies of his newsletter
and other articles (300+) are the most
often-perused sections of this site.
An engaging and informative author, Dr.
Johnson has written three
nationally-acclaimed texts. Together, sales
exceed 70,000 books, far more than any other
works in the field of signal integrity.
EDN Magazine chose Dr. Johnson as
their featured Signal Integrity columnist.
These columns reach about 160,000 readers
monthly.
Oxford University Relationship
Dr. Johnson
regularly teaches seminars at sites
worldwide, including courses for Oxford
University in the U.K.
Since 1994, his Oxford
courses have consistently ranked as the most
popular summer engineering courses ever
delivered in the Oxford extension learning
program.
These courses are available in open
forums to engineers throughout Europe,
regardless of their prior affiliation with
the University.
In recognition of his outstanding
contribution to engineering education, in
July of 2000 Oxford awarded Dr. Johnson a
three-year Visiting Fellowship during part
of which he resided at the University,
worked with undergraduates, and laid the
groundwork for the enormously popular
High-Speed Digital Engineering Week.
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