Thomas E. SternThomas Stern is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, New York, and has served as department chair and technical director of Columbia's Center for Telecommunications Research. A Life Fellow of the IEEE, he holds severalpatents in networking and has published widely in the field. He has also been a consultant to a number of large companies such as IBM, Lucent, GTE, and Telcordia Technologies. Read More Read Less