John O'Sullivan
Electrical engineer, Inventor
Who is John O'Sullivan?
John O’Sullivan is an Australian electrical engineer whose work in the application of Fourier transforms to radio astronomy led to his invention with colleagues of a core technology that made wireless LAN fast and reliable. This technology was patented by CSIRO and forms part of the 802.11a, 802.11g and 802.11n Wi-Fi standards and thus John O'Sullvian is also credited with the invention of WIFI.
In 2009 O’Sullivan was awarded both the CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Prime Minister's Prize for Science.
He is currently working on the design of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope, a step towards the proposed Square Kilometre Array telescope.
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- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Sydney
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on July 23, 2013
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