Biography of Graham Campbell

Graham Campbell received the BScEE and MScEE degrees from the University of Manitoba in Canada. After working in industry in Canada he emigrated to the USA and established with a classmate a company providing consulting services related to control systems to NASA, the US Air Force, and the U.S. Army. Subsequent to this he joined Penn State University where he taught and also directed Computer Science activities at the 20 Commonwealth Campuses of the Penn State system while completing his PhD in Computer Science. He returned to Canada in the mid 70s for a four year stint as Science Advisor to the Premier of Manitoba. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology since 1981 where he is responsible for the courses related to data communications. Fourteen PhDs have completed their studies under his direction and he his currently directing three Ph.D. students.

The Science Advisor position brought him into contact with cable TV systems which led him to conclude that image compression and MAC (medium access control) protocols would be important components in the delivery of data services via cable TV. His research in these areas resulted in a patent (with T. Defanti) on the compression of digitized color images, assigned to the Bally Corporation, and to the development of DQRAP (Distributed Queueing Random Access Protocol), a MAC that has been proposed to IEEE 802.14 as the cable TV protocol standard by several organizations. DQRAP is a candidate MAC for many other applications as described in material presented elsewhere in this homepage.

He is married, lives in Batavia, IL and commutes to IIT via Metra and its now often unreliable Union Pacific service. He has two children who have graduated from Cal Tech and IIT respectively. When not preoccupied with teaching, research, and with assembling material for this homepage he reads Trollope, murder mysteries, histories, biographies and contemplates a warmer clime. He served for 11 years in the Royal Canadian Air Force Regular and Reserve.

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