"For
seminal contributions to spread-spectrum communications and
adaptive protocols for mobile wireless communication networks."
Michael B. Pursley
 Michael
B. Pursley received the B.S. degree with highest distinction
in 1967 and the M.S. degree in 1968, both in electrical engineering
from Purdue University. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Southern California in
1974. Dr. Pursley has several years industrial experience,
primarily with the Space and Communications Group of the Hughes
Aircraft Company. He was a Hughes Doctoral Fellow and a Research
Assistant in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Southern California. From January through June
of 1974 he was an Acting Assistant Professor in the System
Science Department of the University of California, Los Angeles.
From
June 1974 through July 1993, he was with the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science
Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana, where he
was promoted to the rank of Professor in 1980. Dr. Pursley
is currently the Holcombe Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
His research is in the general area of communications and
information theory with emphasis on spread-spectrum communications,
communication over fading channels, applications of error-
control coding, protocols for packet radio networks, and mobile
communications systems and networks.
Dr. Pursley
is a member of Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, and the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics, and he is a Fellow of the Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He was elected
to three-year terms on the Board of Governors of the IEEE
Information Theory Society in 1977 and again in 1989. In 1982
he was elected Fellow of the IEEE "for contributions
to information theory and spread-spectrum communications."
In 1983 he was elected president of the Information Theory
Society. Dr. Pursley was a member of the Editorial Board of
the Proceedings of the IEEE for the period 1984-1991. He is
currently a member of Editorial Advisory Board for the International
Journal of Wireless Information Networks, and he is a Senior
Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications.
He served as Technical Program Chairman for the 1979 IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory which was held
in Grignano, Italy, and as Co-Chairman for the 1995 IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory in Whistler, Canada.
Dr. Pursley
received Clemson University's McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty
Achievement Award in 1995 and Clemson's Board of Trustees
Award for Faculty Excellence in 1997 and 2000. He was awarded
an IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984, and he is co-recipient (with
John M. Shea) of the 1996 Ellersick Award of the IEEE Communications
Society for the best paper in the unclassified technical program
of the IEEE Military Communications Conference. In 1999 he
received the IEEE Military Communications Conference Award
for Technical Achievement "for sustained technical contributions
to military communications," and he was awarded the IEEE
Millennium Medal in 2000. In 2000 he was installed as an honorary
member of the Golden Key National Honor Society.
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