Historic IEEE 802 Group Looks Back and Forward

Source: Slashdot
Posted: 2010-03-11 12:01:18

An anonymous reader writes "The IEEE MAN/LAN Standards Committee — better known as the people who brought us Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth — is celebrating its 30th anniversary next week. This article has interviews with the original committee chairman and other veteran members, and reveals some of the inside situation. It also looks at some of the upcoming 802.x standards including one that sends data by modulating visible light." Read more of this story at Slashdot.