James J. Spilker, Jr.

Professor, Consulting
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Address
Packard Bldg., Room 230
Stanford
University,
Stanford,
CA 94305-9510
Phone
650-736-1084
Research Interests
- Broadband access to the Internet, cable, fixed
wireless, DSL, satellite communications,.
- CDMA, Orthogonal CDMA, multi-carrier CDMA, CDMA
tracking-Delay Lock Loop.
- Communications theory, signal processing,
multiple access, modulation, synchronization, and coding
- Networking management, protocols, caching.
- Global Positioning System, signal tracking,
navigation, time transfer
- Satellite communications, GEO, LEO, MEO orbits.
- Internet Security
Education
- B.S., in Electrical Engineering, Stanford
University, 1955
- M.S., in Electrical Engineering, Stanford
University, 1956
- Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering, Stanford
University, 1958
- Senior Management Program, UCLA, 1986
Books
- Digital Communications by Satellite,
Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977. Reprinted as softcover, 1995.
- Global Positioning System-Theory and Applications,
Volumes I, II. AIAA,
Washington, DC. Co-Editor and
Principal co-author, 1996.
- Contributing author, Self Organizing Systems,
Office of Naval Research, 1975
- The Evolution of Modern Digital Communications
Technologies, in Science, Technology, and National Security, Pennsylvania
Academy of Science, Easton,
PA, 2002. Co-author.
Honors
- National Academy of Engineering of the USA,
Member, Electronics, Aeronautics & Astronautics
- IEEE, Life Fellow
- Institute of Navigation, Fellow
- Premio Prize, International City of Columbus
Award, Italian Institute of Communications, 1983
- Johannes Kepler Award, Institute of Navigation
- Hall of Fame Award, GPS Joint Program Office, US Air Force
Previous Employment/Committees
- Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Stanford Telecommunications,
Inc., 1973-1999 a digital telecommunications company of more than 1000
employees sold to Intel, Alcatel, Flextronics, ITT Industries in 1999.
- Co-Founder and Chairman, Rosum Corporation.
- Science advisory boards of several Internet
access and ASIC chip related companies.
- Board of Advisors, Stanford University, School
of Engineering
- Board of Advisors, USC, Communications Sciences
Institute
- IEEE Technical Activities Board, Chairman
- Lecturer, Stanford University, George Washington
University.
- US Congressional Advisory Board International
Space Station
- Air Force GPS Independent Review Team
- Defense Science Board GPS Task Force
Expertise
Spread spectrum, CDMA,
Orthogonal CDMA, Multicarrier CDMA. Originated various forms of the Delay Lock
Loop used in almost all cellular CDMA and GPS receivers. Vector Delay lock
tracking-integrated delay lock loop/Kalman filter. Cable modems, QAM with
concatenated coding. Broadband Internet access. Network management. Fixed
wireless communications in multipath channels, adaptive equalization. Global
Positioning System, co-architect of GPS responsible for signal design, new L5
CDMA codes. Relativistic and propagation effects on signal timing. Satellite
communications multiple access, orbits, modulation and coding. Communications
theory. Digital signal processing in ASIC chips. Mathematica .