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Dr. Matthew Shoemake is director of advanced technology for Texas Instruments Wireless Networking Business Unit, responsible for 802.11 product definition and R&D and participation in standards body activities. Shoemake also is the chairperson for IEEE 802.11 Task Group G, the committee tasked with extending the IEEE 802.11b standard to higher data rates. Prior to TI, Shoemake was member of the technical staff for Alantro Communications, a company specializing in WLAN semiconductor technology, which was acquired by TI in late 2000. Shoemake co-invented Packet Binary Convolutional Coding (PBCC), the high performance modulation mode of the IEEE 802.11b standard, and is a key designer of TI's 802.11b compliant chips. Shoemake received doctorate
and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Texas A&M University.
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