How Wireless Took Me out of Computer Science and into the Real World

press release: More, different, and better code. When Anton Kapela was working at various network, security, and firewall companies as an undergraduate, that was his mantra. Unfortunate obstacles like unreliable networks, wireless or otherwise, were mere externalities that our clever code would deal with. He thought he was good at catching all the exceptions: after all, UNIX and C rockstars. At some point, that attitude changed. It became increasingly clear that outages and failures were simply part of the larger Inter-networking world, especially in the context of the externalities he so emphatically wanted to ignore. That motivated Anton to start asking fundamental questions about the nature of communications systems, especially popular ones like wireless and mobility networks. Fast-forward 20 years, and here he is -- still working on improving fundamental aspects of wireless systems.

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