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Who is this "Brett Glass" Person?

  • Hacker since infancy (inserted a hairpin into an electric socket at age 2 and thereby learned about electricity)

  • BSEE Case Institute of Technology (Case Western Reserve University), 1981

  • MSEE Stanford University, 1985 (Masters' project: Digital Radio)

  • Chip designer, systems consultant, programmer, author, magazine columnist, consultant, inventor

  • More than 2,000 published articles, mostly technology-related

  • Founded LARIAT -- first wireless broadband provider

  • LARIAT was originally a nonprofit  - a 501(c)(12)) rural telecommunications co-op ("wireless grassroots"). Taken private in 2003 at members' request

  • LARIAT is now a rapidly growing wireless ISP (one of 4,000 to 8,000 in US) serving many areas unreached by DSL or cable modem