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Bruce Raymond Davis (born 17 July 1939,
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) is an Australian
electronic engineer Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flow ...
, notable for his research in
mobile communication Mobile telephony is the provision of wireless telephone services to mobile phones, distinguishing it from fixed-location telephony provided via landline phones. Traditionally, telephony specifically refers to voice communication, though th ...
systems,
satellite communication A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunication signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth. ...
s, and high frequency
data communication Data communication, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer of data, transmitted and received over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optic ...
systems.


Education

He attended
Adelaide Technical High School Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...
,
Adelaide Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...
,
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. He received a B.E. (Hons.) degree in
electronic engineering Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flo ...
, 1960, a B.Sc. in
mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...
, 1963, and the PhD degree in
electronic engineering Electronic engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering that emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current flo ...
, 1969, all from the
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,
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.


Career

He was first employed by
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in 1964. During 1970, he was with
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,
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,
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, studying various aspects of mobile radio communications and again in 1977, when he was involved in satellite systems research. In 1988, he developed SUGAR—a circuit analysis simulation tool named in allusion to
University of California Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...
's software called
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. In 1992, he was a visiting scholar with the Communications Division of the
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(DSTO),
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, and was involved with high-frequency data communication systems.


Honours

He was a co-recipient of the 1986 IEE Overseas Premium Best Paper Award and winner of the 1989
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Norman W. V. Hayes Medal.


Selected publications

* B. R. Davis, "An improved importance sampling method for digital-communication system simulations," ''IEEE Transactions on Communications'', Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 715–719, 1986. * K. T. Ko and B. R. Davis, "Delay analysis for a TDMA channel with contiguous output and Poisson message arrival," ''IEEE Transactions on Communications,'' Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 707–709, 1984. * B. R. Davis and R. E. Bogner, "Propagation at 500 MHz for mobile radio," ''IEE Proceedings-F Radar and Signal Processing,'' Vol. 132, No. 5, pp. 307–320, 1985. * J. B. Scholz and B. R. Davis, "Error-probability estimator structures based on analysis of the receiver decision variable," ''IEEE Transactions on Communications,'' Vol. 43, No. 8, pp. 2311–2315, 1995. * B. R. Davis and W. G. Cowley, "Bias and variance of spectral estimates from an all-pole digital-filter," ''IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing,'' Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 322–329, 1982. * A. G. Bolton and B. R. Davis, "Evaluation of coefficient sensitivities for 2nd-order digital resonators," ''IEE Proceedings-G Circuits Devices and Systems,'' Vol. 128, No. 3, pp. 127–130, 1981. * B. R. Davis, D. Abbott, and J. M. R. Parrondo, "Thermodynamic energy exchange in a moving plate capacitor," ''Chaos,'' Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 747–754, 2001.


External links


Davis biography



Davis' homepage
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Davis at the ACM portal


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Bruce R. 1939 births Living people Scientists from Adelaide University of Adelaide alumni Australian electrical engineers Academic staff of the University of Adelaide