Joseph C. Decuir is an American

fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and ot ...

(IEEE) who was nominated in 2015 for contributions to

computer graphics Computer graphics deals with generating images and art with the aid of computers. Computer graphics is a core technology in digital photography, film, video games, digital art, cell phone and computer displays, and many specialized applications. ...

and early

video game A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, game controller, controller, computer keyboard, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual fe ...

systems. One of his fellow nomination sponsors was Ralph H. Baer. He is a fellow of the

IEEE Consumer Electronics Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office i ...

IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society (commonly known as the Computer Society or CS) is a technical society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) dedicated to computing, namely the major areas of hardware, software, standards and people ...

and the

IEEE Communications Society The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines. The IEEE has a corporate office i ...

Early video game systems

* Atari Video Computer System, aka 2600:

Atari 2600 The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Released in September 1977 as the Atari Video Computer System (Atari VCS), it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridg ...

Atari 8-bit computers The Atari 8-bit computers, formally launched as the Atari Home Computer System, are a series of home computers introduced by Atari, Inc., in 1979 with the Atari 400 and Atari 800. The architecture is designed around the 8-bit MOS Technology 650 ...

- including work on the Atari SIO universal serial interface. *

Amiga Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore International, Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-b ...

In patents assigned to Commodore Amiga
/ref> - Design of the MOS Technology Agnus DMA chip, awarded four US patents.

Engineering standards

Decuir made substantial technical and editorial contributions to wired and wireless communications engineering standards, including: *

ITU-T The International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) is one of the three Sectors (branches) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It is responsible for coordinating Standardization, standards fo ...

V-series modem standards: V.8, V.8bis, V.32bis V.34, V.80, V.90, V.250, V.251 and V.253 *

T-series facsimile standards: T.30, T.31 and T.32 * European Telecommunications Standard Institute (

ETSI The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization operating in the field of Information and communications technology, information and communications. ETSI supports the de ...

): ETS 300 642: AT Command Set for GSM Mobile Equipment (ME) *

USB Universal Serial Bus (USB) is an industry standard, developed by USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), for digital data transmission and power delivery between many types of electronics. It specifies the architecture, in particular the physical ...

Communications Device Class, Wireless Mobile Communications and Network Control Model; awarded a US patent for the bus termination. * European Computer Manufacturers Association (

ECMA International Ecma International () is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its current name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to ...

): ECMA-368, High Rate Ultra Wideband MAC and PHY Standard * Wireless USB v1.1 *

Bluetooth Bluetooth is a short-range wireless technology standard that is used for exchanging data between fixed and mobile devices over short distances and building personal area networks (PANs). In the most widely used mode, transmission power is li ...

Core Specifications: v3.0, v4.0, v4.1 and v4.2 * Bluetooth Profiles and Services: RESTful API, Internet Protocol Support v1.0, HTTP Proxy Services v1.0

Current engineering related activities

* Lecturer at University of Washington Bothell in Electronics Engineering: https://www.uwb.edu/ * Secretary of IEEE Region 6 - Western United States: http://ieee-region6.org/ * Editor of draft IEEE Standard 2030.10, DC Microgrids

* IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Board of Governors, 2015-2017: https://ctsoc.ieee.org/

Personal life

Decuir is a resident of

Issaquah, Washington Issaquah ( ) is a city in King County, Washington, United States. The population was 40,051 at the 2020 census. Located in a valley and bisected by Interstate 90, the city is bordered by the Sammamish Plateau to the north and the " Issaquah ...

. He has four children and three grandchildren.
Decuir volunteers his time to IEEE Global Humanitarian Conferences.

References

External links

Patents, where Joseph C. Decuir was signed as inventor
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