ANTHONY C. DAVIES was born in Rainham, Kent, 1936, Military service: British Army, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (1955-7), trained as Telecommunications Mechanic, and the last year as a Leading Artisan Sergeant.

B.Sc(Eng) Electrical Engineering, 1st Class Hons (1963) Southampton University, MPhil (1967) University of London, PhD (1970) City University London.

General Electric Co. in Coventry (1961-63): main work on Filter Design and PCM systems design.

Lecturer (1963), Reader (1970) and Professor and Director, Centre for Information Engineering (1982) at City University London.

Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, King’s College London (1990-9).

Visiting appointments: One year as Lecturer, University of British Columbia (1968-9); One year as Visiting Full Professor, Purdue University (1973-4); One year Royal Society Fellowship, British Aerospace, Army Weapons Division, Stevenage (1987-8).

Short course teaching including courses on microprocessors for George Washington University in London, Berlin and Washington DC (1979-1981); Consultant to Admiralty Underwater Weapons Establishment, Portland, Dorset.

Retired 1999, awarded title ‘Emeritus Professor’ at King’s College London, Visiting Professor (2002-present), Kingston University, Surrey, England.

Married, two children: Daughter with PhD in Pharmacology, now Trials Manager, Wales Cancer Trials Unit, Cardiff, Wales. Son with BMus, freelance classical musician (violin)

Some IEEE volunteer-responsibilities:

Present: Region 8 History Activities Coordinator (2013)

Previous:

IEEE History Committee (2012); TAB Society Review Committee (2005-2007); IEEE Region 8 Director and member of IEEE Board of Directors (2003-2004); Region 8 Vice Chair, Technical Activities (Jan 2001-Dec 2002); Region 8 Chair of Chapter Coordination Committee (Jan 1997 to Dec 2000); Region 8 Vice President of Circuits and Systems Society (elected from Jan 1998 to Dec 2001) ; Chair of UKRI Section of IEEE (1992 and 1993) ; Chair of UKRI Circuit Theory Chapter (title later Circuits and Systems)

Memberships and Awards:

Chartered Engineer, IEE Fellow, BCS Member and IEEE Life Fellow.

Circuits and Systems Society Jubilee medal, IEEE Millennium medal in 2000.

Contact information:

King’s College London (retired), UK

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Lecture topics:

  1. Decision Points in Career and Life and Being a Volunteer

The talk discusses the basis and implications of decision points in life and career, and the illustrates this with aspects of my life as a volunteer, leading from army service through to becoming a member of the IEEE Board of Directors.

This is accepted in a shortened form for publication in the IEEE TEMSYP Magazine (without the colour photos, etc which are included in the verbal presentations) for March 2016

  1. The Introduction of FM Broadcasting in Britain

See: The Introduction of Frequency Modulation for Sound Broadcasting in Britain, in Proceedings of Conference '110 Anniversary of Radio Invention', 18th-21nd May 2005, St. Petersburg, Russia, Volume I, pp 52-57.

  1. British Army Battlefield Radios of the WW2 era

See: "WW2 British Army Battlefield Wireless Communications Equipment", HISTELCON, Paris, September 2008, pp 83-90, IEEE Cat. CFP08HIE-CDR, ISBN 978-1-4244-2531-0, Library of Congress 2008903942.

  1. The V1 ‘flying bomb’ of World War Two

(unpublished report, in progress)

  1. British Military Wavemeters of the 20th Century

See: "The Rise and Fall of the Military Wavemeter: British Military Wavemeters of the 20th Century", Proceedings of HISTELCON 2012, Pavia, Italy, 5-7 September 2012 (available in IEEE Xplore)

Note that because of my age and the high cost of medical insurance for foreign travel, I am generally only available to give lectures within the United Kingdom. However, I am willing to give a lecture on topics such as those above at any mutually convenient time anywhere in the United Kingdom.