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”’John 0. Limb”’ is an American engineer, known for fundamental contributions to the development of digital video communications and holder of a long series of patent related to [[computer communication]]s.<ref>[http://www.patentgenius.com/inventedby/LimbJohnOAtlantaGA.html patentlist]</ref>

Born in [[Western Australia]] he got [[B.Sc.]] in [[electrical engineering]] (1963) and [[Ph.D.]] on the thesis ”Vision Oriented Coding of Visual Signal” (1967), both from the [[University of Western Australia]].<ref>[http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center/biography/limb.html biography] from [[IEEE]]</ref>
Limb studied the human vision’s role in the encoding of picture, partially under the direction of Dr. Albert Seyler and Professor Zig Budrikis.
He worked as researcher at the [[Australian Post]] (the ”Postmaster General’s research laboratory”) in [[Melbourne]] (1966-67) before moving to [[New Jersey]] where joined [[Bell Labs]] (1967), being manager of the department for
visual communications research (1971-78) leading to patents.<ref>{{US patent|4129882}}</ref> He then led the research department for distributed computer systems (1978-84) before going to [[Bellcore]] research where Limb was in charge of developing the new research division for communications sciences (1984-86) where he among other projects, developed [[medium access control]] protocols for [[local area network]]s.<ref>{{US Patent|4412326}}</ref> Later he joined [[Hewlett Packard]] as director of laboratories in [[Bristol, England]] (1986-89), for the technology analysis group at [[Cupertino, California]] (1989) and for the media technology group (1992-94). Distributed Computer Systems Research Department where the emphasis was on office information systems and local/metropolitan area networks. Recently, he has worked on [[optical communication]] systems at [[Broadcom]], working at [[Atlanta, Georgia]].<ref>{{US patent|7245621}}</ref>

He has held visiting professorships at the [[Technical University of Hanover]] (1975), the [[University of Sydney]] (1983), and the [[University of Essex]] (1985-86). He joined the faculty at the college of computing at [[Georgia Tech]] (1994) as ”Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Advanced Telecommunications” where he started the ”Broadband telecom” center (1995).
==Publications==
*”Advances in [[local area network]]s” ([[IEEE]] press, 1987)
==Awards==
*[[IEEE Fellow]] 1978
*IEEE Communications Society L.G. Abraham Award for best paper 1973
*Donald G. Fink Award for the best review paper published in the Proceedings of the IEEE in 1980.
*1991 [[IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal]], along with [[C. Chapin Cutler]] and [[Arun N. Netravali]]
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