Resume of Robert D. Poor Resume of Robert D. Poor Summary Having accrued over 20 years of professional experience in and around Silicon Valley, Robert Poor is a seasoned leader of engineering teams, hardware designer and software engineer. Currently a Ph.D. student at the MIT Media Laboratory, Poor's current research is focused on Embedded Networks, a new class of wireless network for creating inexpensive, scalable, easily deployed connections for common manufactured goods.
Wired solutions are inappropriate because of the time and expense associated with running cables.
Current wireless solutions eliminate the wires, but use centralized access points that don t scale well beyond a few dozen nodes. Control of the network is decentralized there is no base station or centralized point of command and distributed each node shares in the overall maintenance of the network and routing of data packets. The result is a system that is inexpensive to manufacture, scalable to hundreds or thousands of nodes and exceptionally easy to set up and maintain. Inc. Director of Research and Development Led a team of 25 software and hardware engineers at Opcode , a company that produces multimedia authoring tools. Charted future strategy while managing day to day development.