Announcing the 3rd Edition of IEEE ComSoc’s "A Brief History of Communications"
(Jan 20, 2026) I am proud to announce the publication of the third edition of A Brief History of Communications, commissioned by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) to mark its 70th anniversary. As the Executive Editor for this edition, I had the privilege of helping to document a decade of unprecedented technological change. Since the previous edition in 2012, the industry has shifted from the foundational deployment of 5G and massive MIMO to the sophisticated frontiers of 6G development—including reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing, and semantic communication.
Beyond the technical evolution, this edition addresses a vital historical gap with a new chapter dedicated to "Women’s Contribution to Advances in Communications." It was an honour to help bring these long-overdue narratives to the forefront of the Society's official history.
This project reflects the core of my work: distilling the most complex engineering breakthroughs into clear, historically significant narratives that define where our industry has been and where it is going next.
Recent articles
Here is a recent selection of articles I have written for my clients, Nokia and BMO. They have been published under the byline of an executive or subject matter expert (SME) at each company. We develop or they provide me with an abstract that the publication has expressed interest in publishing, I meet with the author and other SMEs, do independent research on the publication and its typical audience, and write the piece with final input from the author and Nokia.
“Ensure a robust AI-native 6G security posture,” Nokia, 27 Nov 2025
“The evolution of IXPs to meet the growing demands of the enterprise,” RCR Wireless, 26 Jun 2025
“How We Harnessed Deep Learning for a Better Customer and Partner Experience,” CIO Review, Dec 2023
“Next-gen Warehouse Operations Start with Next-gen Wireless,” Automation.com, 5 Jan 2023
“Building a broadband foundation for public safety at the state level,” Government Technology Insider, Dec 2021
“5G and the digitalization of education,” Education Technology Insights, Dec 2021
“Digital transformation of water lifecycle management,” WaterWorld, Dec 2021
“Stephane Daeuble: Crossing the digital divide with Citizens Broadband Radio Service,” Broadband Breakfast, Dec 2021
“A new approach to rail cyber-security,” RailProfessional, Nov 2021
“It’s time to move to MRO 4.0 with 5G,” AviationPros, Oct 2021
“Digitally transforming today’s wind farms,” Wind Systems, Sep 2021
“A view from Nokia,” Port Engineering Management, Jul/Aug 2021
“Building digital railways with 5G and FRMCS,” Railway International, June 2021
“Does lean have a limit,” Inbound Logistics, May 2021
“Key technologies making resource industry safer, more sustainable,” Resource World, March 2021
“Energy utilities and digital skills,” RT Insights, Jan 2021
“2021 - trending positive,” The Fast Mode, Jan 2021
“The importance of partners in mining digital transformation,” Mining Global, Dec 2020
“Private wireless networks will play a key role in E&P sector,” HartEnergy, Dec 2020
“Nokia on 2021: A private 5reality check, a private 4G mass market, a new industrial era,” IoT Enterprise Insights, Dec 2020
“Building digital trust with 5G,” GCN, Nov 2020
“Application capacity starts with the network fabric,” ITProPortal Nov 2020
“5G standard evolution and its public safety impact,” MissionCritical Communications (RadioResource International), Nov 2020
“Cloud gaming don’t mean a thing, if you ain’t got that ping,” VentureBeat, Nov 2020
“Industry 4.0: expanding the use case,” Critical Communications Week, Oct 2020
“Think Tank: collaboration, as G much as tech, will rebuild smart cities,” Smart Cities World, Oct 2020
Byline articles
These are articles I have published under my own name for Nokia Bell Labs.
“This researcher is pushing passive optical networks to multiple limits,” Bell Labs Research Profile, Sep 2021
“Turning garbage into gold: Andy Chraplyvy and the discovery of TrueWave fiber,” Bell Labs Research Profile, May 2021
Books and web sites
I was the managing editor working with teams of researchers and writers to produce:
IEEE Communications Society, A Brief History of Communicataions (3rd edition), 20 Jan 2026
Weldon, M., The Future X Network: A Bell Labs Perspective, O’Reilly, 2015.
I was the managing editor and wrote many of the entries for:
The IEEE’s Interactive Guide to Communications History
This is just a sample of my writings and editing projects. If you are interested in seeing examples of white papers I have written or edited, blog posts or marketing materials, please contact me.