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Carl R. Stevenson, president & CTO of WK3C Wireless LLC, NAMED TO THE THE 2005 “SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 50” AS A “POLICY LEADER” FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO the development of better wireless networking standards

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NEW YORK, November 7, 2005 - Carl R. Stevenson has been named by Scientific American magazine as a Policy Leader within the 2005 Scientific American 50 - the magazine’s prestigious annual list recognizing outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the past year.

Announced today, the Scientific American 50 appears in the magazine’s December issue, arriving on newsstands November 22. The complete list may also be accessed on the magazine’s website at www.sciam.com.

Said Editor-in-Chief John Rennie: “The Scientific American 50 is our annual opportunity to salute the people and organizations worldwide whose research, policy or business leadership has played a major role in bringing about the science and technology innovations that are improving the way we live and offer the greatest hope for the future.”

Selected by the magazine’s Board of Editors with the help of distinguished outside advisors, the Scientific American 50 spotlights a Research Leader of the Year, a Business Leader of the Year and a Policy Leader of the Year. The list also recognizes research, business and policy leaders who have played a critical role in advancing key technology trends of the past year. such as the rise of Stem Cells, Flexible Electronics, Silicon Lasers, Flu Preparedness and more.

Mr. Stevenson has been named a Policy Leader because of his work over the last year in developing better wireless networking standards.

Mr. Stevenson is President and CTO of WK3C Wireless LLC, an Emmaus, PA consulting firm specializing in the areas of wireless standards, regulatory affairs, and design services. He has been involved in the design and development of RF communications systems and equipment for over 35 years. He is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE 802 LMSC Executive Committee, Chair of the IEEE 802.22 Working Group on Wireless Regional Area Networks, a Member-at-Large of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy, was recently elected to a seat on the IEEE Standards Association’s Board of Governors for the 2006-2007 term, and has been named the recipient of the IEEE Standards Association International Award for 2005.

From its inception several years earlier until November 2004, he served as Chair of the IEEE 802.18 Radio Regulatory Technical Advisory Group. He also previously served as the liaison to the ITU-R for the IEEE’s Sector Membership, Chair of the Wi-Fi Alliance Regulatory Committee, Chair of the Bluetooth SIG Radio Workgroup, and a member of the US Delegation to the World Radicommunications Conference 2003.

Mr. Stevenson said: “I am extremely honored to be recognized for my work in the area of wireless networking standards and to be named as a Policy Leader of the Scientific American 50, with its singular stature in the world of science and technology.”

Past Scientific American 50 winners have spotlighted visionaries from an array of fields. Prior honorees have included stem cell researcher Douglas A. Melton, Professor of the National Sciences at Harvard (2004 Policy Leader of the Year); Nobel prize-winning neurobiologist Roderick MacKinnon, Professor of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics of Rockefeller University (2003 Research Leader of the Year); aviation leader Burt Rutan, President, Scaled Composites (2003 Aerospace/Business Leader); global public health leader Gro Harlem Brundtland, former World Health Organization Secretary General (2003 Policy Leader of the Year); corporate chief Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO, General Electric Company (2002 General Technology/Business Leader); and high tech innovator Steven Jobs, CEO, Apple (2002 Communications/Business Leader).

Founded in 1845, editorial contributors to Scientific American have included over 100 Nobel laureates, among them Albert Einstein, Neils Bohr, Francis Crick, Stanley Prusiner and Harold Varmus. Scientific American, Inc. is a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, a U.S. subsidiary of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a privately held international media corporation operating in more than 40 countries. In addition to Scientific American, Holtzbrinck Publishers include the book publishing houses Farrar, Straus & Giroux; W.H. Freeman; Henry Holt and Company; St. Martin’s Press and the academic scholarly publishing company Palgrave U.S.; the College Publishing Group of Bedford Freeman Worth; and the distribution company VHPS.

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