Bluetooth

I was an engineer at Intel Corporation for 27 years or so (joined June of 1986 and left December 2012) where I did many neat things and worked with some pretty awesome engineers.  One of the projects I got to work on is Bluetooth technology.  In the late 90's I helped form and lead a Special Interest Group I codenamed Bluetooth, after the 10th century Danish King.

While I've done many interesting technology things (have over 100 patents, 5 Intel Achievement Awards, was a Senior Principal Engineer and Chief Power Technology Officier for Intel), it 

appears I will be remembered for naming the Bluetooth technology (never thought that would happen). 25 years after the face I'm still meeting with my buddies I worked with on developing Bluetooth, and now I'm part of an exhibit at Danish National Museum (the Viking Kings Muesum) in Jelling Denmark, which was King Harald Bluetooth's capitol and is the location of the Jelling stone which inspired the codename for this famous radio technology.

This page summarizes most of my articles and videos across the years during the development of the Bluetooth technology.

Here are some interesting stories about the naming of Bluetooth:

• • How a technology was named.

  • Intel Press Article

  • EE Times Article

  • SnapEDA Article

  • Saratoga High School Article

  • Bluetooth Blues

  • 25th Bluetooth Anniversary in Jelling

Videos

• • Videos During the Bluetooth Development

    • 1988 Bluetooth Launch Video with Andy Grove

    • Jim & Simon go around the Monte Carlo Grand Prix Race Course in a Blue Ferrari (The bribe to write "How a Technology was Named").

    • Bluetooth Discover Awards and London Developer Conference

    • Bluetooth Usage Model Videos

      • David Dibblehouser Misses a Meeting

      • San Francisco Usage Model Video 

  • Videos from the 20th Anniversary:

    • Bluetooth Blues Performance (more or less)

    • My commercial for the Bluetooth World Congress (20th anniversary, see Lucy in the background)

  • Tom Scott on the naming of Bluetooth

  • Videos from the 25th Anniversary:

    • Bluetooth Days (summary of the 25th Anniversary Events)

    • The Story of Bluetooth (Interviews at Jelling Museum)

    • The great apology (we borrowed the name from Denmark without asking permission)

    • Interviews done by the Danish National Museum around the 25th anniversary of the Bluetooth Technology and the historic links to King Harald "Bluetooth" Gormsson. Mostly in Danish, but at the end is an interview with yours truely on the naming and impact of the technology.

    • Signing of comic books on the naming of Bluetooth technology and its links to the historic Bluetooth