David J. Goodman (M'67-SM'86-F'88) is currently a Program Director at the National Science Foundation on leave from his position as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. At Poly, he was Director of WICAT, the Wireless Internet Center of Advanced Technology, a National Science Foundation Industry/University Cooperative Research Center. Prior to joining Poly in 1999, he was at Rutgers University where he was founding director of WINLAB, the Wireless Information Network Laboratory. Until 1988, he was a Department Head in Communications Systems Research at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Goodman was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering in recognition of his contributions to digital signal processing and wireless communications.