The invention of WiFi is an international phenomenon, with around 3.8 billion internet users and more than eight billion gadgets connected to the internet every day. WiFi was a team effort, albeit one that started by accident. Australian radio astronomer John O’Sullivan was involved in the project along with a group of scientists who were trying to prove Stephen Hawking’s theory about the evaporation of black holes was correct. While the project did not become a breakthrough until the mid-2000s, it has been the most popular technology to date.
Dr. John O’Sullivan’s contribution to the development of Wi-Fi
The invention of WiFi has been attributed to several Australians, including Dr. John O’Sullivan and Dr. Terry Percival. They worked with CSIRO to develop the first patent for WiFi and later settled a legal dispute with major corporations. Dr. O’Sullivan is credited with the development of wireless LAN technology and was awarded the $300,000 Prime Minister’s Science Prize.
The invention of WiFi is credited to an Australian electrical engineer and astronomer, Dr. John O’Sullivan. He studied under Chris Christiansen and worked with Dr. Robert Frater on the Fleurs Synthesis Radiotelescope. Today, he is the Technical Director of Qorvo and the Inventor of WiFi at Morse Micro. Dr. O’Sullivan’s contribution to the development of WiFi is widely acknowledged.
In 1999, Dr. O’Sullivan became a consultant for Radiata Communications, a company that commercialized his wireless LAN patent. 
He spent the next decade working in the corporate world but is now back in astronomy. He is currently involved with a $3 billion international project to design the SKA (super-conducting microwave antenna).
Aside from his contribution to WiFi, Dr. John O’Sullivan started his career in radio astronomy. While studying the structure of radio waves, he and his team filed through hundreds of millimeter films. O’Sullivan then developed a chip that was based on Fourier transforms. By breaking up signals into different frequencies, he was able to process information more efficiently. Today, WiFi is ubiquitous, and Dr. O’Sullivan’s work is still being studied by scientists around the world.
Dr. John F. Kennedy’s involvement in the development of Wi-Fi
Wireless Internet is a major development for our society, and the involvement of Dr. John F. Kennedy is an example of how his involvement can benefit our society. He is a member of the National Science Foundation and has been a leading advocate for its development. While working on his Ph.D., Dr. Kennedy became an early adopter of WiFi. He also is involved in several other projects, including promoting the use of the Internet in healthcare.
In 1995, President Kennedy’s involvement in the development of WiFi was a way to honor the memory of his father, the late President. While campaigning for the U.S. presidential election, he had been a member of the United Nations’ Board of Science and Technology. This experience left him an expert on wireless technology and helped to spur his country to act on behalf of the public. He was able to influence Vandiver to act promptly.
As an ensign, he arranged for the arrival of American survivors from the SS Athenia. The United States Navy’s first transatlantic flight was made by John F. Kennedy in 1941. Throughout his life, he was a world-famous figure. He wrote a best-selling book on the topic, entitled Why England Slept – The Impact of the Hitler Threat on the British Empire.
The CSIRO’s pioneering work in radioastronomy
Pioneering radioastronomy research in Australia dates back to the mid-1940s, when the CSIRO, a branch of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, was founded. Its pioneering work in radio astronomy was led by physicist Dr. Joseph Pawsey, who later became its head. Payne-Scott, an outspoken advocate for women’s rights, was hired as a full-time scientist and eventually became the CSIRO’s first woman director.
The radio astronomy field emerged in Australia, and in Sydney in particular. In 1953, Bernard Mills pioneered radio astronomy with the Mills Cross telescope, located in Badgery’s Creek near Sydney’s second international airport. The group was able to discover a pulsar, or radio source, which was the debris of an exploded star. Then, in 1975, Pawsey’s group built a dish-type telescope and pinpointed the center of our galaxy.
In the early 1990s, Australia was on the cusp of taking the lead in radio astronomy again. It’s currently in the running to host the international Square Kilometre Array, a massive radio telescope consisting of thousands of small antennas. When completed, this array will be ten thousand times more powerful than any other instrument on Earth. Already, the CSIRO has built a prototype Australian SKA Pathfinder, while the Murchison Widefield Array is collecting data.
