Thomas Lee, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, takes us through the history of RFID and its applications. It offers both an overview of the topic and an insight of how it is used with examples ranging from healthcare to the airspace industry. Tom discusses issues of RFID such as costs and security.

Thomas H. Lee received the S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1990, respectively. He joined Analog Devices in 1990 where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock recovery devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc. in Mountain View, CA, where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs. He has also contributed to the development of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS. He has twice received the "Best Paper" award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, co-authored a "Best Student Paper" at ISSCC, was awarded the Best Paper prize at CICC, and is a Packard Foundation Fellowship recipient. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Solid-State Circuits and Microwave Societies. He holds 33 U.S. patents and authored The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Cambridge Press, now in its second edition. He is a co-author of three additional books on RF circuit design, and also cofounded Matrix Semiconductor.