TABLE OF CONTENTS by Raymond Todd
Raymond Todd is an IT manager for a private university in Tempe, Arizona. He has over 12 years of experience in managing technology projects, teams, and systems. Raymond teaches several courses that focus on thinking and brain performance, as well as managing technology, systems, and change. He is the comoderator of the Phoenix Future Salon through the Accelerated Studies Foundation and serves on the board of directors for the Greater Arizona eLearning Association and the Arizona Telecommunications and Information Council. In addition, he is the faculty sponsor for DC480, the university s hacking club.
For the past few years I have been passionate about increasing the sophistication of wireless users through ethical war driving and the development of grass roots educational programs. It all started back in the fall of 2004 when I and a group of colleagues sat around a table to discuss ideas we could implement in our area with limited funding but that would have maximum impact on the community. Collectively, we came up with the idea of conducting a war driving research project to assess the growth of wireless networks over a 12-month period in a major metropolitan area specifically the Phoenix, Arizona area.
Phoenix is a large metropolitan city with a representative population that is ideal for collecting demographic data. Covering over 9200 square miles, the Phoenix Valley metroplex is the sixth largest city in the U.S., and as the population of the valley grows, so does the widespread use of the Internet,...
