José Morales Barroso ( jmb@ieee.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) is co-founder and director of L&M Data Communications. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and, as a “Balloting Group Member,” he works on Ethernet development as part of the LAN MAN Standards Committee P802.3 of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE–SA). Mr. Morales Barroso also served as a member of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) from 1980 to 1990.   From 1975 to 1994, he was a professor at the ICAI Engineering School of Madrid, where he taught classes on industrial electronics and communications networks and was a faculty adviser for academic projects on solar energy. His research was featured in The Annals of Mechanics and Electricity, a leading Spanish-language engineering magazine, and was also published as professional articles.   In 1988, Mr. Morales Barroso co-founded L&M Data Communications, a Spanish company dedicated to training and consulting in data communications. From 1986 to 1987, he was a member of the TESYS B/X.25 design team for the Spanish network IBERPAC, together with the engineers who in 1971 first developed RSAN, the world’s first public packet-switched network. In 1976, Mr. Morales Barroso started his career as a technical systems engineer and later became a communications services director for INFONET, a data network sector of the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).   He has taught more than 900 courses in data communications and has written 35 books and 60 reference guides, as well as many magazine articles, reports, and technical documents. His book “Information Paths, Ways and Freeways: The History of Computers and Communications” was selected by Muy Interesante, the largest circulated Spanish-language scientific magazine, as one of the best pieces on science, medicine and technology of the 20th century.   Mr. Morales Barroso received an undergraduate degree in electromechanical engineering in 1975 and a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering in 1989