Biography

Clyde R. Camp received his B.S.E.E. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1969, and his Master's Degree in computer science from Southern Methodist University in 1975. He may be reached via email at c.camp@ieee.org.

During the first half of his 29-year career at TI his responsibilities included designing H/W and S/W components of real-time embedded computer systems within TI's Military Products Division; managing TI's Industrial Systems Division's System Engineering Department and working with AI Languages and Real Time Systems development  in the Computer Science Center's Computer Systems Laboratory in Dallas.

Overlapping this, for the last 20 years, he has been heavily involved in the national and international standards industry, first managing TI's Corporate Standards Office as its Director of Standards, then working for the Uniform Code Council as their Director of Standards Development and most recently employed by InterDigital Communications Corporation as their Director of Information Technology Standards.  He has also taught graduate classes in Visual Basic 6 and HTML/Web Design at the University of Texas in Dallas and consulted with national and international standards developing organizations and local industry on Strategic Standards Management.

Clyde is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has held numerous standards-related positions on various ISO Technical Advisory Groups for the US as well as in the Computer Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the National Committee on Information Technology Standards. Until 2005 he was a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas.

At home, Clyde and his family enjoy science fiction, astronomy, woodworking, macaws, the desert Southwest and hacking (in the original good sense).