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                              | William Stallings, Ph.D. 
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                     | William Stallings, Ph.D. is a consultant, lecturer, and author of over a dozen professional reference books and textbooks
                        
                        on data communications and computer networking. His clients have included major corporations and government 
                        agencies in the United States and Europe. He has four times received the award for the 
                        Best Computer Science Textbook Of The Year from the Text and Academic Authors Association. 
                        He has designed and implemented both TCP/IP-based and OSI-based protocol suites on a variety of 
                        computers and operating systems, ranging from microcomputers to mainframes. 
                        Bill created and maintains the Computer Science Student Resource Site at http://WilliamStallings.com/StudentSupport.html |