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Article: Michael Adams.
- Article from:
- Cable World
- Article date:
- June 3, 2002
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Michael Adams may not be a household name, but he's a bona fide star on Amazon.com. His digital television primer OpenCable Architecture (Cisco Press, 2000) garnered perfect five-star reviews from each customer that wrote in; one Adams fan called the 480 page tome a "real page-turner" and cheered that "Calculus is not a prerequisite!" for enjoyment of the book.
Such an enthusiastic reception for what is essentially a textbook should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with the Time Warner Cable VP and principal network architect's back story.
In summer 1993, the British electronics engineer was working for Northern Telecom's research team, ...