Special Publications
Wim wrote the book "Fundamentals of Optical Fiber Communications", co-authored by Jan van der Plaats; ISBN 0-13-717513-2. The book was issued by Prentice Hall in 1991.
This book was re-issued by Twente University Press in 2000 as "Principles of Optical Fiber Communications"; ISBN 9036515092.
Wim also wrote the book "Introduction to Random Signals and Noise"; ISBN-13 978-0-470-02411-90. This was issued by Wiley in 2005.
In 2002 the IEEE Communication Society celebrated its 50-th anniversary and at that occasion published a list of 57 key papers that were published by the society in the past 50 years. Out of 28,000 papers two of his papers were selected on this list. These two papers are found in Wim's list of publications under numbers 1.4 and 1.6.
The papers were published in the book "The Best of the Best"; ISBN-13 978-0-470-11268-7. The book was issued by Wiley in cooperation with IEEE Press in 2007.
After his appointment as full-professor at the University of Twente in 1994 Wim gave an inaugural lecture on 20 april 1995, titled "Weg van de Snelweg?" (in Dutch).
On 2 november 2007 he gave his farewell lecture titled "Bouwen in de Woestijn" (in Dutch).
