Creator of PC Modem

Dennis Hayes, born in 1950, is the founder of the Hayes Microcomputer company, better known as a modem maker and has been used in most modems manufactured to this day. He left the Georgia Institute of Technology in the mid-1970s to work at a communications company, National Data Corporation in Atlanta, a company that handles electronic money transfers and credit card authorization. Hayes' job is to set up a modem connection for that NDC customer. He met Dale Heatherington at the National Data Corporation Corporation.

Together they developed and marketed high-quality modems for IBM's first PC, and built a company called Hayes Communication. While Heatherington left the company for early retirement, Hayes ran the company to bankruptcy in 1998. Dennis C. Hayes invented the modem for personal computers (PCs) in 1977, whose results were able to establish the most important technology that makes today's world can be always online, and awaken the Internet industry to grow. He first sold a modem product called Hayes to a computer enthusiast par in April 1977, and later founded the company D.C. Hayes Associates, Inc., which later became known as Hayes Corp., in January 1978. The quality and innovation of Hayes products resulted in increased performance and cost reduction so as to lead the industry in Transition from leased line modem to intelligent dial-up modem for PC .

By the time he started his company, Hayes had more than 10 years of experience working with computer systems ranging from large to small, telecommunications, manufacturing and electronics product development. During a lecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Hayes participated in a co-operation program working for AT & T Long Lines. Then he joined the Financial Data Services where he worked on the system with the first 4-bit microprocessor. After completing his studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Hayes then worked for National Data

Corporation, where he developed a microcomputer-based system to connect to the network. Hayes went on to study at the School of Management and Strategic Studies at the Western Behavior Science Institute.

Company D.C. Hayes Associates started out at Hayes' house, where he started with an investment of $ 5,000; and then skyrocketed into a leading company in the IT industry. The first product is a modem board for the s-100 bus and then for Apple II computers. Troubleshooting interfaces that allow computers to use a standard serial port to control modem functions through software, it finds a command set for Hayes Standard AT which was first introduced for PC modems in June 1981.

Furthermore Hayes products, SmartModem quickly became the standard with modem compatibility has been measured carefully, so the company then began to grow quickly. For more than 20 years as Chairman at Hayes Corp., he led his company as a visionary who sees a golden opportunity to develop PC communications and virtual workplace tools. After successfully directing the company into a merger, which eventually resulted in a new company that has a policy of becoming a public company from Hayes Corporation to Dennis C. Hayes then decided to retire as Chairman at the end of 1998, to continue his interest in other industries, including the Association of Online Professionals.

In Spartanburg, South Carolina, Hayes is also active in other industrial asisoasi social communities. He was the founder and chairman of the Public Policy Committee of CompTIA, The Computing Technology Industry Association, Founding Chairman of the Georgia High Tech Alliance, and established the Board Member of the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunication Technology. Hayes is one of 4 people included in Georgia's Technology Hall of Fame. He currently serves as Chairman of the Association of Online Professionals, who merged with the US Internet Industry Association.