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Wednesday,
21st April 9:30am - 10:30am
Title:
Wireless
Directions for the 21st Century
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Dr.
Richard D. Gitlin
(Wireless Network Pioneer and Co-Inventor of
DSL)
State of Florida 21st
Century World Class Scholar and the Agere
Systems Chair Distinguished Professor of
Electrical Engineering, University of South
Florida
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Abstract:
Wireless communication has been touted as the fastest
growing technology in history ---as early as 2001 the
number of mobiles exceeded the number of land lines
globally. Currently, new wireless applications and
services continue to emerge on an almost daily basis,
the number of users of these services, including
machines, are growing at an exponential rate, and we are
making continuous progress in
enabling seamless
communications between wireless devices across many
different wireless standards. This growth is being
fueled by the almost weekly announcement of new devices,
like the iPad or the latest smart phone; however, the
communications service providers need to provide the
enormous network capacity and reliability to satisfy
these data-hungry devices that demand ever more
bandwidth.
This talk will discuss the
wireless communications and networking technological
landscape, some emerging developments, recent research
advances that address capacity and reliability
improvement of wireless networks, including hybrid WLAN
(WiFi/femtocell)-WAN (cellular) networking, cooperative
communications, network coding, networked
multiple-antenna MIMO systems, and will speculate on at
least one new applications domain. Indeed, advanced
communications systems, including MIMO, are ubiquitous
in a wide variety of environments: on Mars, in deep
space, oceans, in your backyards, and even…
MIMO in vivo.
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Wednesday, 21st April
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner Banquet Talk
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Dr. Robert E. Kahn,
Internet Pioneer and
Co-Inventor of TCP/IP
Chairman, CEO, and President of the
Corporation for National Research Initiatives
(CNRI)
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Bio:
Dr. Kahn
is Chairman, CEO, and President of the Corporation for
National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded
in 1986 after a thirteen year term at the U.S. Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). CNRI was
created as a not-for-profit organization to provide
leadership and funding for research and development of
the National Information Infrastructure.
Dr. Kahn is a member of the National Academy of
Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAAI, a
Fellow of ACM and a Fellow of the Computer History
Museum. He is a member of the State Department's
Advisory Committee on International Communications and
Information Policy, a former member of the President's
Information Technology Advisory Committee, a former
member of the Board of Regents of the National Library
of Medicine and the President's Advisory Council on the
National Information Infrastructure.
He is a recipient of the AFIPS Harry Goode Memorial
Award, the Marconi Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the
President's Award from ACM, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi
Computer and Communications Award, the IEEE Alexander
Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the
ACM Software Systems Award, the
Computerworld/Smithsonian Award, the ASIS Special Award
and the Public Service Award from the Computing Research
Board. He has twice received the Secretary of Defense
Civilian Service Award. He is a recipient of the 1997
National Medal of Technology, the 2001 Charles Stark
Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering,
the 2002 Prince of Asturias Award, and the 2004 A. M.
Turing Award from the Association for Computing
Machinery. Dr. Kahn received the 2003 Digital ID World
award for the Digital Object Architecture as a
significant contribution (technology, policy or social)
to the digital identity industry. In 2005, he was
awarded the Townsend Harris Medal from the Alumni
Association of the City College of New York, the
Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the C & C Prize in
Tokyo, Japan. He was inducted into the National
Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006, and awarded the
Japan Prize for his work in "Information Communication
Theory and Technology" in 2008.
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