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2007 IEEE SCV ComSoc Monthly Meeting Presentations
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Date:
Wed. June 11, 2008, 6:00 - 8:50PM
Title:Mobile TV/Video Workshop
Sponsors:IEEE ComSoC SCV and NATEA
Speaker1: Colin Dixon, Practice Manager Broadband Media
Subject: Mobility of Video: Market Landscape and Dynamics
Speaker2: Christopher Dow, Director of Software Development and Architecture, Macrovision Corp
Subject: Technical Challenges and Opportunities in Mobile Video
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Wed. May 14, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00PM
Title:Extending the concept of Femtocells to the outdoor enterprise
Speaker: Francis daCosta, Founder, MeshDynamics
Biography:Francis daCosta founded MeshDynamics to develop high performance
wireless mesh networks for wide area coverage of voice, video and data.
Francis has been a research scientist for Northrop and MITRE. Francis has a
Masters from Stanford University and a Bachelors from Indian Institute of
Technology, Delhi. He is a member of IEEE.
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Wed. April. 9, 2008, 6:00 - 8:40PM
Title:Fourth generation (4G) mobile smartphone architecture targeted for China and US markets
Speaker: Prof. Willie W. Lu, U.S. Center for Wireless Communications® (USCWC®)
Biography:Dr. Willie W. Lu, a former Stanford University Professor, is now executive director of U.S. Center for Wireless Communications (USCWC) in Palo Alto, California, and a special advisor on emerging technologies and strategies in several China information and communications authorities as well as a technology expert committee member and examiner for European Commission's FP6 and FP7 programs. Prof. Lu was member of Technological Advisory Council of U.S. Federal Communications Commission (US FCC-TAC), and a chief wireless architect and vice president of Siemens and Infineon Technologies. He is also an internationally very well recognized and accredited senior expert in emerging wireless technologies and has been a senior technical advisor for 22 wireless communication authorities in more than 10 countries. He is an independent technical examiner for lots of high-tech venture capitals in the United States, Europe, Asia, and other places, and is listed in major Who's Whos in the world. He has guest edited around 50 special issues on emerging wireless communications in IEEE, IEICE, ACM and other major publications, and has had over 180 papers published in major professional publications as well as about 80 papers in SCI index. Prof. Lu was member of the editorial board of IEEE Spectrum, the flag of IEEE. He has been technical program chairman of numerous IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM'03, WCNC'02, VTC'03, and WWC'00-07, and wireless feature editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (former J-SAC Wireless), and others. He is a frequent keynote and featured speaker at lots of global technical fora, and a prominent wireless pioneer on the worldwide basis. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, IEICE, CIC and Sigma Xi, and an adjunct professor at many world-class universities in the world. Willie is also the founding chairman of the prestigious World Wireless Congress, Global Mobile Congress and Fourth Generation Mobile Forum (4GMF), and has been a distinguished and notable Chinese wireless expert overseas by Chinese central government since 1996.
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Date:
Wed. March. 12, 2008, 6:00 - 8:40PM
Title:Next Generation Wireless Broadband Workshop
Sponsors:IEEE ComSoC SCV and NATEA
Speaker1: Bruce Himebauch, Director, Atheros
Subject: Evolution of IEEE 802.11 Standards
Speaker2: Rehan Jalil, CEO, Wichorus
Subject: Innovation in E2E Architecture of 4G and WiMAX Networks
Speaker3: Dr. William Lee, Chairman, Treyspan
Subject: 4G Technologies for Spectrum Efficiency of Data Transmission and Voice"
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Date:
Wed. Feb. 13, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00PM
Title:Telepresence Goes Global
Speaker: Chuck Stucki, Vice President/General Manager, TelePresence Systems Business Unit, Cisco
Biography:Charles Stucki is the General Manager for Cisco's TelePresence business unit. In this specific role, he is responsible for the TelePresence product development and engineering roadmap as well as the creation of the integrated go-to-market strategy which includes the development of the services, channels, and deployment of Cisco TelePresence into the market. Previously, he led business development for Cisco's Emerging Technologies Group, an engineering organization focused on incubating internal ventures.
Mr. Stucki holds a B.S., summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University, a CPA, and an MBA, with high distinction, from the Harvard Business School.
Meeting Summary: by Alan Weissberger.
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Wed. Jan. 16, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00PM
Title:The Internet in Your Pocket – MIDs and WiMAX
Speaker: Dr. Rama K. Shukla, Vice President of the Mobility Group and Director, WiMax Program Office at Intel Corporation
Biography:Dr. Shukla joined Intel in 1979.
Previous to his current assignment, Dr. Shukla has held a number of technical and business management positions spanning 28 years of his career with Intel Corporation. These include positions such as Engineering Manager and Centrino® Platform Program Management in Mobility Group, General Manager & Director of the Silicon based Photonics Optical Components business group and various positions ranging from individual technical contributor to group manager/director involving the development of Silicon IC process and associated packaging/interconnect technologies.
Dr. Shukla received his master's degree in solid state chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India & Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. He holds several patents and has published numerous papers related to silicon device processing and assembly technologies. He received IEEE Manufacturing Technology of the Year Award in 2000 for leading IC industry transition to flip-chip laminated package & interconnects technologies at Intel Corporation.
Meeting Summary: by Alan Weissberger.
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