Date/Subject/Speaker/Abstract

Date: Wed. Dec. 10, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Title:Personal Residential TV Delivery

Date: Wed. Nov. 5, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Event:Broadband Wireless Workshop

Date: Wed. Oct. 8, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Title:Wireless Backhaul Trends: The future role of wireless, fiber optics, and copper wire

Biography:Dr. Jonathan Wells is Founder and Principal Partner at AJIS LLC, an independent consultancy advising clients on microwave and millimeter-wave wireless product development, commercialization and marketing. Prior to founding AJIS, Jonathan was Director of Product Management for GigaBeam, where he had responsibility for product management, technical marketing and worldwide regulatory affairs for the company's novel mm-wave wireless technology. Before this, he led all RF and microwave product development at Stratex Networks, a leader in microwave backhaul, and ran the Wideband Product Division for Adaptive Broadband, an early adopter of unlicensed wireless access products. Jonathan has a PhD in millimeter-wave electronics and an MBA with specialization in strategic R&D management. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Chartered Engineer in Europe and has over 30 published papers. He has presented extensively on every continent of the world.

Date: Wed. Sept 10, 2008, 6:30 - 8:30PM

Title:Location Based Services: From Promise to Reality

Biography:Ravi Jain is currently with Google, Mountain View , California , as a manager for mobile engineering efforts in mobile advertising, location based services, and syndicated mobile search. From 2002 to 2005 he was Vice President and Director of the Network Services and Security Lab in DoCoMo USA Labs. At DoCoMo he led the US team designing DoCoMo's 4th generation (4G) core network in three key areas: mobility management, QoS and security. From 1992 to 2002 he was in Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) working on mobile wireless architectures, algorithms, protocols and middleware, as well as open programmable networks. Prior to that he worked for several years on systems and communications software development, performance modeling, and parallel programming. Ravi received the Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, and has numerous publications and patents in the wireless area. Ravi is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, ACM, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Date: Thurs. June 19, 2008, 7:00 - 9:00PM

Title:Location-Based Technologies and Services Workshop

Meeting Summary: by Alan Weissberger.

Date: Wed. June 11, 2008, 6:00 - 8:50PM

Title:Mobile TV/Video Workshop

Sponsors:IEEE ComSoC SCV and NATEA

Date: Wed. May 14, 2008, 6:00 - 8:00PM

Title:Extending the concept of Femtocells to the outdoor enterprise

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.

Date: Wed. April. 9, 2008, 6:00 - 8:40PM

Title:Fourth generation (4G) mobile smartphone architecture targeted for China and US markets

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.

Date: Wed. March. 12, 2008, 6:00 - 8:40PM

Title:Next Generation Wireless Broadband Workshop

Sponsors:IEEE ComSoC SCV and NATEA

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.

Date: 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.