Wireless Communications: The Ride's Been Great and It's Just BeginningDr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, Chairman of the board of directors of QUALCOMM Inc.Download Presentation Slides
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Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs is co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology. Dr. Jacobs served as chief executive officer of the Company until June 2005. Dr. Jacobs has led the commercialization of OmniTRACS, now on over 500,000 trucks, and of CDMA, the world's fastest-growing, most-advanced voice and data wireless communications technology. Dr. Jacobs holds 13 CDMA patents, contributing to QUALCOMM's extensive portfolio of issued U.S. and foreign patent and pending applications.
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The Information Theoretic Roots of Digital CommuncationRobert G. Gallager, Professor emeritus, M.I.T.Download Presentation Slides
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Robert G. Gallager received the B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, and the S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1957 and 1960, respectively. He has been a faculty member at MIT since 1960 where he was Co-Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems from 1986 to 1998, was named Fujitsu Professor in 1988, and became Professor Emeritus in 2001. His 1960 Sc.D. thesis, Low Density Parity Check Codes, was published by the M.I.T. Press as a monograph in 1963 and was republished in the 1974 IEEE Press volume, Key Papers in The Development of Information Theory. This paper won an IEEE Information Theory Society Golden-Jubilee Paper Award in 1998 and its subject matter is a very active area of research today. Gallager's January 1965 paper in the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, "A Simple Derivation of the Coding Theorem and some Applications``won the 1966 IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize and also won another IEEE IT Society Golden-Jubilee Paper Award in 1998. His book, Information Theory and Reliable Communication, Wiley 1968, is still considered by many as the standard textbook on information theory.In the mid 1970's, Gallager's research focus shifted to data networks and his book Data Networks, Prentice Hall, 1988, second edition 1992, co-authored with D. Bertsekas, helped provide a conceptual foundation for this field. His June 1993 joint paper with A. K. Parekh, "A Generalized Processor Sharing Approach to Flow Control in ISN` won the IEEE Communication Society's William Bennett Prize Paper Award, and a preliminary version won the Prize Paper Award for Infocomm 1993. In the 1990's, Gallager's interests shifted back to information theory and to stochastic processes. He wrote the 1996 textbook, Discrete Stochastic Processes, Kluwer. Gallager's current interests are in information theory, wireless communication, all optical networks, data networks, and stochastic processes.Gallager has always been particularly proud of the many graduate students whose research he has supervised, many of whom are now themselves leading researchers in their fields. He has received the MIT Graduate Student Council Teaching A ward for 1993. He is currently working on a textbook in Digital Communications.Gallager was instrumental in the founding of Codex Corporation in 1962 (now part of Motorola) and served Codex as Acting Vice President for Research in 1971-1972. He has been granted five patents on his inventions, Gallager was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1971, a member of its Board of Governors from 1965 to 1972 and again from 1979 to 1988. He was Chairman of the Advisory committee to the NSF Division on Networking and Communication Research and Infrastructure from 1989 to 1992, and has been on numerous visiting committees for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. In addition to the above paper awards, Dr Gallager has been awarded numerous major national and international honors, including:
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Completing the convergence puzzle: Media Independent HandoverBrian G. KiernanChief Strategic Standards Officer
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Mr. Kiernan is directly responsible for InterDigital’s worldwide industry Standards activities and assists in the development of new market, technology and product initiatives. In this capacity, he provides strategic technical and marketing support to InterDigital’s sales, marketing, technology and business development efforts as well as the company’s worldwide patent and licensing programs.Previously, Mr. Kiernan was President of USTC World Trade Corporation, an international sales and marketing subsidiary of InterDigital’s predecessor company, International Mobile Machines (IMM). Having full profit and loss accountability for IMM’s international business, he quadrupled international revenues in two years. He opened new markets, primarily in Asia and Latin America that accounted for over 90% of InterDigital’s past product revenue.Prior to his sales position, Mr. Kiernan was IMM’s Vice President of Engineering and Operations. His product line responsibilities covered all areas of development and sales engineering, manufacturing, product support and quality assurance of IMM’s UltraPhone® TDMA Wireless Local Loop product.
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Location Awareness and Positioning Methods for Location Based Services in Wireless Communication NetworksDr Gilles Y. Delisle, ing., P.Eng.
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Gilles-Y. Delisle is Vice-President Research at the International Institute of Telecommunications in Montréal, Canada since July 2004. Previously, he was Director and Professor at the School of Information Technology and Engineering at the University of Ottawa from 2002 to 2004 and he has been a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Laval University, Québec, Canada, since 1973, where he was head of the department from 1977 to 1983. From June 1992 to June 1997, he was also Director of INRS-Telecommunications, a research institute which is a part of the Université du Québec. He is involved in research work in intelligent antenna array, radar cross-section measurements and analytical predictions, mobile radio-.channel propagation modeling, personal communications and industrial realization of telecommunications equipment.Dr. Delisle is a member of the Order of Engineers of the Province of Québec and Professional engineers of Ontario, Past-President of the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Past Canadian President of URSI, Past President of ACFAS, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Canadian Engineering Institute, the Canadian Academy of Engineering and of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET-UK). In 1986, he was awarded the J. Armand Bombardier prize of ACFAS for outstanding technical innovation and his work in technology transfer has been recognized by a Canada Award of Excellence in 1987.The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers has recognized its contribution to the profession by awarding him the prestigious ‘’Meritorious Service Award for Professional Service‘’ in 2004 .Dr Delisle has supervised the work of over a hundred graduate and post-graduate students over the last 30 years. |
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Thinking Beyond The Pipe: Business Opportunities in a Broadband World Mark Henderson
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Mark Henderson brings over 26 years telecommunications experience to his current position at Ericsson, 23 of which have been within the wireless industry.Mr. Henderson was promoted to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer of Ericsson Canada in May 2001. He joined Ericsson in 1989 to oversee the launch of the Mobile Data (Mobitex) business in Canada and has held increasingly senior roles within the company. Prior to taking on his current position, Mr. Henderson was Chief Operating Officer of Ericsson Canada.Mr. Henderson has also spent several years at corporate Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden having responsibility for a major GSM network release for Europe and North America.Prior to joining Ericsson, Mr. Henderson held senior positions within the Telecommunications Industry, and has experience in a number of international markets including Asia, Central America and the Middle East. His educational background is in Electrical Engineering and Executive MBA programs.
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