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The Symposium will feature two panels of industry
experts and excutives on Tuesday, 28 March 2006. Following
a long-standing tradition at the Symposium one panel will address a hot
topic in the commercial wireless business. The
second panel will discuss military communication technology
issues.
Executive Panel I: Commercial Wireless Industry
"Wireless Communications - Progress,
Challenges, and Issues"
11:00am-12:40pm, Senior Room
Moderator: Eric J. Addeo, Professor, DeVry University
Panelists:
Joseph Bianco, Principal
Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Stephen Ehrmann, Assistant Director of Technology,
New Jersey Turnpike Authority
Jeffrey J. Farah, Director – Asset Analysis,
Technology Analysis, and Competitive Intelligence, AT&T Knowledge
Ventures
Alexander D. Gelman, Chief Scientist at the
Panasonic Digital Networking Laboratory
Paul S. Henry, Member of the Access Technology
& Applications Research Division at AT&T Labs
Mehmet Ulema, Professor, Manhattan College
Executive Panel II: Military Communications
Leveraging Military Communications
Technology
11:00am-12:40pm, Nassau A&B
Moderator: Matthew Zieniewicz, US Army CERDEC
Panelists:
LTC. Kenneth Copeland, Military Deputy Director,
Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate, US Army RDECOM CERDEC
Stephen Goodall, P. E., Tactical Network and Communication Antennas Advanced Technology
Obective Manager, Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate, US Army RDECOM CERDEC
Speaker Biographies
Dr. Addeo is a Professor at DeVry University. He has
more than 18 years of experience at the senior management where he has
managed the day-to-day technical and strategic directions of world-class
applied research organizations at Lucent Bell Labs, Telcordia, and most
recently at Panasonic Labs in Princeton.
He is the recipient of NJITs Distinguished Alumni Medal for his impactful
management and leadership of industrial research organizations. He holds
ten patents and has published more than 87 papers and talks at national
and international conferences on emerging wireless technologies and novel
IP-based information networking applications.
Dr. Addeo received the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Award in recognition
of his seminal contributions to cellular communications that lead to the
global deployment of current nomadic cellular communications systems.
He has received the International Teleconferencing Societies highest award
for "The Most Significant Advance in the Field of Teleconferencing" for
his contributions to the synthesis and development of a new Large Screen
Teleconferencing research prototype. This award-winning research prototype
was on display in the Information Age Exhibit of the Smithsonian Institute
in Washington, DC.
He sits on numerous IEEE committees of the Communications Society and
has held offices as VP of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical
Committee. He served as the Vice-Chair of the Technical Program for the
first International IEEE Communications Conference on Home Networking
and Networked Appliances. He has served as editor of the International
Journal on Multimedia Tools and Applications. He was President of the
IEEE Data Communications Committee and has served as the Technical Program
Committee Chair for numerous IEEE sponsored international conferences
on communications. Dr. Addeo earned a Bachelor and Master of Science degrees
in Electrical Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. He
has an earned Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of
Technology. He has completed the Postgraduate program in Computer Science
for Engineers and Research Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Dr. Bianco has been a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems Inc. since 1995. During that time, he has been involved with the implementation of Sun Cluster family of products. Dr. Bianco is the co-author of Sun Cluster 2.2 Environment (2001) and Programming with the Sun Cluster API's (2004) both by Prentice Hall. Dr. Bianco holds B.S. in Electrical Engineering, M.S. and a Ph.D. in Information Systems. Also, Dr. Bianco is currently a 3rd year student in Colorado Executive Development In Residence (CEDIR) program at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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Stephen Ehrmann holds an MSEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and an MBA from New York University. He is an IEEE member and
a registered Professional Engineer. He has worked in the Information Technology
field for over 35 years holding positions such as Manager, Director, and
Vice President of Information Systems for public and private sector firms.
Currently he is the Assistant Director of Technology for the New Jersey
Turnpike Authority.
Mr. Ehrmann will be discussing the design and implementation of a wireless
voice and data system for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority's new headquarters
building in Woodbridge, NJ.
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Jeff Farah began his career with AT&T in 1987, as a
Member of Technical Staff in then Bell Laboratories. Initially he was
project leader for the system and network integration and test of AT&T
facility switch equipment, fiber transmission systems, and OSS's, resulting
in a modernization of AT&T's facility switching and transmission infrastructure.
In 1990 Jeff was awarded the Doctor Support Program and in 1995 received
a Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, focused on Discrete Event
Dynamic Systems as Applied to Intelligent Machines. Subsequently Jeff
has worked on projects ranging from advanced OSS's to Speech Recognition
Systems to Advanced Speech Enabled VoIP Architectures leveraging both
IP and Wireless Communications Infrastructures. In 2001 Jeff joined the
AT&T Intellectual Property Management and Licensing Organization, now
AT&T Knowledge Ventures, and leads the Asset Analysis, Technology Analysis
and Competitive Intelligence Team with responsibility for management,
mining, and leveraging support (assertion, counter-assertion, and carrot)
of AT&T's Intellectual Property.
Jeff holds eleven US patents, six international patents and has numerous
others pending, covering diverse services and designs in Wireless Communications,
Broadband Communications Services and Infrastructure, Narrowband Communications
Services and Infrastructures, Intelligent Network Error Recovery, Distributed
Computation Optimization, Network Security, Machine Intelligence, and
Services Infrastructures/Architectures.
Jeff's Baccalaureate and Master's degrees in electrical engineering are
from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. When not
at AT&T, Jeff is Professor of Communications and Information Systems at
DeVry University.
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Alexander D. Gelman holds ME and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from the City University of New York. Since 1998 Alex is the Chief Scientist at Panasonic Digital Networking Laboratory in Princeton, NJ and San Jose, California managing projects in consumer communications and networking. During 1984-1998 Alex was with Bellcore, lately as Director, Residential Internet Access Architectures Research. Some of most prominent projects in Bellcore were related to multimedia communications and DSL applications. In 1989 Alex pioneered the concept and the architecture of the Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexor (DSLAM). Alex consulted Bell Atlantic on early ADSL trial, architected Telia's DSL Multimedia, VOD, and Internet Access trial. Alex holds some of the earliest DSL system patents, e.g. on xDSL-based Access Router. He has published in journals, conference proceedings and magazines, served as editor of magazines and journals, served on the Inaugural Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, served on Organizing and program committees of several ComSoc conferences, initiated the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). Alex is a past Chair of the ComSoc Multimedia Technical Committee, served as ComSoc VP-Society Relations and VP-Membership Development. Presently Alex is ComSoc Director of Standards and serves on BoG of the IEEE Standards Association.
Presentation Abstract: Real time communications
in Voice and Video, Mobile Entertainment, Instant Messaging and Personal
Content Sharing constitute a "killer" set of applications desired by consumers.
In the meantime opportunistic wireless access possibilities grow by day.
Fixed and mobile hot spots are becoming commonplace in locations ranging
from cafés to airplanes.
Computer users enjoy opportunistic wireless access and a wide variety
of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) applications. And this P2P frenzy generates about
2/3 of the entire Internet traffic. Consumers are "entitled" to the same
networking "privileges" as computer users, who, by the way, constitute
only about 14% of human population.
Consumer grade networking applications can be satisfied for a significant
part by P2P mechanisms. VoIP becomes more enterprise-oriented service,
while Voice over P2P (VoP2P) emerges as consumer grade application. This
reality has to be taken into considerations when designing and planning
future carrier services and business models
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Paul S. Henry is a Fellow of the IEEE and Member of the Access Technology & Applications Research Division at AT&T Labs, where his interests focus on bringing high-speed Internet connectivity to homes and businesses. After receiving his Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University, Mr. Henry joined AT&T (Bell) Laboratories, where he has been engaged in research on communications circuits and systems as well as radio astronomy instrumentation. He served as a Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, a Guest Editor for the Journal of Lightwave Technology and has published papers or patented inventions in several fields, including millimeter-wave radio techniques, cosmology, optical fiber and powerline communications, wireless systems and data security. Dr. Henry's current research emphasis is on broadband wireless access technology.
Presentation Abstract: After several false starts, wireless technology has at last become practical for economical, widely deployable broadband access. While WiMAX, the emerging leader in this arena, is rich in state-of-the-art technologies, substantial research challenges remain before its full promise can be realized. In this presentation I will briefly describe some key problems and outline promising approaches to their solution.
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Dr. Ulema has more than 25 years experience as a professor, director, project manager, researcher, systems engineer, network architect, and software developer. Currently he is a professor at the Computer Information Systems Department at Manhattan College, New York. Previously, he held management and technical positions in Daewoo Telecom, Bellcore, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Hazeltine Corporations. Dr. Ulema has been involved in a variety of wireless projects including 3G wireless networks, wireless LANs, Wireless Local Loops, and management of wireless networks. He has published in various international conferences and journals. He holds two patents. He gave many talks and tutorials on network management of wireless networks. He organized a number of special issues in the management of wireless networks. He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Communications Magazine, the ACM Wireless Network Journal, and the IEEE electronic Transactions on Service and Network Management. He is the co-founder of the IEEE Communications Society's Information Infrastructure Technical Committee. He served as the chairman of the Radio Communications Technical Committee. He is involved in many IEEE conferences. He is currently co-chairing the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) to be held in June 2006. More recently he chaired and co-chaired technical programs of the CCNC 2004, NOMS 2002, and ISCC 2000. He received MS & Ph.D. in Computer Science at Polytechnic University, New York. He also received BS & MS degrees at Technical University of Istanbul, Turkey.
Presentation Abstract: Challenges in managing
ubiquitous wireless networks
1. Wireless Communications Landscape
2. New type of wireless networks
a. Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
b. Wireless Sensor Networks
3. Management Challenges
4. Proposed Management Solutions
5. Future
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Matthew Zieniewicz, P. E. is the Acting Chief of the Information Operations Branch, Software Engineering Directorate, Communications-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC), Fort Monmouth N.J. . Recent assignments included serving as the Acting Chief Information Officer, CERDEC for a nine month period during the executive search process. Mr. Zieniewicz has over 20 years experience in systems engineering, information technology, mobile computing, modeling and simulation and telecommunications. He led an internal team that developed the first Army wearable computer during the early 1990's, spawning the current Land Warrior program. He is completing certification as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He is also completing an Executive Master's in Technology Management from the University of Pennsylvania Moore School, co-sponsored by the Wharton School of Business, with an expected graduation in August 2006. He has both a B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from Fairleigh Dickinson University, developing a manual on SPICE as part of his Master's Honors Research Fellowship. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the national electrical engineering honor society. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the state of New Jersey since 1991.
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Lieutenant Colonel Kenneth D. Copeland
LTC Kenneth Copeland is the Military Deputy for the Space and Terrestrial Communications Directorate (S&TCD) in the Communications & Electronics Research, Development & Engineering Center (CERDEC). As the deputy and principal military advisor to the Army's communications research directorate, his responsibilities include projects ranging from tactical comms for dismounted soldiers in subterranean environments to relay nodes on all types platforms (air/ground/mobile/unmanned) to strategic comms thru satellite systems. His duties involve marketing, coordinating, and funding technology efforts with industry, academia, and other agencies, such as DARPA and other Battle Labs, and transitioning these products for the Warfighters through Program Offices. LTC Copeland received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from the University of Maryland in 1991. In 1997, he received a Master's of Business Administration in the field of International Business from the University of Texas at Arlington. He also performed a Training with Industry assignment at Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth, Texas, working on international commercial contracts.
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