Kickoff Meeting Details
When?
Monday, September 21, 2009, beginning at 6:00 PM
Where?
Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA
Packard Laboratory
Refreshments in third-floor lobby
Meeting and lecture upstairs in room 466
Who is invited?
Basically anybody who's interested may attend as long as they RSVP, but specific invitations will be extended to:
- IEEE/LVS members (not just SSCS)
- IEEE/LVS student branch members
- Lehigh University. William Haller, faculty advisor
- Lafayette College
- Wilkes University
- University of Scranton
- Penn State Wilkes Barre
- Lehigh University Professors and Students
- IEEE/SSCS of neighboring sections
- Local industry engineers and managers, IEEE members or not
Program
6:00 PM Social Hour in third floor lobby. RSVP
is strictly required to partake of Pizza, Soft Drinks, Cookies.
7:00 PM Announcements and short formal meeting
followed by address by distinguished lecturer, Prof. Tom Lee of
Stanford University
Topic
Wireless Technology: Past, Present and Future
Abstract
We live in an era of instant, global
communications. Over three million cellular handsets are sold each day -- a
billion a year -- and the growth continues as populous nations such as China
and India eagerly adopt wireless technologies. This remarkable progress has
taken place with breathtaking speed. Marconi's station-to-station spark
telegraphy was high-tech scarcely a century ago; station-to-people broadcasting
caught fire in the 1920s and '30s; and today's people-to-people cellular has
been a Big Deal for only a couple of decades. This talk will review the
technologies that enabled -- and were created by -- those three ages of
wireless. The talk will conclude with some wild speculations about what could
possibly follow those three acts, given that history has already covered all
possible permutations of stations and people.
Speaker Information
Thomas H. Lee received the
S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983,
1985, and 1990, respectively.
He joined Analog Devices
in 1990 where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock
recovery devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc.
in Mountain View, CA where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500
megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs.
He has also contributed to the development
of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994,
he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where
his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated
circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS.
He has twice received the "Best
Paper" award at the International Solid-State
Circuits Conference, co-authored a "Best Student Paper" at
ISSCC, was awarded the Best Paper prize at CICC, and is a Packard Foundation
Fellowship recipient.
He is an IEEE
Distinguished Lecturer of the Solid-State Circuits Society, and has been a DL
of the IEEE Microwave Society as well. He holds 43 U.S. patents and authored The Design of CMOS
Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (now in its second edition), and Planar
Microwave Engineering, both with Cambridge University Press. He is a
co-author of four additional books on RF circuit design, and also cofounded
Matrix Semiconductor (acquired by Sandisk in 2006). He is the founder of ZeroG
Wireless.
Tom Lee's book:
The Design of
CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition by Thomas
H. Lee (Hardcover - Dec 22, 2003)
