TC-14 announces a January European workshop.

The 8th European Workshop of the Systems Packaging Committee will be held this year in Cork, Ireland, January 20 - 23rd at the Blarney Park Hotel.

Erich Klink of IBM Germany and Christine Kallmayer of Fraunhofer IZM Germany will be the Program Co-chairs. Cian O'Mathuna of NMRC will be the General Chair.

There will be six or seven technical sessions, and the chairs have been appointed.

Here is the preliminary information:

Keynote Speech: "Is the Future Computing Technology Bioelectric"?

Jan A. Johansson, Ericsson, Director of Future Technology Exploration (Tentative)

Session 1. Thinned-chip Multichip Technology

Chairs: Thomas Harder, Fraunhofer ISIT; Karl Heinz Bock, Fraunhofer IZM and Mike Warner, Tessera

Session 2. Photonics Technology

Chairs: Dick Otte, Promex Industrial and Hermann Opperman, Fraunhofer IZM

Session 3. Military, Automotive and Aerospace

Chairs: Martini Opperman, Daimler Benz and Peter Frisk, Kitron (Tentative)

Session 4. Research Institutes (Invited Session): Presentations of the Work at IMEGO and NMRC,.

Chairs: Bill Brox, IMEGO and Cian O'Mathuna, NMRC

Session 5. Developments in Cellular Technology

Chairs: Paul Collander, NOKIA and Thomas Widegrin, Ericsson
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Session 6. Enterprise Server Technology Advances

Chair: Erich Klink, IBM Germany

Session 7. MEMs Technology in Europe

Chairs: Erik Jung, Fraunhofer IZM and Dr. Kieran Delaney

Workshop fees (with hotel and meals) should be in the mid i300s (Irish Pounds?).

The final program will be posted on the web page in late November and it will printed in the December 2002 issue of the CPMT Newsletter. If you plan to attend, now is the time to mark this workshop on your calendar.

See the TC-14 Systems Packaging web page in November for registration information.

CPMT Technical Committee on Systems Packaging
TC-14 Home: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc14/

submitted by Evan Davidson, IBM