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May 22, 2008
" 802.11n and Outdoor Mesh Wi-Fi: Market and Standards Update " Dr. Malik Audeh, Sr. RF Systems Engineer, Tropos Networks
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April 19, 2008
" An overview of IT Security Forensics " Dr. Manu Malek, Industry Professor of Telecommunications Management at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
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March 13, 2008
" Cyber Security in Electrical Power Stations " Joe Weiss, PE, CISM, Applied Control Solutions, LLC
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October 25, 2007
" Software-Defined Radio " presented by Dr. Mark Cummings, CEO and founder of enVia I and Prof. Todor Cooklev, San Francisco State University
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September 27, 2007
" Trends in Substation Automation " presented by Mr. John McDonald, P.E., Vice President, Automation for Power System Automation for KEMA, Inc.
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July 21, 2007
" Trends in the Telecommunications Industry " presented by Ms. Celia Desmond, World Class - Telecommunications
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May 17, 2007
" Supercharged, High Performing, Project Teams in Telecom! " presented by Doug Bedinger, P.E., BSME, MHROD, Teambuilding and Organization Development Consultant
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April 18, 2007 (Conclusion of March 24 seminar)
" Technical Overview of the IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 Wireless Standards: The Standards behind WiFi and WiMAX " presented by Mr. Subbu Ponnuswamy, Aruba Networks
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March 24, 2007 A half-day seminar
" Technical Overview of the IEEE 802.11 and 802.16 Wireless Standards: The Standards behind WiFi and WiMAX " presented by Mr. Subbu Ponnuswamy, Aruba Networks
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February 15, 2007
" Location Platforms and Dynamic Mobile Applications " presented by Dr. Scott Hotes, CTO, WaveMarket
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October 19, 2006
" Application of Time-Reversal Methods to Communication in Hostile Environments " presented by Dr. David H. Chambers, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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September 21, 2006
" Architectures for Emerging Communications Processing Systems " presented by Dr. Dilip Krishnaswamy, Platform Architect, Intel Corporation
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July 20, 2006
" The ZigBee Alliance " presented by Deepak Kamlani, Zigbee Alliance
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June 15, 2006
" Delivering Mobile Applications over Multi-mode Devices " presented by Krishna Yarlagadda Founder, President & CEO, HelloSoft, Inc.
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May 18, 2006
" Wireless Communication - The next logical step in vehicle safety " presented by Dr. Wieland Holfelder, VP & CTO, DaimlerChrysler Research & Technology, North America
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April 20, 2006
" Visions from a Global Carrier’s "Crystal Ball" " presented by Dr. Stanley Chia, Senior Director, Vodafone Group, R&D-US
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March 16, 2006
" MICO - an Open Source CORBA Implementation " presented by Dr. Arno Puder, San Francisco State University
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February 16, 2006
" Wireless Sensor and Control Networks " presented by Rick Enns, Vice President of Standards and Technology, Dust Networks.
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December 8, 2005
" Trusted Computing and Applications to Communications " presented by Dr. Thomas Hardjono, CTO of SignaCert.
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November 12, 2005
" An introduction to Broadband Powerline (BPL) Technology " presented by Chano Gomez, VP, Technology and Strategic Partnerships, DS2.
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October 20, 2005
" Cable Technologies: DOCSIS, PacketCable and CableHome " presented by Craig Owens, Product Development Manager for Gateways at Netgear.
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July 19, 2005
" IEEE 802.16 Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks " presented by Roger B. Marks, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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June 16, 2005
" IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Architecture: New Protocols and New Deployment Strategies " presented by Matthew Gast, Director of Consulting Engineering at Trapeze.
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May 19, 2005
" Network Visibility @ Wire-Speed for Visibility, Security and Capacity Planning " presented by Gopala Tumuluri, Product Line Manager for Multi-Layer Switching at Foundry Networks.
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April 21, 2005
" Evolution of Mobile Wireless Technologies to Year 2008 " presented by Dr. Stanley Chia, Senior Director, Vodafone Group R&D-US.
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March 17, 2005
" Trends and Innovations in RF Identification " presented by Jim Wright, Senior Staff Engineer in Sun Microsystems.
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February 17, 2005
" Electomagnetic Interference Shielding for New Communications Products " presented by Dr. Rocky Arnold, CEO and Co-founder of WaveZero.
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November 11, 2004
" Broadband Access Futures: Where SBC Is Going " presented by Dr. Ralph Ballart, Vice President, Broadband Infrastructure and Services, SBC Laboratories, Inc. (Note: Company policy prohibited the speaker from releasing the presentation given that evening. Rather, the speaker referred the audience to the slides at https://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/irol/11/113088/111104_color.pdf . Those slides are reposted here for convenience.)
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October 28, 2004
" Trends and Innovations in Wireless Technologies & Services " presented by Javan Erfanian, Senior Associate Director - Technology Research & Strategy, Bell Mobility
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September 23, 2004
" Real-World Experience with a Mobile Broadband Network " presented by Dr. Jin Yang, Sr. Member of Technical Staff, Verizon Wireless
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June 17, 2004
" IEEE 802.11n: Multi-Antenna Techniques for High Throughput Wireless LANs" presented by Dr. Sumeet Sandhu, Senior Staff Researcher, Intel
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May 20, 2004
" Signal Processing for Packet Voice Telephony" presented by Dr. Krishna Vemireddy, DSP Solutions Architect, LSI Logic
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April 15, 2004
" City-Wide Wi-Fi Mesh" presented by Dr. Malik Audeh, Senior RF Systems Engineer, Tropos Networks
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March 18, 2004
" Mobile Phone Firmware Update On-the-Fly" presented by Bill Kaminsky, Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco
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March 13, 2004
"Understanding Networking - Everything you always wanted to know (but were afraid to ask)", a half-day workshop presented by a panel of three industry experts focussed on the following topics:

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February 19, 2004
"How are Credit Card Numbers Hacked on the Web?" presented by Jan Bialkowski, Chief Technology Office and Founder, NetContinuum, Inc.
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January 15, 2004
"Scaling IP, Web Applications and Server Farms with layer 4-7 Load Balancing Switches" presented by Gopala Tumuluri, Foundry Networks
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December 6, 2003
"Signals and DSPs Everywhere " presented by John Zarrella, Impressima Inc. A half-day seminar.
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November 20, 2003
"Technology and Architecture Trends in Optical Networking" presented by Dr. Nim K. Cheung, Telcordia Technologies
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October 16, 2003
No presentation was given

September 18, 2003
"Using CMOS for Ultra Wideband and 60 GHz Communications" presented by Professor Robert W. Brodersen, Berkeley Wireless Research Center - University of California, Berkeley
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August 21, 2003
"Managing IT Assets Across Enterprise Networks " presented by Shiv R. Kathpalia, Director of Engineering at LSVI
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July 24, 2003
"Broadband Wireless Access via IEEE 802.16 - The Next Frontier " presented by Dr. Roger Marks of NIST, Chairman of IEEE 802.16.
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June 19, 2003
"Web Conferencing " presented by Bhaskar Roy of PlaceWare.
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May 15, 2003
"Why did you drag that Ethernet cable onto the street?" presented by Mike Coop of Cranite Systems.
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April 17, 2003
"Voice Processing Standards" presented by Mukesh Sundaram of Alcatel Genesys Lab.
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March 20, 2003
"Intrusion: Detection and Prevention" presented by Vimal Solanki of Intruvert Networks.
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February 20, 2003
"Gigabit Ethernet - LAN, MAN, SAN and WAN applications" presented by Andy Moorwood and Nitin Bhandari of Extreme Networks.
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January 16, 2003
"VDSL at a Glance: Technology and Applications" presented by Dr. Fernando Ramirez-Mireles of Ikanos Communications.
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December 7, 2002
"Wireless Communications Everywhere - Opportunities and Pitfalls", a half-day seminar presented by a panel of four industry experts focussed on the following topics:

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November 14, 2002
" Is OFDM the Answer to High-speed Wireless LANs?" was presented by Gerald Sage. Mr. Sage is an independent consultant in the fields of communications and navigation.
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October 17, 2002
" Ethernet in the First Mile" (EFM)was presented by Craig Easley and Howard Frazier. Craig is the President of the EFM Alliance.  Howard chairs the IEEE 802.3ah Ethernet in the First Mile Task Force and is a co-inventors of Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
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September 19, 2002
" Ultra-wideband (UWB) Technology for Communication Applications" was presented by Dr. Roberto Aiello, founder and CEO of Discrete Time Communications.
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August 15, 2002
" Over-The-Air (OTA) Embedded Software Management for Mobile Phones" was presented by Michael Liu, Vice President of Engineering at DoOnGo Technologies.
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July 18, 2002
" Intrusion Detection using Artificial Neural Networks (ANN)" was presented by Mr. Vu Dao, a computer scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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June 20, 2002
" The Market and Directions of VoIP" was presented by Mr. Phil Edholm, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Network Architecture for Nortel Networks Optical Ethernet and Enterprise Product Portfolio business units.
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June 15, 2002
"Programming Languages for Engineering and Network Professionals", a seminar presented by Mr. John Zarrella, president of Impressima, Inc. A half-day seminar.
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May 16, 2002
" Today's Access Network: Reality and an Ambitious Future" was presented by Mr. Sunil Tomar, an Angel Investor and mentor for high tech start-ups.
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April 18, 2002
" Embedded Wireless Connections - FCC Module Approach" was presented by Mr. Jeffrey Schiffer, Manager of Wireless Research at Intel Labs.
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March 21, 2002
" Home Networking - Here and Now" was presented by Mr. Pasquale Romano, VP Engineering, 2Wire.
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February 28, 2002
" Fixed Broadband Wireless Access: Non-Line-of-Sight Systems" was presented by Dr. Krishnamoorthy, VP/CTO IOspan Wireless.
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December 6, 2001
" 802.11a Wireless Networks: Principles and Performance" was presented by Dr. Jeffrey M. Gilbert of Atheros Communications.
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