Keynote and Plenary Panel Speakers
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be held in the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts)
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Leonard
Kleinrock is known as the Inventor of the Internet Technology, having
created the basic principles of packet switching, the technology underpinning
the Internet, while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology. This was a decade before the birth of the Internet which
occurred when his Host computer at UCLA became the first node of the Internet
in September 1969. He wrote the first paper and published the first book
on the subject; he also directed the transmission of the first message
ever to pass over the Internet. Kleinrock
received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963
and has served as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of
California, Los Angeles since then. He received his Bachelors degree
in Electrical Engineering from City College, New York, NY (CCNY) in 1957
(also an Honorary Doctor of Science from CCNY in 1997, and an Honorary
Doctor of Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2000).
He was first President and Co-founder of Linkabit. He is also Founder
and Chairman of Nomadix, Inc., a high-tech firm located in Southern California.
Kleinrock is also Founder and Chairman of TTI/Vanguard, an advanced technology
forum organization based in Santa Monica, California. He has published
more than 225 papers and authored six books on a wide array of subjects
including packet switching networks, packet radio networks, local area
networks, broadband networks and gigabit networks. Additionally, Kleinrock
has recently launched the field of nomadic computing, the emerging technology
to support users as soon as they leave their desktop environments; nomadic
computing may well be the next major wave of the Internet. Kleinrock
is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE fellow, an
ACM fellow and a founding member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board of the National Research Council. Among his many honors, he is the
recipient of the CCNY Townsend Harris Medal, the CCNY Electrical Engineering
Award, the Marconi Award, the L.M. Ericsson Prize, the NAE Charles Stark
Draper Prize, the Okawa Prize, the IEEE Internet Millennium Award, the
UCLA Outstanding Teacher Award, the Lanchester Prize, the ACM SIGCOMM
Award, the Sigma Xi Monie Ferst Award, the INFORMS Presidents Award, and
the IEEE Harry Goode Award. More information is available at http://www.lk.cs.ucla.edu..
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As we all know, the telecom industry has been going through perhaps its biggest crisis ever. It is affecting every region and every segment of the industry. Blames and excuses are many including mismanagement, short-term interest, and short-sighted visions, etc. It has been more than two years now, and yet, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. Looking at the past is only useful to draw lessons. We need to focus on the future. We need new visions and ideas to get us through these bad times. This plenary panel of international leaders from various segments and regions will discuss their visions of overcoming the challenges facing the global telecom industry. Executives representing service providers, suppliers, and academia from North America, Europe and Asia will share their views and answer your questions. The panel will be chaired by the world renown expert and author Robert W. Lucky, Vice President of Research at Telcordia Technologies. Robert W. Lucky was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., and attended Purdue University, where he received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1957, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1959 and 1961. After graduation he joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ, where he was initially involved in studying ways of sending digital information over telephone lines. The best known outcome of this work was his invention of the adaptive equalizer - a technique for correcting distortion in telephone signals which is used in all high speed data transmission today. The textbook on data communications which he co-authored became the most cited reference in the communications field over the period of a decade. At Bell Labs he moved through a number of levels to become Executive Director of the Communications Sciences Research Division in 1982, where he was responsible for research on the methods and technologies for future communication systems. In 1992 he left Bell Labs to assume his present position at Telcordia Technologies. He has been active in professional activities, and has served as President of the Communications Society of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), and as Vice President and Executive Vice President of the parent IEEE itself. He has been editor of several technical journals, including the Proceedings of the IEEE, and since 1982 he has written the bimonthly "Reflections" column of personalized observations about the engineering profession in Spectrum magazine. In 1993 these "Reflections" columns were collected in the IEEE Press book Lucky Strikes... Again. Lucky is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also a consulting editor for a series of books on communications through Plenum Press. He has been on the advisory boards or committees of many universities and government organizations, and was Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the United States Air Force from 1986-1989. He was the 1987 recipient of the prestigious Marconi Prize for his contributions to data communications, and has been awarded honorary doctorates from four universities. He has also been awarded the Edison Medal of the IEEE and the Exceptional Civilian Contributions Medal of the U.S. Air Force. Lucky is a frequent speaker before both scientific and general audiences. He has been an invited lecturer at about one hundred different universities, and has been the guest on a number of network television shows, including Bill Moyers' "A World of Ideas," where he has discussed the impacts of future technological advances. He is the author of the book Silicon Dreams, which is a semi-technical and philosophical discussion of the ways in which both humans and computers deal with information. |
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Bruce Yeager is a former Senior Vice President and Co-Head of Credit Lyonnais Global Media and Communications Group, with specific responsibility for the Americas. The Media and Communications Group was responsible for overseeing all of Credit Lyonnais banking (investment and commercial) activity within the media and communications industries. Yeager received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of the South and an MBA from Tulane University. A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Yeager joined Credit Lyonnais in 1982 and founded the Media & Communications Group in 1988 (as a compliment to the Banks similar focus in Europe.) During his tenure the Media & Communications Group in the Americas exceeded $3.0 billion. Yeager acted as lead agent for several billion dollars of credit facilities to companies such as Liberty Media, Charter Communications, Discovery Communications, Cingular Wireless and General Communication, Inc. (GCI.) Yeager is currently a financial consultant. |
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