Confirmed speakers include: May 14, 2004 Michael D. Gallagher Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration John Muleta Chief of the Wireless Telecommunications Bureau Federal Communications Commission Chris Rice Executive Vice President and CTO SBC Communications Inc. Richard J. Lynch Executive Vice President - Chief Technical Officer Verizon Wireless Robert Kellison Supervisory Special Agent - Cyber Branch Federal Bureau of Investigation Dr. Michael Zastrocky Vice President and Research Director Gartner   May 15, 2004 Panel Discussion: Future Directions in Wireless Research Moderator: Dr. Keith Chugg Co-Director - Communication Sciences Institute University of Southern California Dr. George Rittenhouse Vice President - Wireless Research Lucent Technologies - Bell Laboratories Dr. Gang Wu Senior Vice President and Executive Director NTT DoCoMo Labs (USA) Ilkka Niva Director, Systems Research and Standardization Nokia Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian Research Staff Member IBM Research Dr. Jeyhan Karaoguz Senior Principal Scientist, Office of the CTO Broadcom Corporation Wireless Network Security Tutorial: Dr. James Smith Computer Scientist - Cyber Branch Federal Bureau of Investigation Michael D. Gallagher was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 14, 2003 to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information and Administrator of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the Executive Branch agency which is the President's principal adviser on telecommunications and information policy issues. In addition to representing the Executive Branch in both domestic and international telecommunications and information policy activities, the NTIA manages the Federal use of the spectrum; administers infrastructure grants to support the development of a national information infrastructure accessible to all Americans; manages public telecommunications facilities grants designed to maintain and extend the public broadcasting infrastructure; and performs cutting-edge telecommunications research and engineering, including resolving technical telecommunications issues for the Federal government and private sector. Mr. Gallagher serves as the Acting Assistant Secretary and NTIA's Acting Administrator pending Senate action on the nomination. John Muleta is Chief of the Federal Communications Commission's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB), which handles all FCC domestic wireless telecommunications programs and policies-- except those involving satellite communications or broadcasting-- including licensing, enforcement, and regulatory functions. Wireless communications services include cellular telephone, paging, personal communications services, public safety, and other commercial and private radio services. The Bureau is also responsible for implementing the FCC's statutory authority to assign spectrum licenses by competitive bidding. FCC Chairman Michael K. Powell appointed Mr. Muleta to this position in January 2003. Christopher T. Rice is Executive Vice President – Services; Chief Technology Officer at SBC Communications Inc. As executive vice president-services and Chief Technology Officer, Chris Rice oversees Network Planning and Engineering, SBC Laboratories, Inc. and Procurement. His responsibilities also include overseeing the development and deployment of advanced access, switching, and routing technologies for the company. Prior to being appointed to his current position in March 2004, he served as senior vice president-network planning and engineering. In that position he was responsible for SBC enterprise-wide technology direction, new technology introduction, platform development, network engineering, network planning, and network regulation. Richard Lynch, Executive Vice President and Chief Technical Officer, Verizon Wireless, the largest wireless carrier in the U.S. is responsible for the performance of the company's coast-to-coast multibillion-dollar wireless voice and data network covering more than two million square-miles. Under his leadership, Verizon Wireless launched Express Network -- the fastest national 3G high-speed wireless network delivering dial-up speeds in mobile environments. Dr. George Rittenhouse is Vice President of Wireless Research, Bell Laboratories. Dr. Rittenhouse heads several projects, including MIMO system development, network optimization, wireless IP networks, and fourth generation wireless. In 2001 he received the Bell Labs Fellow award. Dr. Rittenhouse is active on several national policy and standards boards, working with FCC and Homeland Security subgroups on the scientific side of wireless in the post 9/11 era. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of wireless systems and circuits. Dr. Michael Zastrocky is a vice president and research director at Gartner Research, where he specializes in higher education, including distributed learning/e-learning, administrative computing issues, academic computing on campus, networking and telecommunications, and strategic planning. He is also a trustee for several higher education institutions. Dr. Gang Wu is a Senior Vice President and Executive Director at NTT DoCoMo Labs (USA), where he has been engaged in the research of hyper operators for next generation wireless networks and 4G mobile communication systems. Prior research at the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, Japan, included involvement in R&D projects related to broadband mobile communication systems in the microwave band, ultra-high-speed wireless LANs in the millimeter-wave band, broadband wireless access systems using stratospheric platforms, and MIRAI for seamless integration of heterogeneous wireless networks. Dr. Wu has been heavily involved in IEEE 802 standardization activities and is serving as a Procedural Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.20 Working Group for Mobile Broadband Wireless Access systems. He has been active as an IEEE conference organizer and is an Editor of the Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) and a Guest Editor of the IEICE Transactions on Communications. He has authored over 80 reviewed publications. Ilkka Niva is a Research and Standards Director at Nokia (San Diego), where he is heading CDMA Standards, 3G and beyond Research, and various programs for next generation wireless Mobility. He is responsible for university relations and is a member of the Board for the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications. In addition, he is coordinating the funding of a multi-million dollar research project. He joined Nokia Mobile Phones in 1988 (Finland) and has experience on the very first GSM, TDMA, IS-95 and WCDMA technologies and related life cycles, 3G roadmapping and strategic technology planning. Dr. Chatschik Bisdikian is a Research Staff Member with IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY. He has worked on the development and analysis of communications protocols for personal, local, and metropolitan area networks; he is currently focusing on pervasive communications and computing. During his career, Dr. Bisdikian has authored over 90 peer-reviewed papers in the above mentioned areas, had 7 patents issued, co-authored the book Bluetooth Revealed (Prentice Hall), and served on several conference program committees. He has served as a Vice-Chair of the IEEE 802.15.1 task group that developed the IEEE personal area networks standard adapted from the Bluetooth wireless technology. Dr. Bisdikian is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to the development, modeling, and analysis of communication protocols and wireless personal area networks. Dr. Jeyhan Karaoguz is a Senior Principal Scientist in the Office of the CTO at Broadcom Corporation, where he is leading the technology development efforts in next generation wireless personal area networks (WPAN). Over the past three years he has made key contributions to the IEEE 802.15.3 High Rate WPAN Standard and served as the assistant editor for the physical layer specification of the standard. Dr. Keith Chugg is an Associate Professor in the EE-Systems Dept. at USC, where he is a co-director of the Communication Sciences Institute. Dr. Chugg is co-author of the book Iterative Detection: Adaptivity, Complexity Reduction, and Applications and is a co-founder of TrellisWare Technologies, Inc., where he currently serves as Chief Scientist. He has been active in the IEEE as a Globecom conference organizer and as Associate Editor for Signal Processing and Iterative Detection, IEEE Transactions on Communications. His research interests are in signaling, detection, and estimation for digital communication and data storage systems.