IP: NYCWireless Meeting with Special Guest Speaker Dave Farber

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Wednesday, July 31.

6-8pm Monthly Meeting with Special Guest Speaker Dave Farber

Location Details : Earth Pledge Foundation, 149 East 38th St., Street Level
Entrance - Bet. Lex. and 3rd Ave. - Ring buzzer if necessary.

Agenda

6-6:30pm Intro to Wireless and Q & A period

6:30-7pm SIG Updates

7-8pm Special Guest Speaker Dave Farber will talk about the new direction in
FCC spectrum management.

Below is a bio about him:

David Farber is the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication
Systems, holding dual appointments in the Computer and Information Science
and Electrical Engineering Departments at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he manages leading edge research in High Speed Networking. In
addition, he holds appointments as a Faculty Fellow of the Wharton School of
Business and a Faculty Associate of the Annenberg School of Communications.
In 2000, he served as Chief Technologist at the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission. He also directs the Center for Communications and Information
Sciences and Policy. He is a Visiting Professor of the Center for Global
communications of Japan, a Senior Fellow at the Asia Network Research, a
member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and
has served on the Presidential Advisory Board on Information Technology.
Dave is the recipient of the 1995 ACM Sigcomm Award for lifelong
contributions to the computer communications field, and in 1997 was awarded
the prestigious John Scott Award for Contributions to Humanity. In 1997,
Upside magazine named him one of its Elite 100 visionaries of the field, and
in 1999 Dave was named in Network World as one of the 25 most powerful
people in networking.

More info : http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber/

 


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