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- First Day Keynote Lecture 1 (Wednesday, March 8, 2006)
Ubiquitous Broadband Communications: The Next Frontier
By: Dr. Khaled Ben Letaief
- First Day Keynote Lecture 2 (Wednesday, March 8, 2006)
Wireless and Mobile Technologies at Lucent
By: Mr. Hamid Breik
- Second Day Keynote Lecture (Thursday, March 9, 2006)
Parallelism Challenges: Rewind and Fast Forward
By: Dr. Hesham El-Rewini
- Third Day Keynote Lecture (Saturday, March 11, 2006)
Next Generation Internet: Opportunities and Challenges
By: Dr. Mounir Hamdi
- Banquet Keynote Lecture (Thursday Night, March 9, 2006)
iDDT-The Heartbeat of an Integrated Circuit Chip
By: Dr. Rafic Makki
- Luncheon Keynote Lecture (Thursday Luncheon, March 9, 2006)
Trends and Prospects of Corporate and Higher-Education E-learning Global Infrastructures in the Semantic Web Age
By: Dr. Yacine Atif
First Day Keynote Lecture 1 (Wednesday, March 8, 2006)
Ubiquitous Broadband Communications: The Next Frontier
Khaled Ben Letaief, IEEE Fellow
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Chair Professor and Head EEE Department,
The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Email: eekhaled@ee.ust.hk
www.ee.ust.hk/~eekhaled
Abstract
The information communications technology has undergone revolutionary changes, which have recently led to the exponential growth of wireless and mobile services. The communication landscape will undoubtedly continue to experience spectacular developments due to the emergence of new interactive multimedia applications and highly integrated systems driven by the rapid growth in information services and microelectronic devices. So far, most of the current mobile systems are mainly targeted to voice communications with low transmission rates. In the near future, however, broadband data access at high transmission rates will be needed to provide users packet-based connectivity to a plethora of services. It is also almost certain that the neXt Generation (XG) wireless systems will consist of complementary systems with a set of different standards and technologies along with different requirements and client platforms as well as complementary capabilities that will offer users ubiquitous wireless connectivity between mobile and desktop computers, machines, game systems, cellular phones, consumer electronic products, and other hand-held devices. A key requirement in future wireless systems is their ability to provide broadband connectivity with end-to-end QoS along with a high network capacity and throughput at a low cost per bit of data services. To support the above services, a host of new issues and problems have to be addressed. This talk will discuss the challenges facing the XG ubiquitous broadband systems and then describe some of the leading enabling technologies for increasing system capacity and spectral efficiency while meeting the stringent requirements of future networks.
Speaker Biography
Professor Letaief received the Ph.D. Degrees in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, USA in 1990. From 1990 to 1993, he was a faculty member at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Since 1993, he has been with HKUST where he is a Chair Professor and Head of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department. He is also the Director of the Hong Kong Telecom Institute of Information Technology as well as the Director of the Center for Wireless Information Technology.
Dr. Letaief is an acknowledged authority in the area of wireless and mobile communications including broadband wireless data access, wideband CDMA, MIMO systems, OFDM, Cross-layer design, and beyond 3G systems. In these areas, he has published over 280 journal and conference papers and given invited and keynote talks as well as courses all over the world. He served as consultants for different organizations and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He also served on the editorial board of other journals including the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas In Communications (as Editor-in-Chief). Professor Letaief has been involved in organizing a number of major international conferences and events. He also served as the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Personal Communications as well as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Activity Council. In addition to his active research activities, Professor Letaief has also been a dedicated teacher committed to excellence in teaching and scholarship. He received the Mangoon Teaching Award from Purdue University in 1990; the Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award by the School of Engineering at HKUST (4 times); and the Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching (Highest university-wide teaching award).
He is a Fellow of IEEE, an elected member of the IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors, and an IEEE Distinguished lecturer.
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First Day Keynote Lecture 2 (Wednesday, March 8, 2006)
Wireless and Mobile Technologies at Lucent
Mr. Hamid Breik
Lucent Technologies, UAE
Abstract
This keynote will highlight the state of the art of wireless and mobile technologies at Lucent.
Speaker Biography
Mr. Hamdi Breik is currently working for Lucent Technologies and responsible for Mobility solutions for Middle East and Africa region. Mr. Breik has obtained his MSC degree in digital electronics since 1981. Mr. Breik has been working with Lucent Technologies for the past 10 years where he took several key positions in deploying GSM and 3G solutions. Prior to his work with Lucent, Mr. Breik worked for a couple of operators in Kuwait and Australia. His involvement in mobility started in 1985 and covered all mobility generations 1G, 2G and 3G.
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Second Day Keynote Lecture (Thursday, March 9, 2006)
Parallelism Challenges: Rewind and Fast Forward
Hesham El-Rewini, Ph.D., P.E.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SMU
Email: rewini@engr.smu.edu
www.engr.smu.edu/~rewini
Abstract
Parallel processing has gone through several phases over the past few decades. From the early pessimism of Amdhal’s law, going through the proliferation of parallel systems in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the collapse of the parallel computing industry soon after, and finally with its recent resurrection, parallel processing has experienced several ups and downs. In this lecture, we will rewind the parallel processing tape to identify critical challenges in parallel processing and discuss the factors that have driven its fluctuating change. We will also examine the role that parallel processing is playing in today’s computing platforms and offer an outlook to the future.
Speaker Biography
Dr. El-Rewini is Full Professor and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at SMU. El-Rewini’s research interests include the areas of parallel and distributed processing, mobile computing, scheduling algorithms, and software tools. He is the co-author of five books in Computer architecture published by Wiley (2004 and 2005); parallel and distributed computing published by Prentice-Hall and Manning (1992 and 1998); and task scheduling published by Prentice Hall (1994). He is also the editor or co-editor of many conference proceeding books published by the IEEE Computer Society. His research work has resulted in numerous publications in prestigious journals and conference proceedings. Other professional activities include chairing several international conferences, participation in the editorial board of IEEE Concurrency, participation in several international program and steering committees, acting as an NSF panelist, and as a referee for IEEE Computer, IEEE Concurrency, IEEE Software, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Parallel Computing, and several other journals and conferences. Dr. El-Rewini is also a registered engineer in the state of Texas.
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Third Day Keynote Lecture (Saturday, March 11, 2006)
Next Generation Internet: Opportunities and Challenges
Mounir Hamdi, Ph.D.
Director of the Computer Engineering Programme
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Email: hamdi@cs.ust.hk
Website: www.cs.ust.hk/~hamdi
Abstract
Broadband access technologies, such as DSL, cable modems, gigabit Ethernet, and WLANs are providing affordable and flexible high-speed access to the Internet from the home and the enterprise. On the other hand advances in fiber optic bandwidth has created huge supply of wide-area network bandwidth. The net result of this trend is the constant growth of Internet traffic and the associated applications. This, in turn, is requiring the design of high-performance core routers with high-speed interfaces (e.g., OC-192 or OC-768) and large switching capacity (e.g., a few tens of terabit/s). In addition, it is putting a big burden on network service providers to provide a scalable easy-to-use service differentiation. In this talk, we first address the evolution of Internet access in terms of equipment as well as protocols standards adopted. We will survey the big industry players in this area as well as current academic research efforts. Then, we detail the key challenges of building core routers that can scale with this huge Internet traffic, such as memory speed constraint, packet arbitration bottleneck, and interconnection complexity. We then present the current (as well as future) router architectures and its building blocks, including those in the line cards such as network processors for IP route lookup and packet classification, and the switch fabric. Several switch architectures of commercial core routers and switch chip sets are surveyed, including the most recent CRS-1 from Cisco with 46 Terabit/s switching capacity and the T-640 from Juniper. We then describe the recent push for IP-over-MPLS as a "best" solution to provide scalable service differentiation in the Internet and its underlying technology. At the end, we outline several challenging issues that remain to be researched for the next generation Internet and how they relate to the design of routers/switches and their protocols.
Speaker Biography
Mounir Hamdi received the B.S. degree in Computer Engineering (with distinction) from the University of Louisiana in 1985, and the MS and the PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 1987 and 1991, respectively. From 1985 to 1991, he was a teaching/research fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh where he was involved in major research projects as well as teaching undergraduate courses.
He has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1991, where he is now Full Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Computer Engineering Program that has around 350 undergraduate students, and Director of the Computer Engineering and Networking Lab. In 1999 to 2000 he held visiting professor positions at Stanford University, USA, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland. His general areas of research is in high-speed wired/wireless networking in which he has published more than 200 research publications, received numerous research grants, and graduated more 20 postgraduate students. In addition, he has frequently consulted for companies in the USA, Europe and Asia on high-performance Internet routers and switches as well as high-speed wireless LANs. Currently, he is working on the design, analysis, scheduling, and management of high-performance Internet switches/routers, algorithm/architecture co-design, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks/switches, and high-speed wireless networks. In particular, he is leading a research team at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology that is designing one the highest capacity chip sets for Terabit switches/routers in the world. This chip set is targeted towards a 256 x 256 OC-192 Internet switches, and includes a crossbar fabric chip, a scheduler/arbiter chip, and a traffic management chip.
Dr. Hamdi is/was on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Magazine, Computer Networks, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and Parallel Computing, and has been on the program committees of more than 70 international conferences and workshops. He was a guest editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, guest editor-in-chief of two special issues of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communications, and a guest editor of Optical Networks Magazine, and has chaired more than 5 international conferences and workshops including the IEEE GLOBECOM/ICC Optical networking workshop, the IEEE ICC High-speed Access Workshop, and the IEEE IPPS HiNets Workshop. He is/was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Transmissions, Access and Optical Systems, and Vice-Chair of the Optical Networking Technical Committee, as well as member of the ComSoc technical activities council. He is/was on the technical program committees of more than 100 international conferences and workshops. He received the best paper award at the International Conference on Information and Networking in 1998 out of 152 papers. He also supervised the best PhD paper award amongst all universities in Hong Kong. In addition to his commitment to research and professional service, he is also a dedicated teacher. He received the best 10 lecturers award (through university-wide student voting for all university faculty held once a year), the distinguished engineering teaching appreciation award from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and various grants targeted towards the improvement of teaching methodologies, delivery and technology. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
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Banquet Keynote Lecture (Thursday night, March 9, 2006)
iDDT-The Heartbeat of an Integrated Circuit Chip
Rafic Makki, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Information Technology
UAE University, UAE
Email: makki@uaeu.ac.ae
www.cit2.uaeu.ac.ae/makkiweb/
Abstract
This talk presents advancements in the area of testing VLSI circuits by
deploying the dynamic power supply current iDDT. The iDDT provides direct
observability over the switching characteristics of the circuit, thereby
providing useful insight during the test process. The results of simulation
studies as well as physical experimentation show a dramatic increase in
fault coverage and reductions in test time.
Speaker Biography
Rafic Makki is currently serving as Dean of the College of Information Technology at UAE University. Dr. Makki has over 20 years of experience in IC design and test. His most significant accomplishments include the development of the iDDT pulse test method which has gained considerable attention and widely cited. Dr. Makki has directed research projects as PI or co-PI in the areas of: Integrated Circuits Design and Test (developed new methods for testing integrated circuits, testability tools, new design for testability methods, and logic synthesis for testability tools); Computer Integrated Manufacturing (scheduling tools for the IBM Charlotte plant); Biomedical Instrumentation (development of a device that can be implanted in the human body and can monitor parameters such as strain on orthopedic implants).
Dr. Makki has received research funding from the US National Science Foundation, DARPA, IBM, Solectron, Intel, Lucent, Carolinas Medical Center, and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina.
Dr. Makki is the recipient of several awards including the 2005 IBM Faculty Research Award (first in the Middle-East), the 2002 First Citizen Research Scholar Medal, and the ALCOA Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award. He has served as President of the Faculty at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and served as CEO of Horizon Technologies.
Dr. Makki received a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1983 from Tennessee Tech University.
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Luncheon Keynote Lecture (Thursday Luncheon, March 9, 2006)
Trends and Prospects of Corporate and Higher-Education E-learning Global Infrastructures in the Semantic Web Age
Yacine Atif, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Massey University, New Zealand
Email: Y.Atif@massey.ac.nz
www-ist.massey.ac.nz/researchgroups/DisplayStaff.asp?StaffID=532
Abstract
The Semantic Web is the emerging landscape shaping the future World Wide
Web, aiming at the provision of distributed information with well-defined
meaning and services that would be understandable and reusable by both
humans and machines. E-learning software on the other hand, are intended not
only to deliver but also to build job-transferable knowledge and skills,
linked to individual learning contexts as well as organizational
performance. The confluence of the Semantic Web and E-learning is expected
to lead to synergistic effects and opportunities for sharing and reusing
instructional resources globally in an open learning environment. Several
technical standards are paving the way towards interoperating knowledge
repositories in order to nurture a pervasive learning environment and to
prescribe personalized learning models for incremental knowledge
construction. This presentation shows the potentials and prospects of this
intense standardization work in building Semantic Web-based e-learning
architectures in high-education and corporate training contexts.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Yacine Atif received the PhD degree in Computer Science from Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 1996. After graduation, he
worked at Purdue University in the USA as a Post-Doc and then joined a
faculty position at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore.
From 1999 to 2005, he was with the UAE University as faculty, then Program
Chair and then Assistant-Dean for Academic Affairs at the College of
Information Technology. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at Massey
University in New Zealand since June 2005.
Dr. Atif has made a number of
research contributions particularly in the area of Internet Computing and
related applications such as the transfer of Educational Media and
Resources. His teaching, scholarship and academic excellence have been
acknowledged by several awards including Best Teaching Award, Best Funded
Project Award in the area of e-learning and Excellence in Academic Services
Award from the UAE University.
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