BIOGRAPHY

Sureyya Ciliv is the CEO of Turkcell, Turkey’s leading communications and technology company, since January 2007. Before joining to Turkcell, he held executive positions in Microsoft Corporation.

In 1997, Ciliv was appointed as the Country Manager for Microsoft Turkey and in 2000 he was promoted to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, WA, USA. He held executive positions in the Microsoft Worldwide Sales, Marketing and Services Group from 2000 till 2007. Ciliv was the head of Field Readiness Strategy and Systems Division of Microsoft, before he joined Turkcell.

Between 1988 and 1997, Ciliv served respectively as Vice President, President and Chairman of Novasoft Systems, an enterprise document and workflow management company he co-founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He started his business career as a software development engineer at Metagraphics in Massachusetts where he was later promoted to be the director of international sales and marketing.

Ciliv has a MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1983 and BSE degrees in Computer Engineering and Industrial & Operations Engineering from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1981.

ABSTRACT

Today more than 5 billion people are connected with wireless devices through mobile technologies. This fact marks the ultimate end of “the long process of connecting everyone on Earth to a global telecommunications network, that began with the invention of telegraphy in 1791…” Mobile Technologies, not only allow people connectivity to whomever they want, but also changes the lives of billions radically. Now more than ever, professionals and academics expert on mobile communications and its technologies from all  over the world, has a chance of making an impact on peoples’ lives through technology. “Mobility, internet and convergence” will be the main driving forces of the future. Mobil internet is the new dynamic platform for engineers and the business world. The possibilities of a new relationship between business people and academics for “a better world through mobile technologies” will be reviewed.  

BIOGRAPHY

H. Vincent Poor is with Princeton University, where he is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His current research interests are in the areas of stochastic analysis, statistical signal processing, and information theory, and their applications in wireless networking and related fields. His publications in these areas include the recent books MIMO Wireless Communications (Cambridge, 2007) and Information Theoretic Security (Now, 2009). Dr. Poor is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the U. S. National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and an International Fellow of the U. K. Royal Academy of Engineering. Recent recognition of his work includes the 2009 Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society.

ABSTRACT

A salient feature of wireless networks is the close interaction between the physical layer (PHY) and other networking layers. This phenomenon is a result of the principal distinguishing features of wireless, namely mobility and the importance of physical properties (diffusion, interference, fading and radio geometry) in determining link characteristics. For example, the applications layer (APP) interacts considerably with the physical layer, as is well known through the importance of quality-of-service in wireless network design. This talk will explore four other issues in which the applications layer influences, or interacts with, the physical layer. In particular, the four applications of file transfer, real-time multimedia transmission, inference and social networking, will be used to motivate consideration of four respective research problems involving the physical layer: physical layer security in data networks, finite-blocklength capacity in multimedia networks, distributed inference in sensor networks, and connectivity in small-world networks. Recent progress in each of these three research areas will be reviewed.

BIOGRAPHY

Bob is a 30 year veteran in the field of data communications and wireless data and is widely known for his many articles and presentations on the topic. He is the Chairman, CEO and founding member of the ZigBee Alliance, Chair and founding member of the IEEE 802.15 Working Group on WPANs, Co-Chair of the IEEE P2030 Smart Grid Communications Task Force and is a founding member of 802.11. Before assuming the leadership of the ZigBee Alliance, Bob was a Wireless Communications Consultant for several high profile companies. Prior to that Bob was with GTE/BBN responsible for Wireless Opportunity Business Development, with the mission of commercializing wireless mesh networking, wireless PAN technologies and public 802.11 data services. In 1990 he was a co-founder of Windata, Inc., an early developer of WLANs. From 1980-1990, Bob was with Motorola Codex, as VP/GM of the company’s modem business. Bob holds a BA from Oberlin College, and an MA and Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

ABSTRACT

Fuelled by concerns over global warming and the rapid growth in electric demand, the Smart Grid has become a focal point as energy providers worldwide expedite their smart grid plans to meet regulatory deadlines. The challenge is formidable. Nevertheless, what makes a grid smart, or at least different from the grid of today, is the fact that it must deliver both energy and information. The delivery of both energy and information must also be end-to-end and bi-directional. Energy will be generated both at traditional generation facilities as well as in local or distributed generation facilities. Information covering every aspect of electricity from generation to consumption will also be conveyed.

The motivation for this monumental change is equally broad and is driven by a desire to ensure the future power needs of a region by improving power reliability and quality, generation and transmission efficiency, expand the of use of renewable energy, implement new load shifting and energy efficiency programs at the point of use that reduce consumption on a per customer basis, while boosting consumer awareness and choice, to name but a few. Additionally, a Smart Grid is key to more effectively managing and meeting our carbon footprint goals and building a workable electric vehicle infrastructure.

This presentation summarizes some of the top level issues and thinking. In particular, it will explore various standards activities, how aspects of the Smart Grid are coming together from a consumer perspective, and will highlight specific implementations completed or underway by some of the world’s major utilities.
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BIOGRAPHY

I. F. Akyildiz is the Ken Byers Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, the Director of Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunication Group. Since June 2008, Dr. Akyildiz is an honorary professor with the School of Electrical Engineering at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) and the Director of the N3Cat (NaNoNetworking Center in Catalunya) in Barcelona, Spain. He is also an Honorary Professor with University of Pretoria, South Africa, since March 2009 and Visiting Professor with King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia since January 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) Journal, the Physical Communication (Elsevier) Journal and the Nano Communication Networks (Elsevier) Journal. Dr. Akyildiz serves on the advisory boards of several research centers, journals, conferences and publication companies.He is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). He received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. His research interests are in nano-networks, cognitive radio networks and wireless sensor networks.

ABSTRACT

Traditional communication technologies are not suitable for wireless nanosensor networks mainly due to the size, capabilities and power consumption of transceivers, receivers and other components. These call for a new communication paradigm that demands novel solutions such as transceivers, channel models or protocols for wireless nanosensor networks. Communication of wireless sensors in the nanoscale can be realized through molecular or electromagnetic communication. Molecular communication is defined as the transmission and reception of information encoded in molecules where electromagnetic based communication is defined as the transmission and reception of electromagnetic radiation from components based on novel nano-scale materials. In this talk, open research challenges, i.e., molecular based communication theory, terahertz channel modeling for EM cases, and the development of new architectures and protocols, information encoding, network architectures, and protocols are highlighted, and a roadmap is introduced for the development of this new networking paradigm.