Hossein Eslambolchi Henry Samueli

PLENARY
Tuesday 30 November 2004 • 8:30 – 10:00
Room: Landmark A-B
Hossein Eslambolchi
Henry Samueli
Hossein Eslambolchi,
Henry Samueli,
President-AT&T Global Networking Technology Services,
AT&T CTO & CIO
Founder of Broadcom
Presentation on Future Directions in Networks
Hossein
Eslambolchi
is
President of AT&T’s Global
Networking
Technology
Services (GNTS), AT&T’s Chief
Technology Officer (CTO) and
Chief Information Officer (CIO).
He is responsible for the corporation’s strategic technology
direction, network operations,
research and development,
information technology systems and processes, and advises the chairman and senior
leaders on technology issues.
Hossein is a member of AT&T’s
Executive Committee, the company’s governing executive
panel led by AT&T Chairman and CEO David W. Dorman.
As GNTS president, Hossein leads all network development, engineering and operations, as well as the CIO and CTO organizations including AT&T Labs.
As CTO, Hossein oversees the formulation and implementation of a
strategic vision to advance technology in conjunction with AT&T’s
business objectives. He is the President of AT&T Labs and leads some
of the world's best scientists and engineers in the development and
creation of new services, tools and capabilities for next-generation
Internet Protocol (IP) networks to give AT&T and its customers a competitive edge.
As CIO, he provides the leadership to reengineer AT&T’s business
processes and the underlying information technology (IT) infrastructures -- improving productivity and the value of information within the
organization. He leads the direction and alignment of IT to support
AT&T’s business planning, applications development, architectural
design, sourcing, strategic partnerships, technology transfer, and customer satisfaction.
Abstract: Dr. Eslambolchi will address the lessons for the technical
community derived from AT&T's campaign to transform from its multiple legacy networks to one global IP / MPLS network. He will discuss
the technical challenges that must be overcome to achieve his vision
of an Application-Aware Network that adapts itself to business users
needs for server processing power, storage and bandwidth. Finally, he
will examine what AT&T has learned from current activities to automate wherever possible and the technical developments necessary to
achieve the desired end state of a Cybernated Network that will automatically configure itself to provide robust and secure new
capabilities.
Presentation on Future Devices for Broadband
Systems
Dr. Henry Samueli is CoFounder, Chairman, and Chief
Technical Officer (CTO) of
Broadcom Corporation. The
Office of the CTO is responsible for driving the vision of
Broadcom's research and
development activities as well
as helping coordinate corporate-wide engineering development strategies. Dr. Samueli
has more than 25 years of
experience in the fields of communications systems engineering and digital signal processing.
Dr. Samueli has served as CTO since the Company’s inception in
August 1991. He served as Co-Chairman from August 1991 until May
2003 and Chairman since May 2003. He also served as Vice President
of Research & Development from August 1991 until March 2003.
Since 1985 Dr. Samueli has been a professor in the Electrical
Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles
(UCLA), where he has supervised advanced research programs in
broadband communications circuits and digital signal processing, and
he has published more than 100 technical papers in these areas. Dr.
Samueli has been on a leave of absence from UCLA since 1995.
Dr. Samueli received a B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a named inventor
in 21 U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and a Member of the National Academy of
Engineering.
Abstract: "Wireless in Everything: Life in a Fully Connected World"
The communications IC industry is experiencing explosive growth as
a result of the emergence of highly integrated, very low cost, systemon-a-chip solutions that enable virtually every electronic device to be
connected to a network. The pace of innovation in wireless, whether it
be 802.11, Bluetooth, Cellular, or Ultrawideband is nothing short of
astounding. The total number of wireless data connections already far
surpasses wired data connections, and even if we restrict ourselves to
IEEE 802 based protocols, we expect that over the next few years there
will be more 802.11 connections then 802.3 connections, as 802.11
finds its way into consumer devices including cell phones, cameras,
camcorders, printers, game systems, portable phones, PDAs and the
like. This talk will explore both the historical and future technology and
business trends that provide the basis for everything being wireless.
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