This upcoming wireless event came into my inbox:

Event: ECINA Wireless Special Interest Group (SIG) Seminar
Date: June 26, 2008

Topics:

1. Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges
2. Navigate the Mobile Ecosystem

Time: 6:30pm to 8:30pm, Thursday, June 26, 2008
Location: Foley Hoag LLP, 1000 Winter St, North Entrance, Suite 4000, Waltham, MA

Wireless Sensor Networks, the epitome of a pervasive technology, are shaping many activities in our society with an endless array of potential applications, ranging from building automation and homeland security to manufacturing, robotics and healthcare. NECINA Wireless SIG is proud to invite Professor Yannis Paschalidis, Academic Director of the Sensor Network Consortium, to give a presentation on the Promises and Challenges of Wireless Sensor Networks.

There are more than 2 billion mobile users worldwide, over 1 billion mobile phones sold every year, and numerous new Wireless applications and services burgeoned and consumed every day. The opportunities in the Wireless Industry seem to be unlimited. NECINA Wireless SIG is proud to invite Mr. Meng Cao, Solutions Architect and Practice Manager at Lionbridge Technologies, to discuss what the Mobile Ecosystem looks like, identify the market trends, and brainstorm where opportunities lie for entrepreneurs.

Registration: This event is open to all public. Free registration is required.
To register, go to http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=160344. Space is limited.

Agenda:
6:30pm-7:00pm Networking (Pizza will be served)
7:00pm-7:40pm Wireless Sensor Network: Promises and Challenges
Professor Yannis Paschalidis, Academic Director of the Sensor Network Consortium; Co-Director, Center for Information and System Engineering, Boston University

Professor Paschalidis is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at Boston University with a joint appointment in the Departments of Manufacturing Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Co-Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) - a Boston University research center with 26 affiliated faculty and more than $12 million in externally funded active research projects. He is also affiliated with the BioMolecular Engineering Research Center (BMERC). Prof. Paschalidis serves as the Academic Director of the Sensor Network Consortium (SNC) - an industry consortium he spearheaded which currently consists of 14 companies focusing in sensor networks.

He completed his graduate education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) receiving an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) degree, both in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In September 1996 he joined Boston University where he has been ever since. He has held visiting appointments with MIT, and the Columbia University Business School. His current research interests lie in the fields systems and control, networking, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, and bioinformatics. Specifics applications of interest include: communication and sensor networks, protein docking, manufacturing systems, and supply chains.

His work on communication networks has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the National Science Foundation and the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS. He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, organized by the National Academy of Engineering. He has served in the program committees of several conferences, including, the INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, and the IEEE INFOCOM. He is a senior member of the IEEE and an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and the Operations Research Letters.

7:40pm-7:55pm Questions and Answers
7:55pm-8:15pm Navigate the Mobile Ecosystem
Meng Cao, Solutions Architect and Practice Manager, Lionbridge Technologies

Mr. Cao is currently Practice Manager from Lionbridge Technologies. Meng is responsible for providing thought leadership and creating service lines to serve clients mobility product initiatives. Meng has more than 12 years software development, project management and business development experience in the Telecom, IT, and mobile application industry. Before Lionbridge, Meng led Chinasoft Internationals outsourcing engagements with US based key accounts, including Microsoft. Before Chinasoft, he held various technical positions at Siemens Mobile, ADC, and Lucent, led many projects in development, testing and deployment of wireless infrastructure and applications. He holds an MS in Computer Science from NJIT, M.Eng from Singapore Nanyang University, and a MBA from Babson College.

8:15pm-8:30pm Questions and Answers

Organizers: Hui Huang (hui_huang@yahoo.com), Tao Wu (tao.a.wu@gmail.com), Baoqing Ye (baoqingyemail@gmail.com), Yongjun Zhang (yongjun.zhang@nokia.com), and Zhe Wang (zwang3@babson.edu)

For more information, please visit the following sites
NECINA Wireless SIG: http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NECINA_SIG_WIRELESS/
NECINA: http://www.necina.org/

Event Sponsor: Foley Hoag LLC http://www.foleyhoag.com/

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