Invited Speaker
Prof. Janina Mazierska
Janina Mazierska obtained MEEng and PhD from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. Currently she is a Professor at James Cook University, Australia and International Advisor at SEAT, Massey University in New Zealand. From 1987 to 2003 she had been working at James Cook University in Australia in various positions including Deputy and Acting Dean of Faculty of Engineering. Before that she had been with Warsaw University of Technology she graduated from. She was also a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University in 1991 and 1996.
Her research interests are microwave characterisation of low loss materials, (High Temperature Superconductors and dielectric materials especially) and their applications to wireless communications, with over 125 journal and conference proceedings papers published. She is an IEEE Fellow and she served as an IEEE Region 10 Director in 2007-08.
Abstract:
Novel low loss materials are needed to achieve miniaturisation and further advances in wireless communications with precisely known microwave properties. Measurements of complex permittivity of low loss dielectric materials (especially anisotropic) in a wide range of temperatures still represent a challenging issue. Accuracy of surface resistance tests of superconducting materials can be low in some cases, and characterisation of metamaterials is done only for one polarisation and one incident angle, what is rather unsatisfactory. Accuracy of measurements is also determined by accuracy in determination of unloaded Qo-factor of test fixtures. Hence progress in microwave characterisation of novel materials is also necessary. In this presentation a review of test resonators and a precise technique to measure the Qo-factor will be given. Also measurement results of complex permittivity of several low loss dielectrics and High Temperature superconducting materials will be shown.
Prof. Seiichi Takeuchi, Ph.D. Region 10 Distinguished Lecturer, Region 10 Director 2005-2006
Dr. Seiichi Takeuchi, Region 10 Director 2005-2006, IEEE Board of Directors 2005-2006, Region 10 Secretary, Tokyo Section Secretary/Treasurer, 1989-91, Tokyo Sec. Exec. Com, 1991- , Japan Council Exec. Comm, 2001-02, Regional Activities Board Sec. Chap. Supp. Comm., 2008: MGAB (Member Geographic Activities Board) Supp. Comm. Industrial Experiences: General Manager, Optoelectronic Laboratories; Senior General Manager, Corporate R&D Group; Corporate Senior General Manager at Sumitomo Electric Industries..
Academic Experiences: 1997-2002, Professor & Dean, Centre for Research Collaboration, Tokyo Denki University, 1972-74: Research Scientist, MIR (Microwave Research Institute) Polytechnic University, NY, USA.
Public Activities: OITDA (Optical Industries Technologies Development Association) Committee Members, Board Member, IBIS(Consortium of Basic Technologies Development Association of MITI and industries). MITI, MOES&C Comm.﹛for Gov./Industries/Academia, IEEE Fellow, Polytechnic University (formerly known as Brooklyn Poly) Fellow.
Abstract:
Hot topics in new technology developments and their applications in future telecommunication systems are discussed. Recently new technology development in telecommunication systems have been accelerated together with the technology development of the related basic technologies. Major three basic core technologies are discussed in terms of the core network speed (Gbps), HDD recording density and the server processing speed(TFLOPS). In this regard the bio industry can be additional new market. Electronic-nation strategy to build the most advanced IT nation is discussed from the view point of application area (new scheme) and infrastructure development. Ubiquitous-net is discussed by using ubiquitous nation strategy from the view point of next generation ICT society that can be realized in the near future. Impact on economy, impact on local areas and impact on livelihood are discussed. Next and new generation networks are discussed from the view point of providing open service platform based on manageable IP network. From the environmental view point CO2 emissions reduction is estimated based on ICT in Japan. New network technology roadmap is discussed for internet/cellular system, broadband ubiquitous network and semantic network. Directions to network evolution is examined based on the assumption that new communication networks would be capable of understanding situation and control itself autonomously according to changes in situation in order to guarantee quality of communication. Real-time field management by SDP is discussed based on visualization of all related operations and optimizations of the business by widely supporting service collaboration and information acquisition/sharing. Three usage patterns of context information are discussed from the view point of context-aware transport control, context-aware service control, and provision of context-information to application. Situation-aware monitoring is discussed based on the concept of monitoring center with appropriately networked information from visual and audio equipment. Recipient-aware service optimization is discussed as a practical application of accelerated progress in the telecommunication technology.
Prof. Wen Gao, Peking University, IEEE Fellow
Wen Gao received his Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Tokyo in 1991. He joined with the Harbin Institute of Technology from 1991 to 1995, as professor, chairman of department of computer science. He joined with Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), as professor from 1996 to 2005. During his career at CAS, he served as the managing director of ICT from 1998 to 1999, the vice president of Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2000 to 2004, the vice president of University of Science and Technology China from 2000 to 2003. He is joining with the Peking University as professor since 2006. Dr. Gao is working at the areas of multimedia, data compression, face recognition, sign language recognition and synthesis, image retrieval, multimodal interface, and bioinformatics. He is an IEEE fellow.
Abstract:
In this talk, the state of arts of AVS standard and beyond will be discussed. AVS is one of the three well-known second generation video coding standards in worldwide, created by AVS working group. AVS working group was established on June 2002, and based on the contributions from 100s video expert, the video part of standard has published as Chinese National Standard on Feb. of 2006, known as GB/T 20090.2-2006. The mission of AVS working group is to establish the national standard for compression, decompression, manipulation and display in digital audio and video multimedia equipment and systems. The experience of drafting AVS standard is that the technical standard must be synthetically considered the problems of standard and patent, to get a better balance between the licensor (patent holders), licensee, and end-user, then eventually to realize multi-parties-winning. AVS right now has been used in many applications include IPTV, internet video, mobile TV, cable TV, and so on. In second part of this talk, AVS future plan will be discussed.