National Broadband Plan Workshop on the State of Broadband-related Research
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National Broadband Plan Workshop on the State of Broadband-related Research
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St. SW
Washington DC 20554
Monday, November 23, 2009
9:30 a.m.
Contact:
Douglas Sicker
doug.sicker@fcc.gov
(202) 425-6184
http://broadband.gov/ws_research_bb.html
The current state of broadband research and how research can help bolster U.S. competitiveness and technology innovation will be the subject of a staff workshop Monday. Open to the public, the workshop is intended to gather data and information for the development of a National Broadband Plan, including a set of research recommendations that Congress could consider to enable the U.S. to be a global leader in broadband networking in the years 2020 and beyond and to further broadband deployment in the US over the next decade.
AGENDA:
9:30 a.m. INTRODUCTION OF WORKSHOP
FCC Participants:
- Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker
- Douglas C. Sicker, Senior Advisor, National Broadband Taskforce
- Stagg Newman, Chief Technologist, National Broadband Taskforce
- Rashmi Doshi, Chief, Laboratory Division, Office of Engineering and Technology
- Erik Garr, General Manager, National Broadband Taskforce
9:35 a.m. PANEL 1
- Dan Atkins, Kellogg Professor of Community Information, University of Michigan
- Charles Bostian, Alumni Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
- Vint Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc. (remote)
- David Clark, Senior Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Chip Elliot, Chief Engineer, BBN Technologies; Project Director, Global Environment for Network Innovations
- Ty Znati, Division Director, Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation
1:00 a.m. PANEL 2
- Victor Bahl, Principal Researcher & Manager, Networking Research Group, Microsoft Research
- David Borth, Corporate VP & CTO, Government and Public Safety, Motorola, Inc.
- Adam Drobot, President & CTO, Advanced Technology Solutions, Telcordia Technologies
- David Farber, Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (remote)
- Dick Green, President & CEO, Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
- Mark Levine, Managing Director, Core Capital Partners
3:00 p.m. ADJOURNMENT
