Telecom Technology for the 21st Century

Telecom Technology for the 21st Century

Presenter: Larry Rabiner, former Vice President of Research, AT&T Bell Labs

Host: Alon Orlitsky, Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego - contact Prof. Orlitsky through Leah Bellacera at lbellace@soe.ucsd.edu

Date: Thursday, May 9, 2002

Time: 1:30 PM, Reception to Follow

Location: CMRR Auditorium, UCSD Campus, La Jolla (directions and parking information)

Live Webcast: http://earth.ucsd.edu:8080/ramgen/encoder/rabiner.rm
Archived Webcasts available at: http://www.calit2.net/multimedia/archive.html
Courtesy: California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Calit²]

Abstract: Telecommunications in the 20th century has consisted primarily of a combination of circuit-switched voice, fax and data and, more recently, packet-switched data and voice. In this talk we give predictions as to the major trends in each area of telecommunications of the 21st century, ranging from the architecture of the new network to the services that we perceive will be running on the network. Multimedia demos of some basic services will be included in the presentation.

Bio: Lawrence Rabiner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 28, 1943. He received the S.B., and S.M. degrees simultaneously in June 1964, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in June 1967, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge Massachusetts. Dr. Rabiner joined AT&T Bell Labs in 1967 as a Member of the Technical Staff. He was promoted to Supervisor in 1972, Department Head in 1985, Director in 1990, and Functional Vice President in 1995. He joined the newly created AT&T Labs in 1996 as Director of the Speech and Image Processing Services Research Lab, and was promoted to Vice President of Research in 1998 where he managed a broad research program in communications, computing, and information sciences technologies. Dr. Rabiner retired from AT&T at the end of March 2002.

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