Austin COMSOC/SP Chapter IEEE Central Texas Section Spring Planning Meeting Sep 8, 2012 San Marcos, TX

IEEE Central Texas Section Austin Leadership Team l Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman) l Hanan Potash (Vice Chair) l Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison) l Kwok Wu (Treasurer) l Syed Shah (Secretary) l Mahdy Saedy (Technical Program, Mem. Dev.) l Richard Penshorn (Web Master, Soc Media) l Behrang Nosrat-Makouei (University Outreach) l Saurabh Sureka (Member at-large) l Tim Raper (Member at-large)

IEEE Central Texas Section Austin Chapter Updates l Feb. 6, Outreach program: Career Fair “Coast-To-Coast” l Feb 23-24, Support CTS/eWeek l Jun 11-15, Support ICC12 l August 6-9 “NI Week – Texas Day“ l NOV 12 Home Networking Summit & Distinguished Guest Lecturer l Nov 13 Distinguished Lecture – Dr. Mischa Dohler

IEEE Central Texas Section Austin Career Fair Feb. 6, names were added to IEEE COMSOC Holiday Inn Austin Midtown

IEEE Central Texas Section CTS NIWEEK

IEEE Central Texas Section 2012 Austin COMSOC/SP Meetings

IEEE Central Texas Section SWOT Analysis l Strengths l AT&T Facility l Students outreach l Weaknesses l Connection with local communities l vTools vs Eventbrite l Opportunities l Collaboration with UT students l Home Networking Summit l Threats l Too many forms. Need simplification

IEEE Central Texas Section Home Networking Summit Date: Nov.12, 2012, Location: 7700 Parmer Target: 150 Persons Objectives: The objectives of the workshop is to provide a forum of learning, dialog and networking regarding home networking marketing and technological trends, evolved architecture solutions and services and identify and demonstrate what is currently available. Technical Key Topics Mobile Device, Platform and Application Mobile platform and mobile applications Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, protocols, applications Mobile cloud computing / platform issues and techniques Home Automation Standards n/ac/WiGiG, 3G/4G-LTE/Femto, xDSL/PON/FTTH/G.FAST Wireless Communications Modulation, coding and diversity techniques MIMO and multi-antenna communications OFDM and multi-carrier systems Converged Network Architecture for Cloud Services Wireless media gateway and vehicular communications Networked home security & safety surveillance Smart energy and home automation Health monitoring and management Multimedia Networking, Services and Applications Compression, video streaming and quality of service Development kits, software package and solutions Practical tips on maintaining secure home network Guest Speaker - Dr. Mischa Dohler Dr. Mischa Dohler is the Head of Intelligent Energy Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), in Barcelona, Spain. He has published around 150 technical journal and conference papers and participated in ETSI, IETF and other standardization activities. Save the date Austin Chapter Plans / Issues Issues: Lack of comprehensive GOTO sources

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