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Spring 2010 Industry Advisory Board Meeting. April 19, 2010 Centergy Gordon Biersch.
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Spring 2010 Industry Advisory Board Meeting April 19, 2010 Centergy Gordon Biersch
The Georgia Tech Broadband Institute’s Industry Advisory Board meeting got underway Monday afternoon at 4:30 on April 19 in the Hodges Room at Centergy. Roughly 40 students presented 30 posters while demonstrating 12 new technologies in real time.
GCATT Fellow Eun-Seok Ryu prepares to show his demo on “The Home Gateway” during the demo and poster show held in The Hodges Room at Centergy Monday afternoon.
Arshard Chowdhury demonstrating how to send multi-gigabit, uncompressed HD pathology files over fiber and then through the ether for the benefit of doctors for real-time diagnoses.
A busy corner: Dan Howard of VQLink, top left; Rahul Basole of the Tennenbaum Institute, top right; Bobby Macedonia and Jessica Pater of GTRI / Future Media, foreground.
Daniel Howard (tan jacket) and Nitin Suresh explain the benefits of VQLink’s automatic video quality algorithm to an IAB partner.
Scott Ryan (center) discusses start-up Asankya’s cloud computing acceleration abilities with John Yoakum of Avaya as Utsav Kanani listens in.
MMC lab student Sourabh Khire explains his work on compressing multi-gigabit pathology slides into a format that can be digitally transmitted over fiber lines and ether as Dr. Carl Rust listens.
MMC Lab student Saunya Williams speaks with Sean McCarthy of Motorola about her research into “Effects of Image Compression on Nuclear Recognition in Telepathology.”
Hank Kafka of AT&T (right) shares a light moment with Prof. Faramarz Fekri as his student, Mohsen Sardari, explains his work on rateless coding to a visitor.
Don Loheide (left) and Phil Sharpe of Turner listen as a student explains her work.
Goizueta Business School Prof. Benn Konsynski (left) chats with Georgia Tech’s new Executive Vice President for Research Stephen Cross.
Kudos to Michael Green (w/o glasses) for leading eight groups of executives through a rigorous comparison of current 3D technologies during the course of the 2-hour demo/poster show.
Massimiliano Pierobon explaining his work on nano-networks to his colleagues.
Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar and GT Prof. Gee-Kung Chang (center) and his ground-breaking group of optical-wireless convergence gurus.
After the poster/demo show, the group reconvened at Gordon Biersch for a social event, including a talk from Emory Professor Benn Konsynski.
Laurie Dean Baird of Turner listens as Daniel Howard of VQLink shares a humorous tale….
Emory Professor Benn Konsynski capped the event by speaking to us on ““The Rendered and the Real: Bits, Atoms and New Social Behaviors.” It was most entertaining and insightful, and, indeed, in four parts.