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Events Rensselaer
at Hartford’s Computer Science Seminar Series Presents, EVENT:
Kourosh Parsa, Ph.D., founder and head of his own consulting firm, Parsa
Wireless Communications, will present a seminar titled, "Past,
Present, and Future of Mobile Communications." The presentation
is part of Rensselaer at Hartford’s Computer Science Seminar Series. DATE: Friday, February 14, 2003 TIME:
6 p.m. LOCATION:
Seminar Hall, Rensselaer at Hartford, 275 Windsor Street, Hartford ADMISSION:
FREE! Open to the public. All are welcome to attend. PARKING
AND DIRECTIONS: Free parking is available in the on-site garage.
For directions to the Rensselaer at Hartford campus, please see:
www.ewp.rpi.edu/hartford/cwis/directions.html. TOPIC
DISCUSSION: The presentation will begin with an overview of mobile
technologies, mobile services, and applications in 2.5G, 3G, and Wireless
LAN spaces. The talk will then touch on the areas of innovations in
the mobile communications field and focus on mobile data as well as
the latest mobile terminals in the market. Competing technologies such
as CDMA2000-GPRS-EDGE-WCDMA and WLAN will be compared to set the stage
for discussion of the next generation of mobile systems. ABOUT
THE SPEAKER: Dr. Parsa has been involved in the wireless field over
the past fifteen years, and with Third Generation Partnership Project
(3GPP) activities for the past four years. He was the originator, co-inventor,
and the key contributor to the design and specification of GBT's Common
Packet Channel (CPCH) technology in the Universal Mobile Telecommunications
System (UMTS). Dr. Parsa was one of the architects of the Wideband Packet
CDMA Radio Transmission Technology (RTT), which was jointly submitted
to the International Telecommunication Union in January 2000 by American
standards bodies TR46.1 and T1P1.5. He led the merger of WP-CDMA and
W-CDMA on behalf of T1P1.5 and TR46.1. He has published more than thirty
papers on W-CDMA capacity optimization and wireless data. He holds more
than ten pending and issued patents in the W-CDMA and UMTS system. To
learn more about Dr. Parsa, please visit: www.3g-gprs.com/aboutus.html. MORE INFORMATION: For more information about the event, please contact Lynn A. DeNoia, Ph.D., Clinical Professor, Computer Science, in the Department of Engineering and Science at Rensselaer at Hartford, at (860) 548-7804 or e-mail: denoial@ewp.rpi.edu.
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