Information & Telecommunication Technology Center
Nichols Hall - University of Kansas
2291 Irving Hill Road
Lawrence, Kansas 66044-7541

Sprint Research Symposium 2000

8-9 March 2000

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8

7:45 AM - 8:30 AM         REGISTRATION

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM         OPENING: Victor Frost, ITTC
                                         WELCOME: Chancellor Hemenway, University of Kansas

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM       SESSION 1: USER EXPERIENCE, Session Moderator -- Tim Euler

• Ambient Computational Environments
  Gary Minden, ITTC, University of Kansas

• Broadband and the Changing User Access Experience
  Bill Lehr, MIT

  10:00 AM - 10:30 AM       BREAK

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM       SESSION 2: TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, Session Moderator -- Nail Akar

• The Role of the Host in Supporting the Full Service QoS Enabled Network
  Yoram Bernet, Microsoft

• Finding You Shade of Grey on the Network Spectrum
  Towela Nyirenda, ITTC, University of Kansas

• Traffic Engineering for IP Networks
  Sunny Siu, MIT

  12:00 PM - 1:00 PM         LUNCH

  1:00 PM - 3:00 PM           SESSION 3: MOBILITY TECHNOLOGY, Session Moderator -- Rick Lett

• Next Generation Support for Mobility
  David Levine, Washington University, St Louis

• Services Programming for 3G (and Beyond) IP Mobile Networks
  Steve Weinstein, NEC

• IP Mobility Always On, Everywhere
  Emad Qaddoura, Nortel

• Broadband Wireless Local Loop
  Joe Evans, ITTC, University of Kansas

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM          BREAK

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM          SESSION 4: NETWORK INTELLIGENCE AND DIRECTORY SERVICES, Session Moderator -- Ananth Nagarajan

• Policy-Based and Directory Enabled Networks
  Eric Burkholder, Novell

• Personal Ontologies for Web Search and Caching
  Susan Gauch, ITTC, University of Kansas

• Middle Boxes
  Lixia Zhang, UCLA

• Microsoft's Active Directory Services
  Austin Wilson, Microsoft

  5:00 PM - 5:30 PM         OPEN DISCUSSION

  6:00 PM         Reception, Bruckmiller Room, Adams Alumni Center (cash bar)

  7:00 PM         Dinner, Bruckmiller Room, Adams Alumni Center
                         Dinner Speaker: Charles Ranson, President, Kansas, Inc.
                         The Heartland Adapts to a Technology Future

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  THURSDAY, MARCH 9

  8:00 AM - 8:30 AM            Continental Breakfast

  8:30 AM - 10:00 AM         SESSION 5: NEXT GENERATION WIRELESS, Session Moderator -- Tom Davis

• Next Generation Broadband Wireless Systems
  Jim Hannan and Khurram Sheikh, Sprint

• "Free Bits" Over the Air:  The Challenge of the Wireless Internet
  Roy Yates, WINLAB, Rutgers University

• Routing for Mobile Appliances:  Make Wireless Internet Open
  H.T. Kung, Harvard

  10:00 AM - 10:30 AM         BREAK

  10:30 AM - 12:00 PM         SESSION 6: OPTICAL NETWORKING, Session Moderator -- Mir Islam

• Future of Optical Networks at NRL
  Hank Dardy, NRL

• IP Over WDM Integration Strategies
  Nasir Ghani, Nokia

Ken Demarest, ITTC, University of Kansas

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM             TOURS OF ITTC LABORATORIES

Workshop Organizers

Tom Davis, Victor Frost, Mir Islam, and Rick Lett

For Additional Information

Victor S. Frost
Director
Information & Telecommunication Technology Center
University of Kansas
2291 Irving Hill Road
Lawrence, Kansas 66044
Phone - 785-864-4833
Email - frost@ittc.ku.edu

Revised 17 April 2000 by Doug Herbers