Challenges
Conference Presentations
Molecular Communication
Dr. Tatsuya Suda, University of California, Irvine
Biography
Tatsuya Suda received the B.E., M.E., and Dr.E. degrees in applied
mathematics and physics from Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1977,
1979, and 1982, respectively.
From 1982 to 1984, he was with the Department of Computer Science,
Columbia University, New York, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate.
Since 1984, he has been with the Department of Information and
Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, where he is
currently a Professor. He has also served as a program director of
the Networking Research Program at the National Science Foundation
from Oct. '96 through Jan., '99. He received an IBM postdoctoral
fellowship in 1983. He was the Conference Coordinator from 1989 to
1991, the Secretary and Treasurer from 1991 to 1993, the Vice Chairman
from 1993 to 1995, and the Chairman from 1995 to 1997 of the IEEE
Technical Committee on Computer Communications. He was also the
director of the U.S. Society Relations of the IEEE Communications
Society from 1997 to 1999. He is an editor of the IEEE/ACM
Transaction on Networking, a senior technical consultant to the IEEE
Transaction on Communications, a former Editor of the IEEE Transaction
on Communications and is an Area Editor of the International Journal
of Computer and Software Engineering. He is a member of the
Editorial Board of the Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics
Engineering, Wiley and Sons. He was the Chair of the 8th IEEE
Workshop on Computer Communications and the TPC co-chair of the IEEE
Infocom 97. He was a visiting associate professor at the University
of California, San Diego, a Hitachi Professor at the Osaka University
and currently is a NTT Research Professor.
He has been engaged in research in the fields of computer
communications and networks, high speed networks, multimedia systems,
ubiquitous networks, distributed systems, object oriented
communication systems, network applications, performance modeling and
evaluation, and application of biological concepts to networks and
network applications.
Dr. Suda is a fellow of IEEE and a member of ACM.
Abstract
This presentation focuses on an entirely new area of nano scale
communications. The presentation discusses how nano-scale biological
entities (such as cells, bacteria) communicate and how the communication
mechanisms that such entities use may be applied to enable soft nano
machines (i.e., nano machines that are made of biological materials) to
communicate. The presentation also discusses an emerging new idea of using
moleculars (such as DNAs and proteins) as a communication medium between
soft nano machines, not the radio wave nor the light wave that are used in
the current communication systems.
Challenges in utlizing wireless technologies for independent and
assisted living
Dr. Jennifer Hou, University of Illinois
Biography
Jennifer C. Hou received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 1993. She
is current a professor in the Department of Computer Science at University
of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Prior to joining UIUC, she was an
assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison in
1993-1996, and an assistant/associate professor at Ohio State University
in 1996-2001. Hou has worked on several federally and industry funded
projects in the areas of network modeling and simualtion, network
measurement and diagnostics, and enabling software and wireless techniques
for assisted living. She is the Technical Program Co-chair of 27th IEEE
INFOCOM: Conference on Computer Communications 2008, First International
Wireless Internet Conference 2005, ACM/IEEE Information Processing in
Sensor Networks 2004, and IEEE Real-time Applicatoin and Technology
Symposium 2000. She has also served on the editorial board of IEEE Trans.
on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, ACM/Kluwer Wireless
Networks, ACM Trans. on Sensor Networks, and Foundations and Trends in
Networking. Hou is a recipient of the Lumley Research Award from Ohio
State University in 2001 and an NSF CAREER award in 1996. She is a senior
member of IEEE and a member of ACM.
Abstract
The aging of baby boomers has become a social and economical challenge.
According to MIT's magazine TECHNOLOGY REVIEW, July/August 2003, ``In the
United States alone, the number of people over age 65 is expected to hit
70 million by 2030, doubling from 35 million in 2000, and similar
increases are expected worldwide''. Along with the increase of popularity
of elderly people, the expenditures of the United States for health-care
will grow projecting to rise to 15.9% of the GDP ($2.6 trillion) by 2010
(Digital 4Sight's Healthcare Industry Study). Unless the cost of senior
care can be significantly reduced by technological means, it could
bankrupt the already shaky social security and Medicare systems.
Motivated by the need for senior care, technology companies such as ADT,
General Electric, Honeywell, Intel and Philips Medical Systems, have seen
see an opportunity to leverage the wireless technology for improving
seniors' quality of life without taking away their independence. Now the
question is --- how do we develop an assisted-living supportive software
infrastructure that allows disparate technologies, software components,
and wireless devices of different protocol families to work together in a
low cost, dependable, and secure fashion with predictable properties? In
this panel, I will present a set of challenges which we have to tackle in
order to make the opportunity a reality.