The Third International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks
(QShine 2006)
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Nicholas F. Maxemchuk
Reliable Neighborcast: A New Communications Paradigm for Vehicle-to-Vehicle Applications
Nick Maxemchuk received the B.S.E.E. degree from the City College of New York, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pannsylvania.
For the past 5 years he has been a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia University. Prior to joining Columbia he spent 25 years at Bell Labs and AT&T Labs, as a member of the technical staff, department head, and technical leader. Prior to joining Bell Labs, he spent 8 years at the RCA David Sarnoff Research center, as a member of the technical staff.
Most of his research has been in computer-communications networks. Among his accomplishments: In the early 70's he invented dispersity routing, which has recently been applied to ad hoc networks; in 1983 he designed and implemented the first reliable broadcast protocol, before the introduction of multicast; in the mid 80's he invented the Manhattan Street Network and applied deflection routing to the regular topology; and, in the early 90's he pioneered the first modern application of steganography and applied it to the first issue of an IEEE publication that was distributed on the WEB.
He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and the JACM, was on the founding committee of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and served on their steering committee for 11 years.In 2006 he received the Koji Kobayashi Award for his work in computer communications. He has also been awarded the IEEE's Leonard G. Abraham Prize Paper Award in 1985 and 1987, for his papers on data and voice on CATV networks and the Manhattan Street networks, and the William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award in 1997, for his paper on an anonymous credit card. He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 1989, and was cited for his work on metropolitan area networks.
Dr. Mischa Schwartz
Learning from the Past: "Wired City" to Wireless Society
Mischa Schwartz received the B.E.E. degree from Cooper Union in 1947, the M.E.E degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1949, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Harvard University in 1951.
He was with the Sperry Gyroscope Company from 1947-1952. From 1952 to 1974 he was Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, serving as Head of the Electrical Engineering Department from 1961 to 1965. He joined Columbia University in September 1974 as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was subsequently named Charles Batchelor Professor of Electrical Engineering and retired in July 1996 as Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering.
During his distinguished academic career, Dr. Schwartz visited laboratories including the Laboratoire de Physique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France as an NSF Science Faculty Fellow during 1965-66; IBM Research as a Visiting Scientist in the calendar year 1980; Nynex Science and Technology as a Resident Consultant during 1986; IBM Research during 1994 as a half-time researcher; University College London as a Visiting Professor under an EPSRC Visiting Fellowship and ATT Bell Laboratories as a half-time consultant during 1995; and, UC San Diego as a Visiting Professor during the winter quarter of 1997.
Dr. Schwartz is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is a Life Fellow and former Director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), formerly Chairman of its Information Theory Group, and past President of the IEEE Communications Society. He is author or coauthor of ten books and over 170 technical publications on communication theory and systems, signal processing, wireless communications, and computer communication networks. He is on the editorial boards of Networks, Journal of Telecommunication Systems, Journal on Wireless Networks, Mobile Networks and Applications, Mobile Computing and Communications Review, and the Japanese journal IEICE Transactions on Communications. He is on the Advisory Board of the international Journal for Communications and Networks (JCN). He was a recipient of a Distinguished Visitor Award in 1975 from the Australian-American Education Foundation and was invited as a Distinguished Visiting Scientist to the NTT Research Laboratories in Japan in 1981. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the International Engineering Foundation, and past Chairman, Commission C, U.S. National Committee/URSI.
In 1983, Dr. Schwartz received the IEEE Education Medal. Columbia awarded him its Great Teacher medal in 1983. In 1984, the IEEE Centennial year, Dr. Schwartz was cited as one of the 10 all-time outstanding Electrical Engineering educators. He served from 1985-1988 as founding Director of the Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research (CTR), one of six national Engineering Research Centers established in 1985 under major grants of the National Science Foundation. In 1986, Dr. Schwartz was the recipient of the Cooper Union Gano Dunn Award, given annually for outstanding achievement in Science and Technology. In 1989 he received the IEEE Region I Award for outstanding engineering management and leadership. He received the IEEE Communications Society Edwin H. Armstong Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to Communications Technology in 1994. In 1995 he received the Mayor's Award for Excellence in Science and Technology, New York City. He received the Eta Kappa Nu Distinguished Member Award in 1999. In 2000 he received the IEEE Millenium Award Medal. In 2003 he was awarded the Okawa Prize of the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications, Japan, for contributions to communication theory, computer networks, and engineering education.