AustinCOMSOC/SP

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Spring Planning MeetingSep 8, 2012

San Marcos, TX

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Austin Leadership Team

Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman) Hanan Potash (Vice Chair) Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison) Kwok Wu (Treasurer) Syed Shah (Secretary) Mahdy Saedy (Technical Program, Mem. Dev.) Richard Penshorn (Web Master, Soc Media) Behrang Nosrat-Makouei (University Outreach) Saurabh Sureka (Member at-large) Tim Raper (Member at-large)

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Austin Chapter Updates

Feb. 6, Outreach program: Career Fair “Coast-To-Coast”

Feb 23-24, Support CTS/eWeek

Jun 11-15, Support Globecom2014 @ ICC12

August 6-9 “NI Week – Texas Day“ NOV 12 Home Networking Summit & Distinguished Guest Lecturer

Nov 13Distinguished Lecture – Dr. Mischa Dohler

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Austin Career Fair

Feb. 6, 2012

30 names were added to IEEE COMSOC

Holiday Inn Austin Midtown

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NIWEEK

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2012 Austin COMSOC/SP Meetings

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SWOT Analysis

Strengths AT&T Facility Students outreach

Weaknesses Connection with local communities vTools vs Eventbrite

Opportunities Collaboration with UT students Home Networking Summit

Threats Too many forms. Need simplification

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Home Networking SummitDate: Nov.12, 2012, Location: 7700 ParmerTarget: 150 Persons

Objectives:The objectives of the workshop is to provide a forum of learning, dialog and networking regarding home networking marketing and technological trends, evolved architecture solutions and services and identify and demonstrate what is currently available.

Technical Key TopicsMobile Device, Platform and Application Mobile platform and mobile applications Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, protocols, applications Mobile cloud computing / platform issues and techniquesHome Automation Standards 802.11n/ac/WiGiG, 3G/4G-LTE/Femto, xDSL/PON/FTTH/G.FASTWireless Communications Modulation, coding and diversity techniques MIMO and multi-antenna communications OFDM and multi-carrier systemsConverged Network Architecture for Cloud Services Wireless media gateway and vehicular communications Networked home security & safety surveillance Smart energy and home automation Health monitoring and management Multimedia Networking, Services and Applications Compression, video streaming and quality of service Development kits, software package and solutions Practical tips on maintaining secure home network

Guest Speaker - Dr. Mischa DohlerDr. Mischa Dohler is the Head of Intelligent Energy Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), in Barcelona, Spain. He has published around 150 technical journal and conference papers and participated in ETSI, IETF and other standardization activities.  

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Austin Chapter Plans / Issues

Issues: Lack of comprehensive GOTO sources

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