Keynotes & Invited Speakers

Grid-supported Communications Applications Tuesday, 28 October – 13:30-15:00 Gerald Labedz, Motorola Labs, labedz1@motorola.com

This invited talk will describe how emerging distributed computing systems could mutate into the communications systems of the future. Armed with high speed interconnect, and software elements that assign, track and charge for geographically distributed computing resources, these systems could just as easily compute and deliver an image to a remote location (for human communications) as perform an internal streaming file transfer. With this kind of capability not tied to the user's premises, customer equipment could be very asset light and still deliver very high end services like realtime processed video. Using as an example MIRAGE II, a data mining system with a geographically distributed, remotely computed Augmented Reality interface, a prototype built by Motorola in association with NCSA, Labedz will discuss the main hurdles along the way to communications systems dependent on real-time remote computing and high speed networks.

Speaker

Gerry Labedz has worked at Motorola for 28 years in the areas of mobile and cellular radio hardware and software. He worked on the first microprocessor controlled radio in the '70s, the first digital cellular system in the '80s, and the world's most accurate parallel-computed cellular system simulation tool in the '90s. He holds 23 patents in the areas of radio signaling, system design and visualization, and large-scale real-time simulation for cellular system control. During the 1990s, he and his group were the largest industrial users of the supercomputer facilities at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). He holds the title of Dan Noble Fellow, Motorola's highest technical honor. Most recently he has led a project centering on Hyperfast Computational Communications, or HyperComputiCations