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Date: Friday, October 15, 2004
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Location: Tom Bradley International Center, UCLA Campus

RSVP

Guests are asked to Pre-register: To register for attendance at the upcoming research review, please fill out the RSVP form and complete the requested information.

Location:

CENS 2nd Annual Research Review will be held on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Tom Bradley International Hall located at 417 Charles E. Young Drive West at the intersection of Gayley and Strathmore Avenues. View a printable map of the UCLA Campus.

View an interactive, detailed map of the UCLA campus, Tom Bradley International Hall can be found by clicking on the Northwest selection of the campus map.

More information on UCLA and additional campus maps and information can be found on the UCLA Homepage.

Directions:

View driving directions to the UCLA campus on line.

Driving directions to conference site at the Tom Bradley International Hall:

From the 405 Freeway, take Wilshire Boulevard eastbound to Gayley Avenue and turn left. Take Gayley to Strathmore Avenue and enter the UCLA campus by turning right on Strathmore. There will be a parking garage (lot 8) on your right and Tom Bradley Center will be to your left. Signs will direct you to the parking garage and then from the parking garage to Tom Bradley International Hall.

Parking:

If you have a UCLA blue parking permit, please display it for free parking in the garage. Only blue permit parkers are eligible for free parking at a non-assigned parking area. All other UCLA personnel must park in their assigned lot and walk to Bradley Hall.

If you are attending from off-campus, please go to the parking kiosk located at Strathmore Avenue and Westwood Boulevard (one block up from Gayley Avenue). Tell the attendant that you are here for the “CENS Research Review” and they will give you a parking pass and direct you to the appropriate parking garage.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Hotel Accommodations:

A block of rooms has been reserved at:

Doubletree Hotel - Westwood
10740 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90024
310 475-8711

For reservations, please call 1-800-472-8556 or 310- 475-8711, ext.7117.

Please confirm your reservation with a credit card and identify the room block code as CENS Research Review. Hotel reservations must be made by September 30, 2004 to guarantee block rate.  Check-in time is 3:00pm and checkout time is 11:00am. Special rate includes the shuttle to & from campus and the hotel is walking distance to the UCLA campus.

The UC System rate is $110.00 single/double occupancy plus tax.

For hotel information on-line, visit the Doubletree website.

CENS 2nd Annual Research Review

We are pleased to announce that the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) 2nd Annual Research Review will be held on October 15, 2004 at the Tom Bradley International Center located on the UCLA campus. To find out more about CENS and its technology research, please visit our website homepage.

:: Agenda and Presentations
:: Posters

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Vinton G. Cerf,
Sr. Vice President of Technology Strategy, MCI

Vinton G. Cerf is senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI®. Cerf is responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. In the fast moving world of telecommunications and Internet technology development, technical capabilites can have a critical impact on the success of corporate business strategies including product and service development, infrastructure investment and strategic acquisitions and partnerships.

Previously, Cerf served as senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his partner, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet.

Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.

During his tenure from 1976-1982 with the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related data packet and security technologies.

Vint Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Cerf served as founding president of the Internet Society from 1992-1995 and in 1999 served a term as chairman of the Board. In addition, Cerf is honorary chairman of the IPv6 Forum, dedicated to raising awareness and speeding introduction of the new Internet protocol. Cerf has served as a member of the U.S. Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) from 1997 to 2001 and serves on several national, state and industry committees focused on cyber-security. Cerf sits on the Board of Directors for the Endowment for Excellence in Education, Folger Shakespeare Library, Gallaudet University, the MarcoPolo Foundation, Digex, Incorporated, Avanex Corporation, Nuance Corporation, CoSine Corporation and the Hynomics Corporation. Cerf is a Fellow of the IEEE, ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December, 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year's "25 Most Intriguing People."

In addition to his work on behalf of WorldCom and the Internet, Cerf has served as a technical advisor to production for "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict." and made a special guest appearance on the program in May 1998. Cerf has appeared on television programs NextWave with Leonard Nimoy and on World Business Review with Alexander Haig and Casper Weinberger. Cerf also holds an appointment as distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.

Cerf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary Doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; and University of Twente, Eschede, The Netherlands.