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"Unhackable" Infineon Chip Physically Cracked

Feb 11, 2010 04:46 pm | PC World
A secure chip used for preserving secrets on PCs and protecting Microsoft technology has been physically compromised
by Alessondra Springmann

Former US military security specialist Christopher Tarnovsky found a weakness in Infineon's SLE66 CL PE and presented the results of his hack at the Black Hat 2010 computer security conference. The Infineon chip is used in PCs, satellite TV hardware, and gaming consoles to protect secure data.
Tarnovsky, who works for security firm Flylogic, said that cracking the Infineon chip, which has a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) designation, was a long processes involving an electronic microscope (retails for around $70,000). The attack on the chip took six months to plan and execute, and it included dissolving the outer part of the chip with acid and using tiny needles to eavesdrop on the chip's programming instructions.
Despite physically accessing the chip, Tarnovsky still had to navigate the chip's software defenses. According to the AP, Tarnovsky remarked that "This chip is mean, man--it's like a ticking time bomb if you don't do something right."
Does this mean that Infineon's flagship secure chip has been entirely compromised? Infineon was aware that a physical hack was possible, but that an attack of this variety would require resources beyond that of the typical cracker. Joerg Borchert, a VP of security at Infineon, told the AP that, as this attack requires physical access to the chip, a smart hacker, and expensive equipment, "the risk is manageable, and you are just attacking one computer."
Will we start seeing peripherals that for the Xbox that take advantage of this hack? Maybe, but don't count on it unless you know hackers who are willing to shell out almost $100,000 for the electron microscope and other equipment necessary for compromising the Infineon chip.

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چند روز پیش در کنفرانسی خبری، گوگل سرویس جدید خود با نام Google Buzz را معرفی کرد.
گوگل این سرویس جدید را با شعار راهی جدید برای به اشتراک گذاری معرفی کرده است. سرویس مذکور بلافاصله برای کاربران فعال شده است و امکان استفاده از آن وجود دارد. با این وجود گوگل خاطر نشان کرده است که این برنامه هنوز نهایی نشده است و توسعه آن کماکان ادامه دارد.

هدف گوگل آن است که Google Buzz را هرچه سریعتر به دیگر سرویس های خود متصل نماید. همچنین یک نسخه حرفه ای از Google Buzz راه اندازی می شود که به طور اختصاصی برای تاجران و شبکه های اقتصادی خواهد بود.

۵ قابلیت مهم در Google Buzz عبارتند از:

- Auto-following : شما به صورت خودکار افرادی را که بیشتر با آنها در تماس هستید، دنبال خواهید کرد.

- Rich, fast sharing experience : شما به آسانی می توانید فایل های خود را از هر سایتی به اشتراک بگذارید. بطور مثال به اشتراک گذاری تصاویر از Flickr برای دوستانتان.

- Public and private sharing : شما می توانید مطلبی را برای تمام دنیا به اشتراک بگذارید و یا یک گروه از کاربران مورد علاقه را مجاز به دسترسی به آنها نمایید.

- Inbox integration : بجای آنکه پیغام دریافت ایمیل برای شما ارسال شود، یک آلارم ویژه به صورت آنلاین شما را از تمامی تغییرات مطلع می سازد.

- Just the good stuff : این سرویس به صورت هوشمند فعالیت هایی را که بیشتر انجام می دهید برای شما در اولویت قرار می دهد و فعالیت های غیر مفید را به تدریج پنهان می کند.

هرچند که گوگل تمهیداتی را اندیشیده است که به وسیله آن کاربران خود می توانند مشخص نمایند چه افرادی به فایل های آنها دسترسی داشته باشند اما تنها سوالی که ذهن بسیاری از کارشناسان را به خود مشغول ساخته است مسئله حفظ حریم شخصی و اطلاعات خصوصی افراد است. پیش بینی می شود سرویس موج گوگل (Google Wave) نیز با این سرویس یکپارچه شود.

تا این لحظه Google Buzz از فیس بوک پشتیبانی نداشته است اما توییتر را می توانید به آن متصل نمایید. گفته می شود با استفاده از Google Buzz حتی هنگامی که کاربر در حال جستجو در سایت ها باشد، پیغام های توییتر برای او به نمایش در خواهند آمد.

آی فون، بلک بری و نوکیا S60 اولین موبایل هایی هستند که دارای برنامه های کاربری Google Buzz شده اند.

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http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/certified_ccies/worldwide.html

Though CCIEs are members of an exclusive group, they can be found in countries on every continent. Use the map and tables below to discover your peers around the world.



Americas
EMEA
Pacific Rim
Africa
Asia
Canada
Europe
Middle East
Pacific Islands
South America
United States

Total of Worldwide CCIEs: 20864 (last updated 2/5/2010) Total of Routing and Switching CCIEs: 17774 Total of Security CCIEs: 2393 Total of Service Provider CCIEs: 1752 Total of Storage Networking CCIEs: 150 Total of Voice CCIEs: 1180 Total of Wireless CCIEs: 20

Multiple Certifications: Many CCIEs have gone on to pass the certification exams in additional tracks, becoming a “multiple CCIE.” Below are selected statistics on CCIEs who are certified in more than one track. Total with multiple certifications worldwide:

2337 Total of Routing and Switching and Security CCIEs:
752 Total of Routing and Switching and Service Provider CCIEs:
690 Total of Routing and Switching and Storage Networking CCIEs:
34 Total of Routing and Switching and Voice CCIEs:
299 Total with 3 or more certifications

402

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Facebook hit with class action over privacy changes

Feb 16, 2010 08:09 pm | Computerworld
Recent modifications result in more information being shared by default, complaint alleges
by Jaikumar Vijayan

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Facebook over changes that the social networking site made to its privacy settings last November and December.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that the modifications have in reality reduced privacy protections for Facebook users rather than increasing it, as the company had claimed it would.
"Changes to the privacy settings that Facebook implemented and represented to increase User privacy had the outright opposite effect of resulting in the public dissemination of personal information that was originally private," the lawsuit claimed.
Facebook's messaging around the changes were "misleading, confusing and disingenuous," said the lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages from the company.
Facebook did not respond immediately for a request for comment.
The changes referred to in the lawsuit were made by Facebook as part of what it said was an attempt to give users greater control over their personal data.
As part of the revamp, Facebook introduced a privacy configuration wizard to allow users to set their privacy preferences. The company said the revisions would make it far simpler for users to set their privacy preferences and enable them to make more informed choices concerning the use of their personal data.
However, the lawsuit, which was filed by five Facebook users on behalf of all Facebook users, alleged that the company's modifications have only resulted in more personal data being pushed out to the Internet while making privacy options even harder to exercise.
Prior to Facebook's modifications last year, the only personal information that was available by default via public search was the user's name and the networks that the user belonged to. Users had the option of deciding whether they wanted other pieces of information, such as their photos an friend listings, available publicly the lawsuit said.
However, after the revision, the information that Facebook makes publicly available by default includes user names, photos, friend's listing, the names of any organizations and products that a user might support, as well as geographic data and other information.
In total there are at least 29 privacy settings spread out over numerous Web pages that users need to contend with, the lawsuit alleges. "The privacy setting procedures are grossly ineffective and users are misled into allowing Facebook to having their personal information easily accessed for commercial use, exposing them to identity theft, harassment, embarrassment, intrusion and all types of cybercrime," it says.
The revisions also caused privacy settings to default to a setting allowing more personal information than before to now be available to third-party application developers and search engines such as Google , the complaint alleged.
The one-click option that users had available previously for controlling third-party access to their personal data has been replaced by a more complicated opt-out process, and even then there is no realistic option for restricting third-party access to personal information, the suit says.

The complaints in the lawsuit echo concerns expressed by several privacy advocates immediately after Facebook announced its revamp. In a blog post , the Electronic Frontier Foundation f warned that the ostensible privacy changes were intended to push more user data out by default rather than less.
"The Facebook privacy transition tool is clearly designed to push users to share much more of their Facebook info with everyone, a worrisome development that will likely cause a major shift in privacy level for most of Facebook's users, whether intentionally or inadvertently," EFF wrote.
Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld . Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan or subscribe to Jaikumar's RSS feed . His e-mail address is jvijayan@computerworld.com .
Read more about privacy in Computerworld's Privacy Knowledge Center

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Vidyo packages conferencing for campuses

Feb 16, 2010 09:22 pm | IDG News Service
The videconferencing system is designed to work even with poor Internet connections
by Stephen Lawson

Startup Vidyo is now packaging its videoconferencing product for college campuses, which it sees as a natural setting for a system that can bring together multiple participants even on relatively thin network connections.
Vidyo offers videoconferencing based on lightweight software clients, using appliances based on standard rack-mounted servers. It can be delivered from within a customer's own data center or by an outside service provider, such as Google, which uses Vidyo's technology in its Google Chat video feature.
Although Vidyo is capable of delivering high-definition videoconferencing, and the company sells its own high-end room systems, it stands out by being able to offer multipoint sessions without the expensive infrastructure typically required for meetings of many people, analysts said. In addition, users don't need the latest PC nor a high-end Internet connection to join in. A Vidyo customer can also bring in users of other videoconferencing systems based on the H.263 and H.264 standards by using an optional gateway, said Marty Hollander, senior vice president of marketing.
With its new offering, VidyoCampus, universities can introduce this capability to their students, faculty and staff without making any capital investment, Hollander said. Instead, they can buy site licenses with prices based on the number of enrolled students. The smallest, a license for an institution with 5,000 students, costs about US$50,000 per year. The offering is available now.
Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois, has installed many different videoconferencing systems over the years but is now starting to use VidyoCampus, said Morteza Rahimi, vice president of information technology and chief technology officer. The most important benefit of Vidyo is that it's easy for users from Northwestern and their contacts around the world to start up and participate in a session without help from the university's technology staff.
"Where videoconferencing (usually) fails is that I have to somehow get our videoconferencing capabilities tied into somebody else's," Rahimi said. With Vidyo, all the IT staff needs to do is provide the client software and a username and password to users inside or outside the university. Those names and passwords can be cancelled when the user's privileges expire, such as when a student graduates, he said.
"Once they have the client on a laptop, they can come in from anywhere," Rahimi said. Northwestern has used Vidyo for sessions with research associates in China and the U.K., and with colleagues across the main campus in Evanston, Illinois, or on the university's Chicago medical campus. As the system is rolled out to students later this year, they will be able to chat visually with their parents, he said.
Rahimi said he is happy that Vidyo offers more flexibility and ease of use and is no more expensive than earlier videoconferencing systems Northwestern has bought
The system is being installed in the offices of many physicians at the medical campus, with video cameras that can be repositioned with a remote to cover just the doctor or a conference table full of people, said Frank Schleicher, IT director in the surgery department. He thinks Vidyo could aid in responding to epidemics, allowing doctors to quickly set up videoconferences with colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control, for example.

Vidyo's software can detect the processor, display and bandwidth characteristics of a given participant's system and automatically adapt to those limitations, Hollander said. A key part of that capability is the fact that is uses SVC (Scalable Video Coding), a part of the H.264 video standard that was approved in 2007.
SVC's ability to deliver decent video quality over networks with packet loss and no guaranteed bandwidth is a major advantage, according to Wainhouse Research analyst Andrew Davis. It may be good not only for companies that rely on the open Internet for videoconferencing but also for those with their own wide-area networks, he said.
"When you connect the New York operation with the Tokyo operation, a lot of times you have wide-area connections that are not as robust" as the enterprise LAN, Davis said.
Just as important, SVC-based systems let more than two people participate in a conference with much lower latency -- or much lower cost -- than do other platforms, according to Davis. That's because videoconferencing systems typically need an MCU (multiconference unit), a specialized hardware appliance that often is expensive and also can introduce processing delays, he said.
Vidyo isn't alone in using SVC. Radvision last year introduced an MCU that supports it, and Polycom announced on Tuesday that it will introduce an SVC system next year. Davis expects the standard to be widely adopted but believes big vendors will face a challenge in making SVC products compatible with older systems. Polycom said it will solve that problem.
Analyst Michael Howard of Infonetics Research said the approach Vidyo is pursuing may be the key to broad adoption of videoconferencing at last, including ad hoc sessions for purchase from service providers.
"I've been watching this for some time, expecting some kind of personal videoconferencing to have happened by now, but it hasn't," Howard said

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Security bug opens Google Buzz to hackers

Feb 16, 2010 07:12 pm | IDG News Service
The cross-site scripting flaw was discovered by the same person who hacked Miley Cyrus' e-mail
by Robert McMillan

A common Web programming error could give hackers a way to take over Google Buzz accounts, a security expert said Tuesday.
The flaw is a "medium-sized problem" with the Buzz for Mobile Web site, said Robert Hansen, CEO of SecTheory, who first reported the issue.
This type of Web programming error, called a cross-site scripting flaw, lets the attacker put his own scripting code into Web pages that belong to trusted Web sites such as Google.com. It is a fairly common flaw but one that can have major consequences when exploited on widely used Web sites.
The attacker "can force you to say things you don't want to say, to follow people," he said. "Whatever Google Buzz allows you to do, it allows him to do to you."
Because attackers can use the flaw to put their content on the Google.com domain, they could also create phishing attacks against Google users, Hansen said.
"If they left this unpatched, it could be horrible for any user of the site," he said. "It could easily be used to convince people that they're typing something into a valid Google sign-on page when they're really not."
The bug was discovered by a hacker known as TrainReq, who e-mailed Hansen details of the flaw without explanation. TrainReq is best known for posting photos stolen from pop star Miley Cyrus' e-mail account to the Internet.
Reached Tuesday afternoon Pacific Time, a Google spokesman confirmed that the company was working to fix the issue and predicted that it would be finished within a few hours.
"We're aware of a vulnerability that could affect users of Google Buzz for mobile, and we are now pushing a fix," spokesman Jay Nancarrow said via e-mail. "We have no indication that the vulnerability is being actively abused."
Launched last week, Google Buzz was blasted by some for automatically publishing lists of users' Gmail contacts with little notification. The company is making some changes this week to help alleviate those concerns.
However, the security flaw underscores another important issue, said Hansen, a vocal Google critic. "Google really can't be trusted with sensitive information because they can't protect their own applications.

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Toshiba unveils 2.5-in self-encrypting data center drives

Feb 16, 2010 07:21 pm | Computerworld
by Computerworld (US) staff

At the request of Computerworld, the story "Toshiba unveils 2.5-in, self-encrypting data center drives," which ran Tuesday, has been removed from the wire. The story is under embargo and was posted early in error. Online editors are asked to remove the story from their Web sites immediately, and print editors are asked not to use the story in print at this time. It will be reposted to the wire when the embargo expires. Questions regarding the story should be sent to Ken Mingis of Computerworld

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Cisco's Space Router Successfully Operates in Orbit



SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jan. 18, 2010 – Cisco announced today that its Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) technology has achieved a major milestone with the successful in-orbit test of the Cisco IOS® Software's networking capabilities and the company's on-board router. This is the first-ever deployment of an Internet Protocol (IP) router aboard a commercial GEO satellite. The technology was launched via Intelsat's IS-14 satellite on Nov. 23, 2009.
Facts:

• IRIS is a program to build a radiation-tolerant IP router for satellite and related spacecraft.
• The IRIS payload will support network services for voice, video and data communications, helping enable government agencies, military units and allied forces to communicate with one another using Internet Protocol and existing ground equipment.
• IRIS offers several enhancements over conventional satellite technology. With IRIS, users will be able to experience a true mobile network — one that helps enable them to connect and communicate how, when and where they want, and that continuously adapts to their needs without a reliance on predefined, fixed infrastructure.
• IRIS can route data to multiple ground receivers in a single step, eliminating the need to double-hop to a teleport and therefore reducing latency and increasing transponder utilization. The software on the Cisco® router and onboard modem can be upgraded in orbit, which increases flexibility and the return on investment.
• The IRIS program is a Department of Defense Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD) managed by Cisco and Intelsat General Corp. The IRIS payload will convert to commercial use following the three-month JCTD ending in April 2010.
• The in-orbit test was conducted using SEAKR Engineering Inc.'s Application Independent Processor (AIP) which was used to host the router and software-defined radio functions necessary for on-board routing, enabling satellite routing capabilities to be reconfigured and updated dynamically from the ground.
• Cisco will work with satellite manufacturers, system integrators and end users to help enable them to deliver services globally to points outside traditional ground-based networks.
• Intelsat, the world's leading provider of satellite services, will operate the IS-14 satellite carrying the IRIS hosted payload both during the JCTD test period and following the demonstration when the payload converts to commercial use.
• Space Systems/Loral is the world's leading provider of highly reliable commercial satellites enabling ubiquitous communications for the US government, television broadcasters, radio operators, mobile phone providers, and broadband services worldwide. The company integrated IRIS, as a "hosted payload" on a commercial satellite that it provided to Intelsat, the world's largest satellite services operator.
• The Defense Information Systems Agency will have overall responsibility for coordinating the demonstration of the IRIS technology among the government user community and for developing means of utilizing the IRIS capability.

Supporting Quotes:

• "This milestone is another step in our strategy to expand borderless networks into space and redefine how satellite communications are delivered. This technology can help transform satellite communications around the world by reducing latency and increasing the efficiency," said Steven Boutelle, vice president, Cisco Global Government Solutions Group.
• "Cisco's IRIS technology has the potential to transform how the government uses satellite services for military and other communications," said Michael Florio, JCTD operational manager, Space and Defense Battle Lab. "We are pleased to be working with Cisco and its partners to test and validate this transformational technology."
• "The IRIS demonstration is an important first step toward making Internet routing in space a reality that could ultimately enable the Intelsat system to make more efficient use of bandwidth," said Kay Sears, president of Intelsat General Corp. "By eliminating the need for routing at a ground-based teleport, we can dramatically increase the efficiency, flexibility and data throughput of satellite links."
• "Our ability to meet the demanding processing requirements and tight schedule is a testament to the scalability and flexibility of the AIP processing architecture. IRIS represents the most powerful reconfigurable processor ever flown, and was delivered on a time frame consistent with commercial communication satellite procurement," said Paul Murray, SEAKR's director of IP and Reconfigurable Processors
• "Commercial satellites offer a best value solution for quickly deploying important and innovative space-related technologies, such as IRIS," said Arnold Friedman, senior vice president, Sales & Marketing, Space Systems/Loral. "We have worked with Intelsat for more than four decades, providing a high-reliability platform for their services."

Supporting Resources:

• See a photo of the Intelsat satellite launch.
• See the IRIS modem and the IRIS router.
• For a video and more information on the IRIS partnership see: Cisco Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) - Industry Solutions - Cisco Systems
• Review the specifics of IRIS technology and learn more at: Industry First: Cisco Puts an Internet Router in Space -> Cisco News

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HOSSEIN ESLAMBOLCHI, PH.D






“Perhaps no one since Alexander Graham Bell, with his famous call to Thomas Watson, has led a more radical or intense telecom-related transformation program than Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi, AT&T’s transformation czar until the company was acquired by SBC Communications in late 2005."
—Telecom Asia
"[His] evangelizing has underscored the notion of where the entire communications, both wireless and wireless is heading in next decade..."
—Light Reading
"The technological strategist behind AT&T's ambitious turnaround plan to become a data transmission company selling an array of software products like network security systems."
—The New York Times
“A bold but pragmatic visionary ... a critical player in maintaining AT&T’s status as a technology leader."
—BusinessWeek

The quintessential telecommunications visionary, Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi champions the creation and delivery of pragmatic state-of-the-art transformational business strategies.
Dr. Eslambolchi, Chairman and CEO of 2020 Venture Partners, is recognized in the scientific community as one of the foremost thought-leaders and technological scientists of the high-tech age. He has been compared to GE's Jack Welch for his leadership in business transformation in the global communications industry, and to Thomas Alva Eddison for his significant scientific contributions in the field of IP and wireless communications.
INDUSTRY INNOVATION/INDUSTRY TRANSFORMATION
Dr. Eslambolchi's work on IP technologies includes a number of innovations in various fields. His work supports communications and worldwide IP infrastructure, technologies and applications. Dr. Eslambolchi has over 1000 patents issued, pending and in preparation under his name. These innovations have earned him the respect and admiration of fellow scientists and visibility amongst influential marketplace and public sector leaders. He is recognized by colleagues in global industry sectors as one of the technological geniuses behind the seamless, virtual, wireless IP world that is coalescing before our eyes.
Joining AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986, Dr. Eslambolchi rose to become Global Technology Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Global Chief Information Officer, President & CEO of ATT Labs and President & CEO of AT&T Global Network Services and was 16B officer of the company since 2001. He also served as a critical member of AT&T’s governing Executive Committee.
As the Chief Transformation Officer at AT&T he developed and executed a comprehensive four-stage strategy that created/reshaped the company's enterprise customer service, network transformation, services and cultural transformation: the overhaul and remodeling of the company that SBC dubbed the "new AT&T".
In less than 3 years, Dr. Eslambolchi's strategy led AT&T to over $10 billion in free cash flow and reduced the company's overall debt by over 85%. He left AT&T soon after its merger with SBC in January 2006.
CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS/EDUCATION
Dr. Eslambolchi's many roles and titles within AT&T made him responsible for the corporation's strategic technology direction, network operations, research and development, information technology systems and processes. Dr. Eslambolchi provided leadership for over 100,000 of the world’s best scientists, engineers, researchers, business development experts throughout global network operations including customer care operations.
In addition to having been the global CTO and CIO, he presided over AT&T's Global Networking Technology Services (GNTS) division and over AT&T Labs. As GNTS President, Dr. Eslambolchi had responsibility for the design, development, engineering, operations and reliability of AT&T's global network, as well as for its Global Network Operations Center – AT&T’s networking nerve center.
As President and CEO of AT&T’s Global Networking Technology Services, President and CEO of AT&T Labs and AT&T's Global Chief Information Officer, Dr, Eslambolchi had end-to-end responsibility for implementing the company’s technology and operational Information Technology vision of 21st century. As President and CEO of AT&T Labs, he led a team of some of the world’s best scientists and engineers in developing an architecture that transformed AT&T’s legacy voice and data networks into a converged IP/MPLS network that now reaches all major business centers around the globe.
As CIO, he provided the leadership that reengineered AT&T’s underlying information technology (IT) infrastructures with his unique Concept of One and Concept of Zero business processes. While moving AT&T’s legacy networks onto an IP/MPLS platform, he also directed the convergence of the operating support and customer service systems underlying the network, making AT&T the lowest-cost major carrier. This also improved cycle times and allowed customers unprecedented access to the network that permits them to monitor and control their services.
Dr. Eslambolchi is well-known in the scientific community for his expertise in IP network design and reliability, security, IP technologies, Services, IP applications and setting an industry vision for the "Concept of One" (do it once, do it right, use it everywhere), and the "Concept of Zero" (zero defects, zero cycle time and automate where possible), which have been used to streamline production across the company.
Additionally, Dr. Eslambolchi has developed a very unique model of complexity for Telecom: the "Eslambolchi Law of Complexity". This law states that, over time, complexity due to number of protocols along with interconnection of these protocols multiplied by the number of services will increase to a point that scale becomes a very difficult factor to manage in terms of cost, capability and cycle time. He has been advocating models to lower this complexity to a factor of one.
Information about the Eslambolchi Law, other scientific efforts, and his white papers can be found on World Wide Web.
Dr. Eslambolchi earned a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego with Post Doctorate studies in Communications.
MANAGEMENT STYLE
Dr. Eslambolchi boasts a rare combination of intelligence and approachability.
ComputerWorld considered him as one of the highest-IQs on the planet, a testament echoed by his previous CEO at AT&T, Dave Dorman, who described his IQ as "off-the-charts".
But for all his intelligence, his principal value is his people-sense, and he is well-regarded for the support and encouragement he provides to collaborators, colleagues and clients alike. "We need to create a workplace with the force of a gigantic magnet," he says, "A workplace that will draw employees in the morning and release them in the evening. A place where the atmosphere is electromagnetic."
PUBLIC SPEAKER AND AUTHOR
Dr. Eslambolchi is a sought-after public speaker, delivering numerous keynote speeches that define a compelling vision of technology's future.
His 2008 keynote speech at the TM Forum defined the way business transformation can occur to create revenue for companies worldwide. His other keynote presentations to business, scientific and technology-focused audiences advance a dynamic agenda that has become the transformational imprimatur for global communications technology in the new millennium. [See below for a comprehensive listing of past speeches, interviews, and articles.]
Dr. Eslambolchi is also an author; his recently published book, 2020 Vision, has proposed a new foundation for the communications industry over the next 2 decades. In it, he predicts that broadband wireless will eat IP and micro-transactions will dominate the industry's next decade. He is currently writing a second book on the world of IP and how it will impact the lives of every business and person on the planet.
AWARD-WINNER
Dr. Eslambolchi was nominated and is currently one of the finalists for the U.S. President's Science and Technology Medal for his significant contribution to the development of IP and wireless technologies as wells as IP security and reliability—the foundations of all IP-based applications over the global Internet.
He is also the recipient of a number of other prestigious awards and honors: most recently the 2008 IEEE Chairman Quality Award for his significant contribution to science and technology for improving the reliability of both wireless and wire-line IP networks worldwide; 2002 “Inventor of the Year” from the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame (along with Thomas Alva Edison and Albert Einstein); one of InfoWorld's “Top 25 Most Influential CTOs of 2005”; one of Cisco IQ Magazine's "10 Internet Business Leaders" of 2003; a Computerworld Magazine “Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2004"; 2003's number one "mover and shaker" in telecommunications by Light Reading; the prestigious Top Ten award from the Executive Council of New York in 2003; and the Encyclopedia Iranica Award in 2006 in recognition of his role as a prolific Iranian-American inventor and engineer.
GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY ADVISOR
He formed the Center for Network Systems which is now regarded as the main architect of a new education vision for the field of engineering in the United States. He collaborated with Governor Rick Perry of Texas to develop similar programs for three major Texas universities in 2005. Dr. Eslambolchi has served as advisor to the Johns Hopkins School of Engineering before he left AT&T in 2006. He was also tapped by President Clinton in 1996 to lead the use of innovative technologies for disabled Americans as part of the Disability Act of 1996.
During his tenure as Chief Technology Officer at AT&T, Dr. Eslambolchi advised top industry leaders on the transformation and implementation of strategic technology vision from 2001-2005. Early on, he predicted that "IP will eat everything", and advocated an architecture that would allow services to run on IP and work together with connectivity to any device. He called this concept "Intelligent Network/Smart Device" which has been a widely accepted model for innovation across the globe.
CURRENT ACTIVITIES
Dr. Eslambolchi is currently Chief Technical Advisor for Ericsson Inc., helping the company build a worldwide communications ecosystem converging wire line and wireless using IP based technologies.
He serves on the board of directors of Packet Design, the UK-based Telemanagement Forum, and two Silicon Valley start-ups, Verinext and Mytopia. serves as Chief Technology & Business Strategy advisor for Intelliden, Chief Technology Advisor for Ditech Networks, Chief Technology & Strategy Advisor for Avalon Global Solutions, Chief Strategy, Business and Technical Advisor for Allegis Capital VC. He is a member of board of trustees for SUSMA, and Technical Advisor to the University of California School of Engineering, where he founded a center for spurring the convergence of various engineering fields, including nano-engineering.

REFERENCES

• Eslambolchi’ s Forbes profile, with data from Hemscott
• Dr. Eslambolchi has a personal web site with more information. Visit LEARN IP NETWORK SECURITY, INDUSTRY INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION

UPCOMING SPEECHES
Dr. Eslambolchi's keynote speeches through March of 2010:

• 4G Wireless Conference – Chicago, September 15th, 2009
• Competitive Advantage - Dallas, November 3-4, 2009
• TMF Conference - Orlando, December 2009
• IEEE Globecom Conference - Honolulu, December 2009
• Corporate Venture & Innovation Conference – Newport Beach, February 2010
• TMF Regional Forum – Johannesburg, South Africa, February 2010
• 3GSM Conference – Barcelona, Spain – February 2010
• TMF Regional Forum - Dubai, UAE - March, 2010

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Siavash M. Alamouti

Intel Fellow, Intel Architecture Group
Chief Technology Officer, Mobility Wireless Group
INTEL CORPORATION

Siavash M. Alamouti is an Intel Fellow in the Intel Architecture Group and chief technology officer for the Mobile Wireless Group, responsible for all wireless standards with a product roadmap at Intel Corporation. This includes the WiMAX Forum, IEEE 802.16, 3GPP, OMA, WiFi Alliance and IEEE 802.11. He is also known as the technical champion of WiMAX technology at Intel.
Prior to joining Intel in 2004, Alamouti worked for Vivato Inc., Cadence Design Systems, AT&T Wireless Services and MPR Teltech Ltd. in various engineering roles.
Alamouti completed his graduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He is recognized by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the best 57 papers in the past 50 years of the Society’s history. He is most well known for the invention of "the Alamouti code" which is included in a number of wireless standards.
Alamouti holds more than 20 patents in the areas of wireless communications and wireless systems design. He has authored many publications and technical reports in the last decade for the IEEE Communications Society and other organizations that have reached professional audiences both nationally and internationally.

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Kaveh Pahlavan
Professor of ECE and CS,
Director of CWINS Courses

• EE 3308: Introduction to Wireless Networks
• EE 506: Introduction to Local and Wide Area Networks
• EE 538: Wireless Information Networks
• EE539: Mobile Data Networking
• Other Courses

Areas of Interest

• Broadband and adhoc wireless networks, indoor geolocation, data communications, information networks.

Experience

• 2004 (Fall): On Sabbatical Leave, Olin College, Needham, MA
• 2001: Visiting Professor of Telecommunication Lab and CWC, University of Oulu, Finland
• 2000: Visiting Professor as a Fulbright-Nokia fellow, University of Oulu, Finland
• 1999-present: Professor of CS, WPI
• 1999: Visiting Professor as a Nokia fellow, University of Oulu, Finland
• 1995: Director WLRL, a wireless LAN industry sponsored laboratory, WPI
• 1993-1996: Weston Hadden Professor of ECE (for three years), WPI
• 1991-present: Director of CWINS, WPI
• 1990-present: Professor of ECE, WPI
• 1987-1990: Associate Professor of ECE, WPI
• 1985-1987: Assistant Professor of ECE, WPI
• 1983-1985: Director of Advanced Developments, INFINET Inc., Andover, MA
• 1979-1983: Assistant Professor of ECE, Northeaster University, Boston, MA

Other Industrial Experiences

• Has served as a consultant for the design and analysis of wireless networks in numerous companies including DEC, GTE Laboratories, WINDATA, Motorola/Codex, BBN, Mitre Corp., Skyhook Wireless, and 3COM in MA, Honeywell Avionics Systems (AZ), Jet Propulsion Laboratories (CA), NokiaMobile Phones (Finland), NTT (Japan), Savi Technologies (CA), RadioLAN (CA), LK-Products (Finland), Elektrobit (Finland), TEKES (Finland), United Technology Research Center (CT). He has also served as a member of the board of several start up companies.

Recent Honors

• 2003: Lead the US review team for midterm evaluation of the TEKES R&D program NETS in Finland.
• 2001: Awarded the first Fulbright-Nokia Scholarship to work at the University of Oulu, Finland.
• 2000: Lead the American team to review the Finnish Academy and TEKES R&D Programs in Electronics and Telecommunication: ETX, TLX, INVITE and Telectronics (the book report is cited in the publications).
• 1999: Awarded the Nokia fellowship (the first Non-Finn to receive the award)
• 1997: Selected as a committee member of the Evolution of Untethered Communications Committee at the National Research Council to foresee the future directions for DARPA research in wireless networks (the book report is cited in the publications).
• 1996: Elected as a fellow of the IEEE for contributions in wireless networks.
• 1993-1996: Selected as the first Weston Hadden Professor of ECE, WPI

Recent Professional Activities/Awards

• Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, the first journal in modern wireless networks established in 1994.
• Member of the advisory board of the IEEE Wireless Magazine.
• General Chair, The Second International Conference on Mobile Adhoc Sensor Systems (MASS05), Washington, DC, Nov. 7-10, 2005.
• Co-chair, the International Workshop on Utra Wideband Systems, Oulu, Finland, June 2-5, 2003
• Co-chair of the International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Network (IWWAN), Oulu, Finland, June 1-3, 2004.
• Co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Portable, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) that started in 1989. Also, technical program chair and Organizer of PIMRC’92 (Boston, MA) and PIMRC’98 (Boston, MA) and N. American liaison and co-chair for 1991 (London, UK), 1993 (Yokohama, Japan), 1994 (Hague, Netherlands), 1995 (Toronto, Canada), 1996 (Taipei, Taiwan), 1997 (Helsinki, Finland), 1999 (Osaka, Japan), 2001 (London, UK), and 2002 (Lisbon, Portugal). This conference is one the oldest and most prestigious wireless conferences and the official choice of the IEEE Communication Society.
• Founder, Organizer, and Program Chairman, IEEE workshop on Wireless Local Area Networks, 1991 (Worcester, MA), 1996 (Worcester, MA) and 2001 (Newton, MA). This is the oldest IEEE sponsored WLAN conference.
• Technical program committee member and co-founder of the IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, 1990 (UK), 1992 (Japan), 1994 (Finland), 1996 (Germany), 1998 (S. Africa), 2000 (US).
• Technical program committee member of numerous other international conferences.

Education:

• 1979: Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts.
• 1975 - 1976: Graduate Student in Digital Systems, University of Oklahoma.
• 1975: M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Teheran, Teheran, Iran.

Publication/Presentation:

• SUMMARY: He has given invited visionary keynote lectures and tutorials in numerous countries in the major academic institutions (such as MIT, Stanford, ETH in Switzerland, and Delft U. Of Tech. in the Netherlands) and industrial research institutions (such as David Sarnoff Research laboratories, NTT Laboratories in Japan, Nokia research laboratories in Finland) and international conferences. He is the principal author of the Wireless Information Network, John Wiley and Sons, 1995 (co-authored by Dr. Allen Levesque of the GTE Laboratories), which is the first comprehensive text book published on the modern WIN systems and the Principles of Wireless Networks - A Unified Approach, Prentice Hall 2002 (co-authored by Prof. P. Krishnamurthy of the University of Pittsburgh). He has also contributed to a number of book chapters, more than 150 technical papers and two patents. He has supervised the research efforts of numerous Ph.D., M.S. and undergraduate students in wireless information networks.

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Ghavam Shahidi
IBM Fellow and director, silicon technology


Research lab: Watson Research Center (Yorktown)

Ghavam joined IBM Research in 1989. There, he initiated the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) development program. Once the team demonstrated the device design and 5 in. SOI material, the group was moved to IBM Microelectronics and the Advanced Silicon Technology Center (ASTC). Over the next few years, Ghavam led the development of SOI CMOS technology at ASTC. This work resulted in the development of 8-in. SOI technology infrastructure; the demonstration of SOI performance gain; qualification of multiple CMOS SOI technologies and their transfer to manufacturing; establishment of design infrastructure; and the first mainstream use of SOI. He remained with IBM Microelectronics as the director of high-performance logic development until 2003.

Ghavam received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical engineering, from MIT

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Vahid Tarokh, 34

MIT
Telecommunications

Iran native Vahid Tarokh works so quickly that by the time people apply his advances, he is often on to something else. Such is the case with his breakthrough codes to improve the speed, capacity and clarity of wireless voice and data communications. He developed the codes in 1996 at AT&T Labs, yet U.S. and international telecom standards bodies didn’t adopt them until 1999.Tarokh’s codes solved the problem of how best to get a signal from a base station to a cellular phone without fading. Solutions proposed by others, such as adding an extra antenna to the phone or sending the same signal on different frequencies, weren’t practical, so he created algorithms whereby multiple antennas at the base station could send the same signal simultaneously on the same frequency. For two months Tarokh worked day and night handcrafting his solution on huge sheets of paper. He moved to MIT in 2000 to work on “orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,” an advanced scheme for wide- band wireless communications. This summer Tarokh joins Harvard University as an electrical engineering professor

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Hamid Jafarkhani

Chancellor's Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Deputy Director, Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing
Director, Networked Systems Program

Honors and Awards

• Awarded the title of Chancellor's Professor, 2009.
• Top 10 most-cited researchers in the field of "computer science" during 1997-2007.
• Invited to participate in the National Academy of Engineering's 2008 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering.
• Listed as a highly cited researcher in http://www.isihighlycited.com.
• School of Engineering Fariborz Maseeh Best Faculty Research Award, 2007.
• The IEEE Marconi Best Paper Award in Wireless Communications, 2006.
• UCI Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, 2006-2007.
• Sole author of a paper selected by ESI as an Emerging Research Front in the field of Engineering, 2006.
• Fellow of the IEEE, 2006.
• NSF Faculty Career Award, 2003.
• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Advances in Wireless Communications, 2002.
• Texas Instruments DSP fellowship, 1996.
• The 1995 Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge, American Division Award.
• University of Maryland graduate school fellowship, 1993 and 1994.
• Ranked first in the nationwide entrance examination of universities, 1984

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http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/benfathi/
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/execs/fathi-ben.html

Ben Fathi

Corporate Vice President of Development, Windows Core Operating System Division




Updated: July 28, 2008
Ben Fathi is corporate vice president of development for the Windows Core Operating System Division at Microsoft Corp. He oversees the development of core technologies, including the kernel and hypervisor, as well as networking, device, storage, file system, setup and deployment software that are used in all versions of Microsoft Windows.
Fathi previously served as corporate vice president of the Security Technology Unit, where he was responsible for delivery of all core security technologies, including the authentication, authorization and audit capabilities of Microsoft products; Windows Rights Management Services; BitLocker drive encryption; and anti-virus, anti-spyware and network security protocols. Fathi also managed the Security Engineering and Communications team, the Security Response Center and the Security Outreach team, all of which focus on helping protect customers from online security threats.
Before joining the STU, Fathi was general manager for storage and high availability in the Windows Division, where he directed the development of storage, file systems, file protocols and clustering technologies for the operating system. He also was responsible for the Windows file server, network attached storage and branch office businesses.
Fathi has worked in the computer industry for 25 years, almost entirely on development of operating systems. Before joining Microsoft in 1998, he was director of operating systems at Silicon Graphics Inc.
He holds a master's degree in computer science, as well as bachelor's degrees in computer science and psychology, from the University of Massachusetts.
Fathi is married and has a daughter