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Mr. Richard A. Clarkeis an internationally recognized expert on security, including homeland security, national security, cyber security, and counterterrorism. He is currently an on-air consultant for ABC News.Clarke served the last three Presidents as a senior White House Advisor. Over the course of an unprecedented 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the titles of:
During the Bush (41) Administration, he was Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990-1991 Gulf War and the subsequent security arrangements. As Chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, Clarke advises clients on a range of issues including:
Dr. Gwo-Jiunn Huang
Dr. Wen Chenis a Fellow of Cisco Systems, Inc. providing leadership in Video Technology. Prior to joining Cisco, Dr. Chen was Board Director and CTO of Komodo Technology (acquired by Cisco in 2000) responsible for packet telephony and strategic business developments. Prior to joining Komodo, he was Founder, Chairman of the Board and President of V-Bits (acquired by Cisco in 1999), where he pioneered in the development of the RateMux digital grooming and splicing system. Prior to founding V-Bits, he was Founder and Executive Vice President of Compression Labs (CLI), where he pioneered in the development of video conferencing products including VTS1.5, Rembrandt and Cameo and broadcast TV products including SpectrumSaver and MPEG-2 Magnitude. CLI subsequently merged with Vtel as Forgent in 1997. During the time he was with CLI, he also served as Adjunct Professor at San Jose State University for fifteen years.Dr. Chen is a pioneer in the field of digital image coding and has received numerous image coding achievement awards. His accomplishments include the invention of several ground breaking technologies, such as the Slant Transform for image coding, fast computational algorithm and convolution theorem for Discrete Cosine Transform, Combined Symbol Matching (CSM) for facsimile coding, and Scene Adaptive Coding (SAC) for photo and video coding. The inventions are cornerstone for nearly all the digital video products in the world ranging from digital camera, videophone, video conferencing codec, digital broadcast TV, to digital HDTV. The CSM has been adopted by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) as the Group IV facsimile coding standard. The essential part of the SAC has also been adopted by ITU as the H.261, H.262, H.263 and H.264 standards and by ISO as the JPEG and MPEG standards. Dr. Chen received his Bachelors degree from National Taiwan University, his Masters degree from Kansas State University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, all in Electrical Engineering. He is a member of SJSU EE Department Advisory Council, an honorary board member of Chinese Information Networking Association, a lifetime member of North American Taiwanese Engineers’ Association, a member of ITRI Technical Advisory Committee, and a member of the Advisory Boards of Cradle Technologies, MedioStream, VisualOn and IMscape. In 1995, he was elected as a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the video coding technologies and their commercial applications.
Dr. Tsuhan Chenhas been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since October 1997, where he is currently a Professor. He directs the Advanced Multimedia Processing Laboratory, striving to turn multimedia technologies from science fiction into reality. He also established and is the current director of the "ITRI Lab at CMU," a collaborative research laboratory sponsored by Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). His research interests include multimedia signal processing and communication, implementation of multimedia systems, multimodal biometrics, audio-visual interaction, pattern recognition, computer vision and computer graphics, bioinformatics, and building collaborative virtual environments. From August 1993 to October 1997, he worked in the Visual Communications Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, and later at AT&T Labs-Research, Red Bank, New Jersey, as a senior technical staff member and then a principle technical staff member.Tsuhan helped create the Technical Committee on Multimedia Signal Processing, as the founding chair, and the Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, both in the IEEE Signal Processing Society. His endeavor later evolved into founding of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, both joining the efforts of multiple IEEE societies. He is appointed the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia for 2002-2004. Before serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, he also served in the Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine and as Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, and IEEE Trans. on Multimedia. He has co-edited a book titled Advances in Multimedia: Systems, Standards, and Networks. Tsuhan received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. He received the Charles Wilts Prize for outstanding independent research in Electrical Engineering leading to a Ph.D. degree at the California Institute of Technology. He has published more than a hundred of technical papers and holds fifteen U.S. patents. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, titled "Multimodal and Multimedia Signal Processing," from 2000 to 2003.
Dr. David B. Chungis a Sr. Display Manager at Intel Corp. He has over 25 years of engineering experience in manufacturing, processing and R&D work in the display industries. Besides working for several U.S. LCD companies, he has set up an LCD manufacturing line in Korea; he has also worked in new display development in the Corporate R & D Center of Fujitsu in Atsugi, Japan.His development work is related to new types of displays that are related to LCOS, bistable displays, PDLC, flexible displays & flexible transistors and new emissive display type such as OLEDs. His current interests are focused on the next generation of displays related to computer applications and mobile applications such as low power consumption, low cost and new form factor. He has published extensively on the subject of displays and has written over 15 patents on the display subjects. He studied under the late Prof. Glenn H. Brown of the Liquid Crystal Institute at Kent State University for his Ph. D. work. His other interests include novel nanoscale approach in display, power source (such as fuel cells and novel battery) and low cost RAM memory materials.
Dr. Chuang-Chuang Tsaiis currently a Senior Vice President of Quanta Display Inc. She received her BS in Physics from the National Taiwan University in 1972, and her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago in 1978. Chuang-Chuang brings with her over 30 years experience in TFT-LCD technology, 2-D imaging technology, semiconductor material research and process development, and amorphous and polycrystalline silicon devices.From 1978 to 1996, she was a Member of Research Staff with the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She twice received the prestigious Xerox Corporate Research Group Excellence in Science and Technology Award. In 1996, she moved to the position of Technical Program Manager with dpiX, a Xerox Company. From 1997 to 1999, she served as the Senior Director, Strategic Marketing and Technology, with AKT, which is an Applied Materials Company. In 2000, she returned to Taiwan to join a start-up company, Quanta Display Inc., which is a joint venture between Quanta Computer Inc. and Sharp Corporation specializing in the manufacturing of the TFT-LCD panels. Chuang-Chuang has authored over 100 technical publications, is a holder of 6 U.S. patents, and has participated in many domestic and international conferences and symposia, both as a presenter and chairperson. Both in 1992 and 1995 she chaired the Organizing Committees of the International Conferences on the Integrated-Circuit and Solid-State Technology. She was a Meeting Chair of the 1996 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting held in San Francisco. Chuang-Chuang is a member of the American Physical Society, the Society of Information Display, and the Materials Research Society, as well as a senior member of IEEE. She was elected to serve as the Secretary of the Materials Research Society for two terms (1998 - 1999, and 2000 -2001). She has served on the review panel for the DOE. She was an Advisory Board Member of the Journal of Materials Chemistry and Physics, and an Advisor in Materials Science to the World Scientific Publishing Co.
Ms. Hui-Ling Liuis a director of Networks and Multimedia Institute of III, in charge of information appliance technology RD center. The mission of Hui-Ling’s department is to develop embedded software for Taiwan’s IT vendors. A significant amount of technologies are developed to support Taiwan’s handset manufacturers, including WAP2 Browser, J2ME and SyncML, MMS (Multimedia Messaging), OMA DRM (Digital Right Management), OMA Wireless Village (IMPS:Instant Messaging and Presence Service), Multimedia streaming/codec, Mobile game engine. Currently Hui-Ling is also in charge of digital home RD project. There will be more technologies developed by her department to support Taiwan’s vendors.
Mr. PJ McNeelyjoined AmTech Research to cover the Gaming and Entertainment Software sector. P.J. has ten years in the technology sector. This includes six years at Gartner, with the past several years covering the video gaming, digital music and consumer market in the media space. He was also responsible for the former Dataquest e-Home Consumer Electronics program. He has presented at a wide range of industry conferences as a speaker, moderator and panelist within both the video gaming and music sectors.Before joining Gartner, P.J. was a communications consultant for the global consulting firm, William M. Mercer. P.J. graduated from Boston College with a B.A. in English, and from the College of Communications at Boston University with a M.A. in Journalism.
Ms. Ann Winbladis the co-founding Partner of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners (http://www.humwin.com) is a venture capital firm focused on software investing and manages over $1 billion in capital. Hummer Winblad Venture Partners has launched over 80 new software companies.Ann has over 25 years of experience in the software industry as a successful software entrepreneur, strategy advisor, technical author and venture capitalist. Her background and experience have been chronicled in many national business and trade publications. Ann began her career as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank. In 1976 Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc., a top selling accounting software company, with a $500 investment. She operated Open Systems profitably for six years and then sold it for over $15 million. Prior to co-founding Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Ann served as a strategy consultant for prestigious clients such as IBM, Microsoft, Price Waterhouse, and numerous start-ups. In addition, Ann has co-authored the book Object-Oriented Software and has written articles for numerous publications. Ann has a BA in Mathematics and in Business Administration. She has an MA in Education with a focus in International Economics from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota. Ann also has an honorary Doctorate of Law degree from the University of St. Thomas. Ann serves as a Director of start-up and public companies and currently serves as a director of Dean & Deluca, Intacct, Market Wire, The Knot and Voltage Security. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of St. Thomas and is an advisor to numerous entrepreneur groups.
Mr. Robert Cochranserves as primary, outside corporate and securities counsel for emerging growth corporations in high-technology areas, and as transactional securities counsel to venture capital funds. His highly transactional practice emphasizes venture capital financing, strategic technology arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and preparing growth corporations for prospective firmly underwritten initial public offerings ("IPO"). Over his career of 21 years, Mr. Cochran has guided start-up corporate clients in securing a cumulative aggregate of over US$1,000,000,000 in private equity financing. He presently runs a boutique law firm, the Law Office of Robert D. Cochran (www.robcochranlaw.com) based in Woodside, California, which offers high quality corporate and legal representation, often initially on a risk basis. Approximately 90% of Mr. Cochran’s practice involves representing corporations with Mandarin-speaking CEO’s.Mr. Cochran is also a leading expert regarding US / Asia cross-border acquisitions, particularly with respect to Taiwan. In 1989, Mr. Cochran established international legal precedent completing the first-ever tax-free US / Taiwan corporate flip for Mosel-Vitelic, Inc., now publicly listed on the Taiwan stock exchange with a multi-billion dollar market capitalization. Primax Electronics, Inc. and Myson Technology, Inc. , among others, also successfully became publicly listed in Taiwan after successful international acquisition or reorganization transactions conducted with Mr. Cochran's guidance. Robert Cochran was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Law School; and was associated with, and trained at, the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, P.C. during the 80’s.
Ms. Martha Nalebuffis a Director in Microsoft's Windows Client Strategic Relations and Policy Group and has focused over the past 4 years on intellectual property protection, DRM and Rights Expression technologies.Ms. Nalebuff is an active member of several industry committees including MPEG-21 and is on the board of the Content Reference Forum. She has served in several business and technical management roles at Microsoft, including managing eBook strategic partner relationships and running the Windows Hardware Quality Labs. Prior to Microsoft, Ms. Nalebuff worked in the UNIX arena for 15 years, most recently as Vice President of a software consulting firm, where she established and ran the leading POSIX compliance testing lab. Before that, she worked at Hewlett-Packard in speech recognition technology and standards. Ms. Nalebuff began her professional career at IBM after obtaining a degree in mathematics from Northeastern University. She is an experienced speaker and has appeared on the program at Seybold, Broadcast Asia, Jupiter DRM Forum and the Silicon Valley Speaker Series.
Mr. Irwin ChenCTO of Cinimation, has 16 years Hi-Tech related experiences in Computer information, Computer Graphic, Computer I.C., Multimedia Video Messaging and Internet Industry. Before joining Cinimation he served as Vice President of Visualize Video Corporation, and founded 3VR, Inc. (a Silicon Valley company bringing 3D, Virtual Reality, Multimedia CD-ROMS into interactive computer applications) and Media Trax (Another Silicon Valley company inventing the Next Generation Internet and Wireless Multimedia Instant Messages Technology). He published Hollywood character CD-ROM games, The 3D Adventures of Sailor Moon. (The Edutainment Catalog top twenty Titles, other publisher in this list including Mattel Media, Disney Interactive and GT Interactive.)Mr. Chen has an MSEE degree from the University of Houston, MA Program from Rice University, and a BS degree from National Central University. Cinimation, a San-Francisco Based Animation and feature film production company, is dedicated to quality filmmaking and storytelling. With offices in Asia employing talented, experienced and dedicated animation staff, as well as US offices comprised of some of the greatest filmmaking and animation talent found anywhere, Cinimation is poised to grow into the leading animation studio in the world, delivering exceptional quality and entertaining requiring just half the budget of animated features today. Its services and products include full-length features, shorts, television & video, games, CGI & effects and post-production services.
Mr. David Traubis Vice President of Business Development for Screen Media Technology. He has 20-years of experience as a digital media-oriented business development executive, venture catalyst, investor and/or board member to over 30 startups. He has created digital media as an executive producer of digital products across a wide variety of clients such as EMI North America, MCA Records, Philips/Polydor, Microsoft/MSN, Apple Computer and others. He is also an author of nearly 50 articles and reports on the evolution of the digital domain for trade publications, professional books and institutional clients; and a speaker who has given nearly 50 forward-looking keynote and other speeches throughout the world for clients such as the EU, the Swedish and Canadian Governments, TV Globo (Brazil), the National Institute of Film in Denmark, Viacom, US West, Mercedes/Siebold, The Broadband Content Development Forum and numerous other economic development agencies and universities.David is an executive and educator whose mission is the development and distribution of solutions that augment and optimize our potential for excellence at work and quality of life. He earned a Masters in Education in 1990 from Harvard University, while conducting simultaneous class-work in interactive cinema and AI-based narrative at the MIT Media Lab. In 1984 he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the University of California at Berkeley, concluding with an honor thesis focusing on the use of film and television in education. Screen Media Technology (http://www.Screenmedia.no), based in Norway, is a Linux-centric embedded software development and design company delivering state-of-the-art net-centric mobile computing and communications solutions, including a WiFi-enabled thin client device being optimized for WLANs, the web, telephony and wireless television.
Dr. Nam Lingreceived a B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Singapore, an M.S. degree and a Ph.D. degree, both in Computer Engineering, from U.S.A. After completing his Ph.D. in 1989, Dr. Ling joined Santa Clara University, California, U.S.A., where he is currently a full Professor with the Department of Computer Engineering and the Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) for the School of Engineering. He was a Senior Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in 1998 and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore) in August 2002 and February 2004. Dr. Ling is also a Consulting Professor and Honorary Advisor to the National University of Singapore (NUS America, Inc.) since September 2002.Dr. Ling has more than 100 research publications in the fields of video coding/ decoding, video streaming, and systolic arrays. His current active research is in the areas of bit rate and error control for H.264 and for the future Scalable Video Coding (SVC). He is the primary author of the book entitled Specification and Verification of Systolic Arrays (1999). Dr. Ling received research support and funding from U.S. National Science Foundation and from hi-tech companies such as Nortel Networks, IBM, and New Japan Radio, in the Silicon Valley. Dr. Ling received Arthur Vining Davis Junior Faculty Fellowship in 1991 and the Santa Clara University Outstanding Achievement Award in Teaching, Research, and Service, in 1992. He was named 1999 Researcher of the Year by the School of Engineering, Santa Clara University. Dr. Ling also received the Santa Clara University Award for Recent Achievement in Scholarship in 2002. Dr. Ling was named 2002-2003 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Besides research, Dr. Ling teaches courses in video compression and computer architecture. He supervises students and is involved in engineering curriculum development. As Associate Dean, he oversees the engineering graduate programs and faculty research for Santa Clara University. Dr. Ling has conducted numerous colloquia at major Universities and companies in six different countries and consults at different companies and research organizations. He is among many Who's Whos. Dr. Ling served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I. He is currently a Guest Co-Editor for the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems (special issue on digital and computational video). In 1993 - 1995, Dr. Ling served as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee (TC) on Microprocessors and Microcomputers. He is currently a member of the VSPC TC (IEEE CAS Society), the VSA TC (IEEE CAS Society), and the DISPS TC (IEEE SP Society). Dr. Ling was the General Chair of the IEEE Hot Chips Symposium in 1995. He served as a Program Chair for DCV'02 and SiPS'00, and as a Publication Co-Chair for the IEEE Workshop and Exhibition on MPEG-4 (2001 and 2002). He was a Track Co-Chair for ISCAS'04 and is currently a Track Co-Chair for ISCAS'05. Dr. Ling also participated in the Singapore Digital TV Technical Committee in 1998. He served in program committees, organizing committees, and as session chairs for many IEEE conferences.
Dr. Han-Ping D. Shiehreceived his BS degree from National Taiwan University in 1975 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. in 1987.He joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan as a professor at Institute of Opto-Electronic Engineering and Microelectronics and Information Research Center (MIRC) in 1992 after as a Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA since 1988. He now is AU Optronics chair professor and Associate Director, MIRC, NCTU. He founded Display Institute at NCTU in 2003, the first such kind of graduate academic institute in the world dedicated for display education and researh. He is also holding a joint-appointment as a Research Fellow at Center for Applied Sciences and Engineering, Academia Sinica since 1999. He was appointed as a co-PI of “Display Science and Technology Large-Scale Project” in 2004, a national project to drive Taiwan display into new era. His current research interests are in display, optical MEMS, nano-optical components, and optical data storage technologies. He currently serves as a Director, SID (Society for Information Display), and has served as program chair, committee member, organized conferences in major data storage (ISOM, MORIS, Intermag, ODS, APDSC) and display (SID, IDRC, ASID, FPD Expo, etc.). He has published more than 100 journal papers and has more 30 patents to his credit.
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