Workshop Information

COIN-ACOFT2007 will start with a Sunday Workshop on the topic of Considerations for Future Optical Internet. It brings together active researchers from the internet and optical networking community to discuss various topics that will underpin the development of Future Optical Internet. Invited presentations will cover various aspects of development of the Future Optical Internet from in terms of applications and their demand for bandwidth, technology platforms that may drive the core of the Optical Internet, network demonstrators and also energy implications in powering the Optical Internet.

Panel of Speakers:

Grenville Armitage, Director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
Swinbourne University of Technology, Australia

Grenville Armitage earned a B.Eng (Elec)(Hons) in 1988 and a PhD in electronic engineering in 1994, both from the University of Melbourne , Australia . Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor of Telecommunications Engineering and Director of the Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Previously he has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Research (in both California and New Jersey, USA ), Product Marketing Director with Lucent Technologies, and Senior Research Scientist with Bell Communications Research (now Telcordia Technologies). He authored "Quality of Service In IP Networks: Foundations for a Multi-Service Internet" (Macmillan Technical Publishing, April 2000) and co-authored "Networking and Online Games - Understanding and Engineering Multiplayer Internet Games" (John Wiley & Sons, UK, April 2006). Associate Professor Armitage is a member of IEEE, ACM and ACM SIGCOMM.

Minho Kang, Director of Optical Internet Research Centre, Korea

Professor Minho Kang received the BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D. degrees from Seoul National University, University of Missouri-Rolla, and The University of Texas at Austin in 1969, 1973, and 1977, respectively.From 1977 to 1978, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ. During 1978 and 1989, he had been a Department Head and a Vice President at ETRI. Also during 1985 and 1988, he was the Electrical and Electronics Research Coordinator at the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology. During 1990-1998, he was an Executive Vice President at Korea Telecom in charge of R&D, quality assurance, and overseas business development groups. In 1999, he joined the Information and Communications University as a full professor and is the Director of the Optical Internet Research Center .

Ken-Ichi Kitayama, Director, Photonic Internet Forum, Japan

Ken-ichi Kitayama joined the NTT Electrical Communication Laboratory in 1976. In1982-1983, he spent a year as the Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1995, he joined the Communications Research Laboratory (Presently, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, NICT), Tokyo . Since 1999, he has been the Professor of the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Information Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University . His research interests are in photonic networks, optical signal processings, OCDMA systems, and radio-on-fiber communications. He has published over 220 papers in refereed journals, written two book chapters, translated one book. He holds more than 30 patents. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Optical Switching and Networking as the Associate Editors. He is the Fellow of IEEE and the Fellow of of IEICE of Japan .

Rod Tucker, Research Director,ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Rod Tucker is a Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is Research Director of the Australian Research Council Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, in the University of Melbourne's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Professor Tucker has held positions at the University of Queensland, the University of California, Berkeley, Cornell University, Plessey Research, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and Agilent Technologies. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Fellow of the IEEE.  He received the BE and PhD degrees from the University of Melbourne, in 1969 and 1975, respectively. In 1997 he was awarded the Australia Prize for his contributions to telecommunications.