February 9, 2001 Future Technology Series  presentation

Wireless Platforms for the Future:
Integrating B-to-C Data Transmission & 4G – Where will it take us?

Wireless Platforms for the Future: Integrating B-to-C Data Transmission & 4G – Where will it take us? was held Feb. 9 from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. at the University of Texas at Dallas Conference Center. 

Moderator

Jerry Hausman, PhD, MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT

Panelists:

Edward Newsome, president, Moriah Technologies, Inc.

Dayakar Puskoor, chief executive officer, JP Systems, Inc.

Panel  Overvie

The MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth, Inc. will present another leading-edge topic in its next “Future Technology Series” program. The topic, Wireless Platforms for the Future: Integrating B-to-C Data Transmission & 4G – Where will it take us? will be addressed Feb. 9 from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. at the University of Texas at Dallas Conference Center. Admission to the program, is $30 and includes breakfast. Students may attend for $10.For reservations call Mary Langford at 972-377-4554, or email to mitforum@juno.com, or go to the Website at www.mitforum.com.

The moderator is Jerry Hausman, PhD, MacDonald Professor of Economics, MIT.  Panelists are Edward Newsome, president, Moriah Technologies, Inc.; and Dayakar Puskoor, chief executive officer, JP Systems, Inc.

The Feb. 9^th program focus is on global wireless technology standards, platforms and applications as the industry moves into the 4^th generation (4G) stage of evolution. Wireless voice devices are part of the business-to-consumer marketplace today, and wireless data devices are becoming more commonplace in the business-to-business marketplace. The emergence of wireless Internet and other applications are moving forward as the entire wireless industry moves into the 4G environment. The MIT Forum’s panel  includes international leaders in 4G wireless standards, platform and application issues to discuss the challenges and opportunities in this fast-growing high-tech niche.

The MIT Alumni Association is sponsoring the participation of Dr. Hausman.

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Jerry A. Hausman, PhD, MacDonald Professor of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Dr. Hausman is one of the world's leading econometricians. Among his many honors is being named to the John and Jennie S. MacDonald Chair at MIT's Department of Economics in 1992. He is co-author of the soon-to-be published Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, for which he has authored a chapter on the mobile telephone. He has been the Director of the MIT Telecommunications Economics Research Program since 1988.

The influence of Dr. Hausman's accomplishments in economics is worldwide. As Dean Philip S Khoury stated when Dr. Hausman was named to the MacDonald Chair in 1992, "Jerry Hausman's pioneering research on econometric methodology and his outstanding work in applied economics are the daily bread of econometrics courses throughout the world. The Hausman specification test provided the first practical way to test whether a statistical model is in accord with the data." Dr. Hausman's consulting activities are worldwide and he has participated in merger and competition proceedings in the US, EU, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

Among his honors are the award of the Frisch Medal of the Economics Society in 1980 and the John Bates Clark Award of the American Econometric Association, given every two years to the single most prominent economist under the age of 40, in 1985. In 1998 he was named Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics. He is a member of the committee to revise the US Trade Statistics and the Massachusetts Governor's Advisory Committee on Taxation. He is a Fellow of the Econometrics Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Hausman joined the MIT faculty as an assistant professor in 1973, and was promoted to professor in 1979. He received his BA from Brown University in 1968, and D. Phil. (PhD) from Oxford University in 1973, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Edward E. Newsome President & Founder Moriah Technologies, Inc.

Mr. Newsome founded Moriah Technologies, Inc. in May of 1994 after more than 20 years of engineering research and development experience in high technology, as well as business expertise in high technology market development. He has extensive knowledge of telecommunications technologies acquired from fifteen years of experience in that industry. He spent eight years at BNR-Northern Telecom, as Senior Manager of Technology Marketing, working with switching and transmission products. Mr. Newsome has expertise in high technology product marketing, corporate and strategic planning, market research, strategy implementation, and the delivery of products from research-to-market.

His engineering experience has come primarily in the defense electronics and telecommunications industries. As an engineering design and development professional, he has worked on a diverse array of high technology systems ranging from radar altimeter systems, Fourier infra-red spectroscopy systems, missile control and guidance systems, digital and optical transmission systems, digital switching and cellular systems, and optical and SONET transmission systems

In 1999, the Company won a Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract with the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) to perform proof-of-concept research into fourth generation (4G) wireless communication systems for high mobility battlefield applications. For the years 2000 and 2001, Moriah was awarded a Phase II SBIR contract by CECOM to demonstrate the operation and performance on these concepts on a software defined radio (SDR) system.

He holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University (SMU); and he earned an MS degree in Electro-physics from The George Washington University. Mr. Newsome received his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dayakar Puskoor Chief Executive Officer JP Systems, Inc.

A visionary in the wireless messaging industry, Dayakar Puskoor leads JP Systems in developing the technology, strategy and alliances that have garnered industry-wide recognition. Mr. Puskoor has personally written numerous patents and received multiple awards for his engineering expertise and systems development. An expert telecommunications engineer, Mr. Puskoor founded JP Systems in 1995 after having served in various key management, product development and wireless technologies roles over a 10-year period at Motorola. He played a critical role in the design, development, and maintenance of many systems, including the implementation of Tokyo Tel-Message Company's nationwide paging network - the first FLEX-TD system in Japan.

Mr. Puskoor is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin University and holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Nova University.