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Ron Schafer - Keynote Speech - History of DSP
Cheryl Currid - Voiceband Modems - Still Prime Time
Geoff Ballew - Making Waves in the Modem Pool
Daniel Briere - Turbo Charging the Telephone Lines
Ron Schafer, PhD
Dr. Ronald W. Schafer received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. degrees from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, in 1961 and 1962 respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1968.
From 1968 to 1974, Dr. Schafer was a member of the Acoustics Research Department for Bell Laboratories, where he was engaged in research on speech analysis and synthesis, digital signal processing techniques, and digital waveform coding. Since 1974, he has been on the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is now a John and Marilu McCarty Professor and Institute Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Schafer’s current research interests include speech and video processing, nonlinear signal processing systems, applications of signal processing in multimedia communication systems, and applications of signal processing in biology and medicine. He is co-author of six textbooks, including Discrete-Time Signal Processing and the recently published DSP First: A Multimedia Approach. Dr. Schafer is active in the IEEE Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Society, having served as Associate Editor of the Transactions, member of several committees, Vice-President and President of the Society, and Chairman of the 1981 ICASSP.
Dr. Schafer is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the Achievement Award and the Society Award of the IEEE ASSP Society in 1979 and 1983 respectively; the 1983 IEEE Region III Outstanding Engineer Award; and was co-recipient of the 1980 Emanuel R. Piore Award with L. R. Rabiner. He received the Class of 1934 Distinguished Professor Award at Georgia Tech in 1985, and the IEEE Education Medal in 1992.
Cheryl Currid
As one of America’s most respected computer industry analysts, Cheryl Currid offers a rare blend of business and technical insight. Named as one of the most influential industry personalities by Marketing Computers and the winner of the prestigious Computer Press Association award for expert opinion, she is known for making correct calls on information technology. Currid has 13 books and 800 magazines/journal articles to her credit, and regularly writes opinion columns appearing in Information Week, LAN Times, Comdex Show Daily, and the Houston Chronicle. She also contributes opinions on computer industry trends to business media, such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Reuters, Investors Business Daily, Forbes, Fortune, ABC, NBC, CNBS, PBS, and CNN. Currid is a member of the advisory board for major industry conferences, such as COMDEX, and several business and networking symposiums.
Geoff Ballew
Geoff Ballew is a Senior Analyst in the Semiconductor Application Markets service for Dataquest's Semiconductor group. He is a specialist on semiconductor applications, with the scope of analysis including both technical and economic trends. Ballew’s areas of specialization include: voice-band modem chipsets and semiconductor opportunities in remote access systems; overall semiconductor device and technology trends within the PC market, graphics controllers and add-in cards; audio chipsets and add-in cards; voice-band modem chipsets; and memory in PCs. Prior to his current role, Ballew enjoyed dismantling PCs "just to see what was inside" as part of the PC Teardown project at Dataquest. He earned his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Daniel Briere
Daniel Briere founded TeleChoice in 1985 to address the need in the marketplace for consulting in the post-divestiture competitive telecommunications era. Today, he serves as President of the company. He has served on strategic advisory boards for several equipment and carrier ventures, and regularly consults with the leading Wall Street financial brokerage houses, such as Hambrecht and Quist and Montgomery Securities, as well as leading venture capitalist firms like Battery
Ventures.
Danny is also active in industry events such as ComNet, CMA, Interop and Networld. He is also Contributing Editor and Columnist in the industry publication, Network World, and a contributing writer for several other publications. He has been Managing Editor of Telecom Manager, and
Contributing Editor to Intelligent Network News. In addition, he is the author of several white papers, reports and books on a range of intelligent network-based and local and long-distance services. He is also the author of three hardback books and editor of a fourth book, The Guide to Frame Relay Networking: How to Evaluate, Implement, and Maintain a Frame Relay Network. His next book, Home Networking, is in production.
Danny earned his Master's in Business Administration from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in 1985. He also earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Telecommunications Policy at Duke.
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