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Marconi Society Young Scholars Symposium with Vint Cerf as the Keynote Speaker

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The Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholars Symposium

Keynote Speaker: Vint Cerf

An interactive event highlighting world class Innovation that Georgia Tech is known for where teams will show how their breakthroughs in information theory, telecommunications, computing and cryptography, can scale into applications powering both the enterprise and consumer applications of tomorrow. The event provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to show posters of their work.

Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, and Vice Chair of the Marconi Society, will deliver the keynote address, "Dynamics, Evolution and Explosion of the Internet (to Billions of Devices)". Turing Award winner and Internet co-creator Vint Cerf looks ahead to what he foresees as the key future technological disruptions and its resulting challenges. How will we connect billions of devices in the physical world, from automobiles to security and home energy management, especially in developing nations?


Symposium Schedule:

11:00 am – 12:00 pm  

-Career Panel - Career in Computing: What's your game plan?

-Marconi Society Young Scholars as Panelists: Dr. Aakanksha Chowdhery (Microsoft Research), Dr. Hao Zou (PIMCO), Dr. Joseph Kakande (Alcatel Lucent)

-Klaus Classroom 2443

 

12:00 pm – 1:30 pm

-Posters/Demos/Presentations by students with a panel of judges+ Lunch  

-Klaus 1116 East and West

 

1:30 pm – 2:15 pm

-Young Scholars Symposium Keynote: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google, Vice Chair of the Marconi Society.

-Keynote: Dynamics, Evolution and Explosion of the Internet (to Billions of Devices)                 

-Klaus Atrium

 

2:15 pm - 3pm

-Panel Discussion: Women in Technology: Real World Challenges and Issues

-Panelists: Vint Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google and Vice Chair of the Marconi Society, Aakanksha Chowdhery, postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research Redmond, Kanchana Raman founder/CEO of AVION Systems, Dana Randall Director of the Algorithms and Randomness Center and ADVANCE Professor of Computing, and Ellen Zegura Professor of Computer Science with moderator Hatti Hamlin Executive Director of the Marconi Society

-Klaus Atrium

 

This event is sponsored by the Marconi Society and Georgia Tech College of Computing. Please register for this event here

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  • Created By:Birney Robert
  • Created:01/30/2015
  • Modified By:Fletcher Moore
  • Modified:04/13/2017