External Advisory Committee Reviews

The External Advisory Committee for the NSF project consists of key technical people from industry. The role of this committee is to provide advice to help ensure that the research is focused on problems and issues likely to be important in the future. The first visit of the External Advisory Committee took place in CSL on Friday, October 13, 2000, just following the CEPS Industrial Affiliates Workshop. The agenda with copies of briefing material follows.

Bruce Hajek: Overview of project goals, activities, progress to date, and strategic plans
(Also went over contents of this website).

Doug Jones: Joint source channel coding and OFDM

Naresh Shangbhag: VLSI implementation

Sean Meyn, network level research Slide 1, Slide 2, Slide 3.

Andy Singer: Equalization and coding

Brainstorming and Feedback from External Reviewers

The members present recommended that a second visit of the committee be scheduled for the Spring 2001.