CEWIT Newsletter


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September 15, 2008 CEWIT Announces 2008 Int'l Conference On Cutting Edge Wireless & IT

July 30, 2008 Amdex Strengthens Partnership with Stony Brook University's Computer Science Department and CEWIT

July 28, 2008 "LI companies struggle to fill high-tech jobs" as printed in Newsday

June 8, 2008 CEWIT Announces 2008 International Conference on Cutting Edge Wireless & IT

May 16, 2008 "Tech firms hard hit by talent gap" as printed in Long Island Business News

May 12, 2008 Frey Family Foundation Establishes $1.5M Endowed Chair In Quantitative Finance At Stony Brook University

April 30, 2008 "Technical Insights" as printed in Frost and Sullivan

March 22, 2008 "Creating future scientists and technologists" as printed in Long Island Business News

November 13, 2007"Stony Brook's Center of Excellence in Wireless & IT, CEWIT, Chooses Advisory Board Chairperson

September 7, 2007 "Stony Brook professor snags three NSF awards" as printed in Long Island Business News

Come to CEWIT's Commercialization Conference

August 3, 2007 "Stony Brook University is where the DigiGirlz are" as printed in Long Island Business News

August 2, 2007 "LI colleges fight terror" as printed in Newsday.com

July 31, 2007 "Stony Brook University wins federal defense grants" as printed in Newsday.com

July 27, 2007 "Feds support Stony Brook's cyber-security research" as printed in Long Island Business News

July 25, 2007 "High-tech experience at DigiGirlz camp" as printed in Newsday.com

July 13, 2007 Stony Brook Receives Cyber-Security Research Grant

June 12, 2007 Stony Brook Graduate Wins 2006 ACM Award

May 29, 2007 Stony Brook Places Third in Baja SAE

April 27, 2007
Business, education leaders form tech-ed strategy

April 20, 2007
Microsoft, Stony Brook Unite for 'DigiGirlz' tech camp

March 8, 2007
CEWIT Receives $16 Mil Tech Donation From ZMD America, Inc.

March 2, 2007
LI Needs Tech Jobs

February 19, 2007
CEWIT Launches Immersive Virtual Environment Lab

February 19, 2007
CEWIT Chosen to Host Microsoft DigiGirlz Summer Camp

February 15, 2007
CEWIT Enters Into R&D Relationship With Cisco Systems

February 8, 2007
UGS Software Grant








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8:00 to 9:00 am Registration and Opening of Expo
9:00 to 9:30 am Welcome Address and Opening Remarks
Yacov Shamash, Stony Brook University
Yogesh Gupta, Computer Associates International, Inc.
9:30 to 10:00 am Keynote Address
Robert Lucky, Author, Commentator and Communicateur
10:15 am to 12:15 pm

Morning Sessions - Three Parallel Tracks and Expo

Track 1 – Starlight Room
Real Business Advantage: Wireless Solutions from Executives

    Walk away with knowledge today to gain competitive advantage tomorrow
    Session Chair: Jay Best, President, Best Mobile Computing

  • The Hand you are Dealt, Tom Roslak
  • Connected While on the Go, Gregg Fenton, Davor Dokonal
  • Mobile Access to Calendar Scheduling, Youngn Chanlam
  • Wireless Connectivity is Becoming a Necessity, Jeffrey S. Grunfeld
  • Low Cost Deployment of Wireless on a Shoestring Budget in a Boatyard, Tim Dougherty

Track 2 - Terrace Room - Each presentation is 20 minutes including Q&A
Leveraging Company Rescources through Partnership with CEWIT
    Collaborations between CEWIT and industrial partners to create opportunities in wireless and IT Technologies
    Session Chair: Robert Kelly, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University

  • Lydia: Knowledge Extraction from Curated Text Sources, Steven Skiena
  • Data-Centric Energy Efficient Scheduling for Densely Deployed Sensor Networks, Yuanyuang Yang
  • Case Study for Design of a Smart Sensor Architecture, Alex Doboli, Yulei Weng, Sankalp Kallakuri
  • Simultaneous Radio Access Network (SiRAN), Seyong Park, Doug Kim and Sangjin Hong
  • Automated Generation of Attack Signatures for Buffer Overflows: A Step Towards Realizing Self-Securing Server, R. Sekar
  • A Peer-to-Peer System for Broadcasting TV over IP, Alex Mohr

Track 3 - Each presentation is 15 minutes including Q&A
Cutting Edge Wireless and IT Technologies
The next wave of wireless and IT revolution emerging from universities and industry

    Session 1: Networking – Emerald Room
    Session Chair: Sumit Deshpande, Vice President, Wireless Solutions Group,
    Computer Associates International, Inc.

  • Sensor Systems: Future Challenges, Dr. Dharma P. Agrawal (invited)
  • Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), Ron Seide
  • Security Issues in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, G.V.S. Raju and Rehan Akbani
  • Game Theoretic Approaches to Coexistence of Wireless Networks, Roli G. Wendorf and Howard Blum
  • Space-Time Block Code for DS-CDMA UWB System, Hyoung-Kyu Song, Chul-Seung Lee, Myung-Sun Baek, Mi-Jeong Kim, Young-Hwan You, We-Duke Cho
  • Experimental Performance Evaluation of AODV Implementations, Koojana Kuladinithi, Asanga Udogama, Nikolaus A. Fikouras, Carmelita Gorg

  • Session 2: Mobile Computing and Communication – Hampton/Garden Suite
    Session Chair: Tzi-cker Chiueh, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science
    Stony Brook University

  • Websphere Everyplace Connection Manager: A Smart, Secure, Optimized, Mobile VPN for Heterogeneous Networks, Ivan Heninger and Marc Segre
  • Winspect: A Case Study for Wearable Computing Supported Inspection Tasks, Tom Nicolai, Ingrid Ruegge, Michael Boronowsk and Otthein Herzog
  • Managing Mobility: Reducing Cost and Complexity Through Intelligent Management Systems, Ray Martino
  • L2L – Location-2-Location: A Peer-to-Peer Based Location-Aware Information System Approach, Hendrik Witt and Michael Boronowsky
  • A Solution to the Channel Equalization Problem Tailored to Offset Modulation, Gary R. Lomp
  • MB-OFDM UWB System with MIMO Architecture Using Layered Space-Time for High Capacity Transmission, Myung-Sun Baek, Chul-Seung Lee, Mi-Jeong Kim, Young-Hwan You, Hyoung-Kyu Song and We-Duke Cho
12:30 to 2:00 pm Luncheon
Introduction – President Shirley Strum Kenny, Stony Brook University
Charles Gargano, Chairman, Empire State Development Corporation
2:00 to 2:30 pm Keynote
Hal Stern, Sun Services
2:30 to 4:30 pm Afternoon Sessions - Four Parallel Tracks and Expo
    Track 1 - Starlight Room
    Real Business Advantage: Wireless Solutions from Executives
      Walk away with knowledge today to gain competitive advantage tomorrow
      Session Chair: Jay Best, President, Best Mobile Computing and Wi-RAN(TM)

    • Business Continuity, Brian Monette
    • Content Delivery, Kenneth A. Miller
    • Keys to Success: Managing Security in Wireless Environments – from the small office to worldwide Enterprises, Sumit Deshpande
    • Wireless Provides Instant Access for Hotel Clients at Danfords on the Sound, Derek Peterson and Chrissandra Passafiume

    Track 2 - Terrace Room - Each presentation 20 minutes including Q&A
    Leveraging Company Rescources through Partnership with CEWIT
      Collaborations between CEWIT and industrial partners to create opportunities in wireless and IT Technologies
      Session Chair: Alex Mohr, Ph.D., Department of Computer Science
      Stony Brook University

    • Hyacinth: A Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Network for Broadband Access, Tzi-cker Chiueh and Fanglu Guo
    • Carlsbad: A Wireless Sensor Network for Monitoring WLAN Traffic, Tzi-cker Chiueh and Fanglu Guo
    • Exploiting Diversity in Stony Brook Wireless Mesh Router, Samir Das
    • Communication-Efficient Querying in Sensor Networks, Himanshu Gupta

    Track 3 - Room to be announced - Each presentation 15 minutes including Q&A
    Cutting Edge Wireless and IT Technologies
      The next wave of wireless and IT revolution emerging from universities and industry

      Session 3: Networking
      Session Chair: Robert Chu, Director of Solutions
      Global Pervasive/Wireless eBusiness
      IBM

    • Real-Time Optimization of Resources at Critical Incidents, Christopher Couper
    • An Application for Hospital Based on RFID, H.J. Kim, C. C. Park, J. T. Lee, S. C. Lim and W. D. Cho
    • Development of Advanced Point of Care System Using Wi-Fi and RFID, Peom Moses Park, Ho-Young Byun, Jeong-Wook Choi and Jae-Youn Hwang
    • Mixed-Measurement Passive Emitter Location Performance, David K. Mesecher
    • A Stimulating Signal Model for Sensor Locations, Zhanyang Zhang
    • FORCEnet as Applied to Naval Aviation Command and Control, William A. Cheslock
    • Scenario-Driven Mobile Ad Hoc Network Simulations for DOD Systems, Ralph Martinez, John Deal and Kevin McNeill

    Track 4 - Hampton/Garden Suite
    Regulation and Legal Issues in Wireless and IT Industry
      Learn how regulation and legal issues may affect your industry

    • Employee Wireless Usage: Legal Risks, Jonathan Ezor
    • Open Source, Paul Rubell
    • Spectrum Policy and Management, David Irwin
4:30 to 5:00 pm Closing Remarks – Grand Ballroom
Todd Hewlin, Symbol Technologies
5:00 to 6:00 pm Cocktail Reception and Research Poster Session - Emerald Room
  • An Architecture for Distributed Ad-Hoc Resource Collaboration
    Garrett Wilkin

  • Secured Key Generation & Distribution Scheme with Data Verification for Sensor Networks
    Ganesh Devarajan, Rahul Gupta

  • Wireless Solutions/Applications
    Ellen Badinelli

  • Novel Biosensors Based on Enzyme Encapsulation in Sol-Gel Matrices
    Prashant K. Jha, P. I. Gouma

  • Dispersion Simulation and Visualization for Urban Security
    Feng Qiu, Ye Zhao, Zhe Fan, Xiaoming Wei, Haik Lorenz, Jianning, Wang, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover, Arie Kaufman, Klaus Mueller

  • Lattice-Based Flow Simulation on GPU
    Ye Zhao, Zhe Fan, Wei Li, Arie Kaufman, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover

  • GPU-Based Voxelization and its Application in Flow Modeling
    Zhe Fan, Wei Li, Xiaoming Wei, Arie Kaufman

  • Open Architecture – A Net-Centric Operations and Warfare Enabler
    Jefferd Davis

  • GPU Cluster for Scientific Computing and Large-Scale Simulation
    Zhe Fan, Feng, Qiu, Arie Kaufman, Suzanne Yoakum-Stover

  • RapidCT: Acceleration of 3D Computed Tomography on GPUs
    Fang Xu, Klaus Mueller

  • Urease Nanofiber Mats as Urea Biosensing Material
    Katarzyna Sawicka, Perena Gouma

  • High Bandwidth Video Streaming in Large Peer-to-Peer Mesh Networks
    Karthik Tamilmani, Nagesh Chetan, Mahadev Konar, Kapil Kumar, Vinay Pai, Vinay Sambamurthy, Alexander Mohr

  • Enhanced Program Behavior Models to Improve Accuracy of Application-Level Intrusion Detection
    Sandeep Bhatkar, Abhishek Chaturvedi, R. Sekar

  • Efficient Detection of All Memory Errors in Existing C Programs
    Wei Xu, R. Sekar, Daniel C. DuVarney

  • Safe Execution Environment for Experimentation with Unsafe Software
    Weiqing Sun, Zhenkai Liang, V.N. Venkatakrishnan, R. Sekar

  • A Modified Randomized Tree Walking Scheme for RFID Tag Security
    Wonjoon Choi, Byeong-hee Roh, S.W. Yoo

  • An Enhanced Framed Slotted ALOHA Anti-collision Algorithm for RFID
    Su-Ryun Lee, Sung-Don Joo, Chea-Woo Lee

  • Efficient and Reliable Petabyte-Scale Storage Clusters
    Aarathi Rao, Nagesh, Chetan, and Alexander Mohr

  • Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Minimal Information
    Petar M. Djuriç Mahesh Vemula, Mónica F. Bugallo

  • An FPGA Based Parallel Filter for General Target Tracking
    Akshay Athalye, Sangjin Hong, Petar M. Djuriç