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Tuesday, June 5th at 9:30 am Session Chair, Collaboration Technologies - What's Next? Prof. Alberto Leon-Garcia Jeffrey Skoll Professor in Computer Networks & Innovation Department of Electrical and Computer Enginering, University of Toronto Alberto Leon-Garcia received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 1973, 1974, and 1976 respectively. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. He currently holds the Nortel Institute Chair in Network Architecture and Services. In 1999 he became an IEEE fellow for contributions to multiplexing and switching of integrated services traffic. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in communication networks, and conducts research in resources management of broadband networks and service end systems, switch and router design, Internet performance, and wireless packet access networks. He is currently leading a team that is developing a programmable network node that can be used for the rapid prototyping of packet network protocols. He is also Director of the Master’s of Engineering in Telecommunications program. Dr. Leon-Garcia was Editor for Voice/Data Networks for the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1983 to 1988 and Editor for the IEEE Information Theory Newsletter from 1982 to 1984. He was Guest Editor of the September 1986 Special Issue on Performance Evaluation of Communications Networks of the IEEE Selected Areas on Communications. He is also author of the textbooks Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley), and Communication Networks: Fundamental Concepts and Key Architectures, co-authored with Dr. Indra Widjaja and published by McGraw-Hill, January 2000. |
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