Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois

Christian Sandvig has forwarded this announcement to ETSI.  A flyer on the event is available here.

If you are interested in WIRELESS technology, SERVICE LEARNING courses, COMMUNITY INFORMATICS, or COMMUNICATION POLICY to please join us for these very brief presentations with discussion and a reception to follow. Free pizza will be served!

Monday, April 21, 2008 from 3:30 - 4:50 p.m.
314 Altgeld Hall
Free and Open to the Public

SELECTED TOPICS:
- Can you build an AM radio receiver using only household objects?
- Why does the U.S. have a third world cellular infrastructure?
- What Countries Have the Coolest Cell Phones, and Why?
- If you had only $10,000 to build a municipal wireless broadband network, how should you spend it?
- Is unlicensed spectrum full? Where? When?
- How are wireless standards made?
- WiMax: Vaporware or the real deal?
- What is the government up to? A summary of government use of spectrum.
- A successful solar rural broadband system for remote Indian reservations.
- Does the availability of unlicensed frequencies promote economic development?
- What are the global wireless policy priorities for 2009?
- Could we “build” a large-scale wi-fi network just by encouraging cooperation with existing equipment?
- Is campus wireless emergency notification via SMS effective?
- What are the bottlenecks in bulk SMS delivery?
- How do universities use wireless systems for emergency messages?
- What’s the long-term future of broadcast television?
- The Spectrum Spectator

(*) “broadCAST” is the broad Collaboration for Advanced Spectrum Technology, and consists of the members of the seminar SPCM 496CS: “Making the World Wireless: Service in Technology and Policy.”

This event is also a class meeting of SPCM 496CS and the Coordinated Science Laboratory Communications Group Seminar. It is free and open to the public.

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