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1996 WCA Meetings

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  • January 1996

    • "GSM System Fundamentals" by George Brandle, an Applications Support Engineer from Hewlett-Packard's Spokane Division.
    • "The California Information Infrastructure with GSM-based PCS" by Pat Lanthier, Director-Public Policy and Technology for Pacific Bell.

  • February 1996

    • "What Venture Firms are Looking for in Wireless Start-up Companies" by Kevin Compton, a General Partner at the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
    • "Federal Government Influence on Wireless Communications" by Henny Wright, a partner in the Washington, D.C. telecommunications law firm of Goldberg, Godles, Wiener & Wright.

  • March 1996

    • "The Bay Area Research Wireless Access Network - BARWAN" by Randy Katz, UC Berkeley.

    • "Amateur Radio Operations in the ISM Bands" by Jeffrey Pawlan, of Pawlan Communication..

  • April 1996

    • "WINForum, UTAM, and the FCC Petition for 5 GHz Unlicensed Service" by Ron Cross (Northern Telecom), President of WINForum.
    • "The Impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on the Unlicensed Part 15 Wireless Industry" by Burt Tregub of Cylink Corp.

  • May 1996

    • "Recent Results of The InfoPad Project" by Professor Bob Brodersen of Berkeley.
    • "VSAT Networks" by Fernando Nocedal, Sr. Vice President of Vitacom.

  • June 1996

    • "The Wireless LAN Industry" by Jeff Abramowitz of 3COM and President of the Wireless LAN Alliance.
    • "The 2-way Wireless Market for Cellular and PCS; 1996 &1998" by John Ledahl, Director of Wireless Programs for Dataquest.

  • July 1996

    • "New Generation Si/GaAs Modules for Wireless Datacomm System Design" Panel discussion chaired by Wayne Moyers. Companies participating were:
      - Diablo Research
      - Microwave Technology
      - Oki Semiconductor
      - Samsung Semiconductor

  • August 1996

    • "CDMA as a Wireless Standard" by Dr. Hans Mattes, Wireless Business Development Manager for Hewlett-Packard (until recently, with AT&T, Bell Laboratories).
    • "Market Research on Opportunities for Successful Wireless Data" by Michael French, Director of Market Research for Mobile Insights.

  • September 1996

    • "Integrated VSAT Wireless Local Loops for Rural Telephony" by Ira Kane, Stanford Telecom.
    • "The FCC's Plans and Priorities for Wireless Communications" by Michele Farquhar, Chief of the Wireless Communications Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission.

  • October 1996

    • "An Update of Wireless Research at Stanford" by Stanford Professor Donald Cox
    • "Low-Overhead, Low-Complexity Burst Synchronization for OFDM" by graduate student Tim Schmidl.
    • "Blind Equalization for Short Burst TDMA Systems" by graduate student Byoung-Jo Kim.

  • November 1996

    • "Human Exposure to Radio-Frequency Radiation: Current Standards and Modeling Results for ISM Handhelds". by Dr. Earl Craighill and Daniel Allan of SRI International.

    • "Network Meter Reading Using a Wireless Packet Radio System" by Larsh Johnson, Chief Technical Officer of Ce