The Third International Conference on Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking (ICMU 2006)

October 11 - 13, 2006
BCS London Office, London, U.K.

Keynote Talks

• Dr. Atsushi Murase, NTT DoCoMo, Japan
• Dr. Ken Wood, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK
• Ms. Monique Jeanne Morrow, Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

To participants, slides of keynote speeches put in this site. Plaease find the URL, username, and password in your program brochure.

Toward Ubiquitous Wireless Networking: the Evolution of Keitai (Cell Phone) Communication

Dr. Atsushi Murase
Vice President & Deputy Managing Director of Network Development Department
Network Management Development Department
NTT DoCoMo, Japan

He received the Electronics and Communications Engineering bachelor degree from Waseda University, Tokyo in March 1981. He also received the Ph.D. degree in cellular radio control channel design for random access control and paging signal broadcasting from Waseda University in March 1991. He has broad experience from 1G to 3G mobile communication systems development especially for base stations, controllers and 3G FOMA terminals through more than 20 years activities in mobile communication R&D of NTT and NTT DoCoMo. He stayed at British Telecom Labs in UK from 1989 to 1990 as an exchanging researcher. He was the President & CEO of DoCoMo Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH in Munich Germany from 2002 to 2005. He has been the Deputy Managing Director of Network Development Department, NTT DoCoMo since July 2006.

Reconciling Communication Networks, Sensor Networks, and Human Networks: a Social Perspective on Ubiquitous Computing

Dr. Ken Wood
Assistant Director
Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK

Ken Wood is Assistant Director at Microsoft's Cambridge Research Lab where he heads the Computer-Mediated Living Group which he founded in 2003. His group's vision is fundamentally interdisciplinary, bringing together hardware engineering, computer science, psychology, and sociology to address the problem of designing innovative technology to support everyday life in its widest sense. Ken's personal research interests include human-computer interaction, information retrieval, digital media management, and ubiquitous computing. He has numerous publications in these areas and holds several patents. Ken joined Microsoft in September 2002 from RealVNC, a start-up he co-founded with colleagues from AT&T Labs Cambridge. Previously, in his seven years at AT&T Labs, Ken led research in the areas of multimedia information retrieval and communications, and was involved in the incubation and business planning of a number of projects that were spun out from the lab as successful independent companies. Earlier posts include several years as an academic at Oxford University, three years at Nortel Networks, and a year's sabbatical at the London School of Economics. Ken holds a doctorate in Computation from Oxford University and an AB in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Harvard University.

RFID: Towards an IP-based Application

Ms. Monique Jeanne Morrow
Distinguished Consulting Engineer
Cisco Systems, Inc., USA

Monique Morrow is currently Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. She has over 20 years experience in IP internetworking that includes design, implementation of complex customer projects and service development for service providers. Monique has been involved in developing managed Network Services like Remote Access and LAN Switching in a Service Provider environment. Monique has worked for both enterprise and service provider companies in the United States and in Europe. Monique led the Engineering Project team for one of the first European MPLS-VPN deployments in 1999 for a European service provider.
Monique is has presented in various conferences on the topic of MPLS. Additionally, Monique is co-author of the book Designing IP-Based Services: Solutions for Vendors and Service Providers. Monique is co-author of the book, MPLS VPN Security and co-author of the book, MPLS for Decision Makers. Monique is currently working on a book one that presents enterprise drivers and concerns for IP-based service delivery.
Monique is active in both the IETF and ITU-T SG 13 with a focus on OAM. She has a M.S in Telecommunications Management and an MBA. Additionally, Monique is also Vice-Chair of IPsphere Forum.
Monique is currently engaged in MPLS OAM standards development and has been engaged in carrier discussions internationally on the topic. Monique was co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on the subject of "OAM in MPLS-based Networks", published in October 2004 ; and co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on the subject of "Challenges in Enabling Inter-Provider Service Quality on the Internet" published in June, 2005 as well as co-guest editor of a special issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine on the subject of, "GMPLS: The Promise of the Next Generation Optical Control Plane," published in July 2005. Finally, Monique is working on NGN for service providers and GRID technology.

Sponsored by
IPSJ SIG-MBL (Information Processing Society of Japan, Special Interest Group of Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Networking)

Technically Co-Sponsored by
BCS (British Computer Society),
IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), and
IEEE Intellignet Transportation Systems Society, Technical Committee on Mobile Communications & Applications

Supported by
ICF (International Communications Foundation) and
SCAT (Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research, Foundation)

Company Sponsor
Mitsubishi Electric Information Technology Center Europe