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Spring Planning MeetingJanuary 26, 2013 San Marcos, TX

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2013 Austin Chapter Elected Leadership

Team Fawzi Behmann (Chapter Chairman) Hanan Potash (Vice Chair) Frances Freeman (AT&T Liaison) Kwok Wu (Treasurer) Syed Shah (Secretary) Mahdy Saedy (Technical Program, Mem. Dev.) Richard Penshorn (Web Master, Soc Media) Behrang Nosrat-Makouei (University Outreach) Saurabh Sureka (Member at-large) Tim Raper (Member at-large)

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12 Technical Meetings 9 Administrative/strategy/planning meetings 2 Non-Technical 2 Professional

6 Outreach Activities PlusHome Networking Summit

DLT – Dr. Mischa Dohler, Barcelona Spain

Other Advancement from 2011 Migrate website from Infuseweb to IEEE (Feb) Migrate website from IEEE to IEEE Word Press (May) Enhancement of booth presentation: Collaterals, Chapter banner &

Table cloth

New website & Social Media

Election

Attendee feedback survey, draw prizes, guest appreciation

2012 Record of Activities

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Q1Feb. 16 @ AT&T

“Making of a Multicore Processor”, Dr. Syed Shah, Director of Systems, Lattice

Mar. 15 @ AT&T“The Future of Smart Secured Networking and Smart Converged Gateways for Smart Cloud Services”, Dr. Kwok Wu, Head of Embedded Software and Systems Solutions, Freescale

Q2Apr. 19 @ AT&T “Defined Radios Accelerate Wireless Research” Mr. James Kimery, Director of Marketing, National InstrumentsMay 17 @ AT&T “The Stampede Supercomputer: The Evolution of High Performance Computing “ Dr. Dan Stanzione, Deputy Director of the Texas Advanced Computing CenterMay 24 @ AT&T “Heterogeneous Processors, Hybrid Systems and Big Data“ Dr. Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research LaboratoryQ3July 19 @ AT&T “Objective Video Quality Assessment for Multi Bit Rate Adaptive Streaming” Dr. Prabhu Hosur, AT&T LabsAug. 16 @ AT&T “Fan Control and Temperature Sensing“ Dr. Ali Akbar Merrikh, AMDSept. 20 @ AT&T “Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)-based architectural framework for Water Management Application” Dr. Syed Shah, Director of Systems, Lattice Semiconductor

Chapter Monthly Technical Meetings

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Q4Oct. 18 @ AT&T “Cyber Security and the new Threat Landscape with BYOD“ Mr. PaulMeding, Sr. Security Analyst, AT&TNov. 13 @ UT “10x Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges for Emerging 5G Networks” Dr. Misca Dohler, Director CTTCNov 13 @ Freescale “10x Beyond LTE-A – Business Case, Technologies, Challenges for Emerging 5G Networks” Dr. Misch Dohler, Director CTTCDec 20 @ AT&T “Low Complexity Scalable Video Encoding” Mr. Rashid Jillani, Encoding Engineer, AT&T

9 Administrative/Strategy/Planning MeetingsFeb 16Mar 15Apr 19May 17Jul 19Aug 16Sep 20Oct 8Oct 27

Chapter MonthlyTechnical Meetings

2 Non Technical FunctionsJan 26 Address UT IEEE StudentsFeb 1 Address UT IEEE COMSOC Students

2 Professional FunctionsAug 7 NI Texas DayNov 12 Austin Home Networking Summit

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Austin Chapter Updates

Feb. 6, Outreach program: Career Fair “Coast-To-Coast”

Feb 23-24, Support CTS/eWeek

Jun 11-15, Support Globecom2014 @ ICC12

August 6-9 “NI Week – Texas Day“ NOV 12 Home Networking Summit & Distinguished Guest Lecturer

Nov 13Distinguished Lecture – Dr. Mischa Dohler addressing UT and COMSOC/SP Chapter

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Austin Career Fair

Feb. 6, 2012

Holiday Inn Austin Midtown

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NIWEEK

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AustinHome Networking SummitDate: Nov.12, 2012, Location: 7700 Parmer

Theme: IOT for Home Networking Solutions

Objectives:The objectives of the workshop is to provide a forum of learning, dialog and networking regarding home networking marketing and technological trends, evolved architecture solutions and services and identify and demonstrate what is currently available.

AM•Keynote Speaker – Dr. Mischa Dolher•Home Networking Landscape, Technology and Standards •Home Networking Technology & Architecture •Available Products

PM•Panel on Home Networking Solutions•Home Networking Enabling Software•Development Kits and Reference solutions•Tips on Maintaining secure home networks

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Sponsors/Supporters Austin Chapter

San Antonio Chapter

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17 Companies/Institutions/Associations

ATT CTTC CiscoDigi Int’l Freescale HBMGHitachi IBM COMSOCIHS/IMS NI OracleServergy Sigma Designs ThinkEcoUT Vision Invent

2013

Jan 15 Chapter Admin/Strategy/Planning Meeting

Jan 17 Dr. Brian Kelly, UTSA "RF Multicarrier Signaling and Antennas Systems for Low SNR

Broadband Underwater Communications” 

Jan 20-23 RWW, Austin

RWW 2013 Plenary Session – January 22: Jan-Erik Mueller        RWW 2013 General Chair Karl Varian            RWW 2013 TPC Chair                     Mahdu Gupta               MTT                                Fawzi Behmann           ComSoc                     Robert Nevets              APS                    Jung-Chih Chiao         EMBS                        James Truchard         NI CEO, Plenary Speaker     Dietmar Kissinger       EuMW 2013             Takao Inoue             RWW 2014              

370 in attendance

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