9:30 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
Dr. Donald B. Keck
Retired Vice President
Research Director
Corning Incorporated, USA
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10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Hiromichi Shinohara
Director
NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs., Japan
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Through a Glass Brightly
Thirty-five years ago three remarkable and nearly-coincident technological breakthroughs occurred: the first Internet experiments, the first room-temperature semiconductor laser demonstration, and the invention of low-loss optical fiber. Today, these have led to a 650 million kilometer and growing low-loss fiber network that is driving economic and cultural globalization. The development’s history and what might lie ahead will be discussed.
Dr. Keck retired in 2002 as Vice President, Research Director for Corning Incorporated. He had served there in a number of technical and management positions for 34 years. Most recently he served
as a consultant for the Infotonics Technology Center that he helped start in upstate New York, He was a key member of the Corning (Keck, Maurer and Schultz) team that invented low-loss optical fiber in 1970. This work created the optical fiber telecommunications revolution and enabled the Internet. He has authored more than 150 papers and holds 36 patents.
Presently he is serving as vice-chair, National Inventors Hall of Fame Board of Directors. He is a member of the oversight board for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He is a past Board Chairman of the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) and Past President of the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame Foundation. Formerly he served on the boards of directors of PCO, Inc., a joint venture of Corning, Inc. and IBM, and the Optical Society of America. Locally he serves on the American Red Cross, the Community Foundation, and the Science Center Boards.
*To receive a hard copy of Dr. Keck's presentation, please contact Lisa Burns.
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Broadband Expansion in Japan
This presentation introduces the rapidly growing FTTH market in Japan. It highlights FTTH services, deploying systems and lessons learned from actual deployments. The key R&D issues required to solve deployment problems and reinforce competitiveness in the coming market will also be discussed.
Hiromichi Shinohara is a Director of NTT Access Network Service Systems Labs. Since joining NTT Laboratories in 1978, he has been engaged in research and development of fiber-optic cables, broadband networks and optical access systems. He has been also engaged in strategic planning of broadband access network. |