Bell Labs Chief Scientist to feature at green internet forum

Events — By Greta Harrison on October 24, 2011 11:04 am

Thursday 3 November 2011
9am – 11am Public Lecture
11am – 12pm Meet the Speakers, Showcase and Morning Tea

Venue: Brown Theatre, Ground Floor, Electrical Engineering Building (No.193) (MAP)
University of Melbourne, Parkville
Register for the event

The Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) at The University of Melbourne is hosting a public forum featuring Bell Labs Chief Scientist Alice White.

The forum on energy-efficient telecommunications is being held in conjunction with Alcatel-Lucent and will feature  a showcase of Bell Labs’ rich history of telecommunications and their latest innovations.

Bell Labs has produced fundamental breakthroughs that have shaped industry over the 20th century and have enabled modern telecommunications, from Alexander Graham Bell’s original telephone to the transistor, laser, solar cells, satellites, broadband and more.

Improving the energy-efficiency of the Internet will be one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Bell Labs researchers are actively collaborating with CEET to create a greener Internet. CEET is a partnership between the University of Melbourne, Alcatel-Lucent and the Victorian State Government, and is the world’s first research centre exclusively dedicated to energy-efficient telecommunications technologies.

Alice White

Alice White is Chief Scientist of Bell Labs, the research organisation of Alcatel-Lucent. She has a PhD in physics from Harvard University and a broad technical background in experimental solid state physics and fabrication of optical components.

Since 1989, she has held various leadership positions at Bell Labs including Director of Materials Physics Research, Director of Integrated Photonics Research, VP of the Physical Technologies Research Center, and location leader for Bell Labs North America.

In 1991, she received the Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award of the American Physical Society for her work on compound formation using ion implantation. She was named a Bell Labs Fellow in 2001 for her work in “developing and applying novel integrated photonic device technologies in advanced optical networks”.

Forum topics and speakers

Improving the Energy–Efficiency of the Internet – Rod Tucker, CEET Director
An Innovation View of the World – Alice White, Bell Labs Chief Scientist
Immersive Applications of the Future – Jan Bouwen, Residential Applications Research Director
The Emerging Directions of Wireless – Tod Sizer, Head of Wireless Research
Optical Innovation – Sebastien Bigo, Head of Optics
Low-Energy Fibre Access Networks – Alan Lee, CEET Senior Research Fellow

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