Grid on the Go Program
Hosted by NCSA at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana
May 20-22nd     

May 20th, Sunday

6:00pm RECEPTION

May 21st Monday

7:30-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-Welcome and Program Overview ()
-Speaker Geoffrey Fox

Technical Talks

8:00-8:30 The Grid (30 minutes)
-Speaker:  Dan Reed

8:30-9:30 Wireless Devices and the National Technology Grid (1 hr)
-Speaker:  Larry Smarr

9:30-9:45 BREAK

9:45-10:45 The Promise of Bluetooth (1 hr)
-Speaker: Brian Redding, Motorola

10:45-11:45 The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP):  What is it and Where is it going? (1 hr)
-Speaker:  Chris Burke, Motorola

12:00-1:00 LUNCH:  Roundtable discussion of morning presentation

Applications Talks

1:00-2:00 New Directions in Delivering Broadband Wireless Connectivity (1 hr)
-Speaker:  Dewayne Hendricks

2:00-3:00 Distributed Sensors and Users:  Challenges and Promise (1 hr)
-Speaker: David Hughes

3:00-3:15  BREAK

3:15-4:15  Caterpillar: Making Sensors Work (1hr)
-Speaker:  Waiting to confirm

4:15-5:15  Roundtable:  Bridging the Gap Between Academic and Private Sector Research

5:15-5:30  Break

5:30-6:30 The Wireless Spectrum (1hr)
-Speaker:  William Lane, FCC

7:00 RECEPTION

May 22nd, Tuesday Morning

7:30-8:00 Breakfast

8:00-8:50 Wireless Devices and the Changing Face of Education (1 hr)
-Speaker:  Brad Meyers from CMU

8:50-9:50 The Wireless Web @ FSU (1 hr)
-Speaker:  Gordon Erlebacher

9:50-10  BREAK

10:00-11:00Universal Accessibility issues and Wireless Devices (1 hr)
-Speaker:  Al Gilman from Trace Center at Wisconsin 

11:00-12:30  Closing Roundtable (1.5 hr)  Working Lunch served at 12.
-The academic Research Agenda
-Unintended application of wireless technologies and their impact on the future
-Potential Policy Issues for Academy and the Private Sector
-Next steps