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Future Internet Technology for the Other Billions
Speaker: Professor Kilnam Chon Keio University, Japan Professor Emeritus at KAIST, Korea Title: "Future Internet Technology for the Other Billions" Date: Monday, 21 February 2011 Time: 4:00pm - 5:00pm Venue: Lecture Theatre F (near lifts 25/26), HKUST Abstract: Research on Future internet has started around the world. Much of the research is focused on the First Billion, the current Internet users of the developed countries. Complimentary effort on the research for The Other Billions, people without the Internet access, in particular among developing countries is also very important. This could provide good research opportunity for many researchers around the world, both from the developing and developed countries. ***************** Biography: Prof. Kilnam Chon is a Professor Emeritus at KAIST and a Professor at Keio University. He received Ph.D in Computer Science at UCLA in 1974 and B.S. in Engineering Science, Osaka University in 1965. He has been a Professor in the Computer Science Division at KAIST from 1982. Before that he was a Principal Investigator, ETRI (formerly KIET) in Korea. His main research area is System Engineering.