[CPCC] [Fwd: May 5/11: Pablo Rodriguez from Telefonica Research]

[Athina Markopoulou]

FYI, this week's CS/NetSys seminar hosts a great speaker,
who should also be of interest to EECS and CPCC.

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2012 CS/Netsys Distinguished Seminar
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DATE: Friday May 11, 11:00 AM - noon, in Donald Bren Hall 6011
SPEAKER: Pablo Rodriguez, Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain
TITLE: The Next Wave of Telco's Innovation
HOST: Professor Athina Markopoulou

URL for series: http://www.cs.uci.edu/research/seminarseries/

ABSTRACT

Exponential data growth, slowly growing revenues, and pressure from
both policy makers and customers for capacity and coverage are
carrier's dilemmas today. To meet such a challenge, ISPs need to find
new ways to finance the deployment of next generation networks and
focus on innovation, enabling new and disruptive services. While the
early stage of Telco innovations focused around their core
technologies and business around voice, messages and data, the next
decade looks very different. In this talk I will discuss some of those
opportunities, including how to unleash the power of desegregated
broadband connections, enabling privacy and personal data management
to deploy solutions that solve the tussle between privacy and
generating revenue, understanding the power of Call Detailed Records
as implicit Social Networks for trust and reputation, using open
Hardware Platforms to connect the next 50 Billion things, or better
understanding network economics from a quantitive point of view and
using excess network resources to distribute bulk data across the world.

Bio:

Pablo Rodriguez is Director of Research and Director of Telefonica
Digital Barcelona R&D Lab. He is also an adjunct faculty professor at
the department of computer science at Columbia University, New York.
He has developed his career in the United States as a software
architect and entrepreneur in three Silicon Valley start-ups (Inktomi,
which provided the search engine of MSN, Yahoo and AOL; Netli
and Tahoe Networks). He also worked at Microsoft Research in Cambridge
and Bell-Labs in the USA. As a result of his work, Pablo has more than
fifty scientific publications and patents. Twitter: pabloryr
Web: http://www.rodriguezrodriguez.com