1 University of Kansas A KTEC Center of Excellenc Victor S. Frost Director, Information & Telecommunication Technology Center Dan F. Servey Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science [email protected], 785-864-4833 An Introduction to the Information & Telecommunication Technology Center ITTC Technology Review May 2003
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1University of KansasA KTEC Center of Excellence
Victor S. Frost
Director, Information & Telecommunication Technology CenterDan F. Servey Distinguished Professor of
• Mission– To create the fundamental knowledge and technologies
required to realize the convergence of computing, communications, and sensors for the expansion of our economy and the improvement of the quality of life;
• FOCUS on RESEARCH– To educate the next generation of technology leaders that
will drive this convergence; • FOCUS on STUDENTS
– To transfer the knowledge and technology to industry that will enable this convergence.
• FOCUS on ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT
• Vision
– Our vision is to be a global leader in and catalyst for the unification of computing, communications, and sensor technologies while being a strategic partner for their commercialization.
3University of KansasA KTEC Center of Excellence
What is Information & Telecommunication Technology?
• Communications academic emphasis and research programs established in 1983, radar and remote sensing emphasis in 1964
• Students from EE, CS, CoE, Math, Physics, Journalism, Education
• 31 faculty, 17 staff researchers, 6 Center staff
• Current student population ~ 145– ~ 19 Ph.D., ~98 M.S., ~28 B.S.
ITTC Overview
5University of KansasA KTEC Center of Excellence
Unique Facilities• Unique high-speed networking laboratory including a fiber
connection to the Sprint Sprint long-distance fiber network • Lightwave laboratory, including 16 wavelength systems, OC-
192 and 40 Gb/s test equipment• Outdoor Antenna Range• Connection to Sunflower Broadband’s Network• Networking laboratory, including ATM and IP Wide Area
Networks• Wireless laboratory and digital signal processing with high
frequency capabilities• Cluster of over 94 Linux CPUs• Radar and microwave equipment with up to 40 GHz capabilities• Extensive computing facilities - ~500 computers and 1.5 TB of
storage
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ITTC R/D&C Organization
O perations &Support Staff
Technology Transfe r& Com m ercializatio n
M arketing &Public Relation s
Industry &KTEC Liaison
Softw are Lab-Prototyping, Support & Toolkits
Tim JohnsonExecutive D irector,Applied Technology
Industry Advisory Board
W ireless Com m unications an dDigital S ignal Processing-DS P
Lightw ave Com m unicatio nSystem s
Netw orking &Distributed System s
Intelligent System s an dInform ation M anagem en t
Radar System s &Rem ote Sensin g
E-Learning Lab
G ary M indenExecutive D irector,
Research
Victor FrostDirector
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ITTC Expenditures
ITTC R/D&C Expenditures Sources FY2002
Other 8%
State10%
Tech Transfer
1%
Federal51%
Industry28%
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Some of the Research Facilities at the University of Kansas Information & TelecommunicationsTechnology Center
Adaptive Computing
Wireless & DSP
Lightwave & Optics
Networking& Systems
RemoteSensing
9University of KansasA KTEC Center of Excellence
Some of the Research Facilities at the University of Kansas Information & TelecommunicationsTechnology Center
2.4 Gb/s Fiber Terminal
25 Mb/s Wireless System
20 Gb/sWDMLightwave System
40 Gb/sWDMLightwaveSystem
InternetBackboneIP Router
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Agenda8:30 – 8:45 Welcome (Stuart Bell, Dean, School of Engineering)
An Introduction to the Information & Telecommunication
Technology Center (Victor Frost)
8:45 – 9:00 University/Industry and Technology Transfer (Tim Johnson)
9:00 - 10:30 Session 1: Bioinformatics
+ Data Mining of Blood Incident Databases (Costas Tsatsoulis)
+ VitalSeek (Susan Gauch)
+ Data Mining in Bioinformatics (Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse)