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2005 Vodafone Wireless Technology Symposium
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April 8-10, 2005
Siebel Center for Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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About the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation:
The Vodafone-U.S. Foundation is located in Walnut Creek, California. Annually, the Foundation gives over $1 million, primarily in the San Francisco Bay Area. This is the Vodafone-U.S. Foundation's first major initiative involving higher educational institutions.
Vodafone Group Plc., headquartered in the U.K., is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications network companies with operations in 28 countries worldwide.
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About the UIUC College of Engineering:
One of the top engineering schools in the world, for 135 years the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has provided educational leadership, research innovation, and technological breakthroughs to the the people of Illinois and the world. Currently, Engineering at Illinois is ranked 4th in the country for its undergraduate programs and 4th for its graduate programs by US News and World Report. Of the approximately 200 engineering schools nationwide, only ten schools have more than one engineering program in the top five, and only four schools have eight or more programs ranked in the top five. Those schools are MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and Illinois.
In the Electrical & Computer Engineering program, three courses are being redesigned to form a coherent, in-depth sequence on fundamental aspects of wireless communications. Twenty courses address specific wireless topics ranging from system-wide issues in wireless communication, optical electronics and imaging, random processing, optimization, networks, and mobile computing. In the Computer Science program, more than 500 students per year take networking courses, and many courses incorporate wireless telecommunications within larger contexts. The new Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science has been designed to serve as a testbed for mobile, ubiquitous computing and communications. Currently six classes address wireless technology topics including data structures, computer networks, distributed systems, artificial neural networks, and mobile computing and communications.
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