"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
Arthur C. Clarke - Science Fiction Author
Over the past decade, progress in Portable Information Devices (PIDs) has revolutionized telecommunications, information engineering, and entertainment systems, and become an essential part of everyday life and business. PIDs make possible vastly enhanced lifestyles - from basics such as reading, note taking, or listening to music, to crunching numbers, watching videos, and following news and sports events while on the go. Today's PIDs include cellular phones, personal digital assistants, medical devices, intelligent clothing, and iPODs. Some devices provide built-in organizers for shopping lists, scheduling and appointments, phone numbers, address books, customer contacts, even games and video display. Both hardware and software are equally important in the design, use and reliability of these devices, which should be easy to handle and operate, and last a long time.
IEEE PORTABLE 2007 will bring together communications, electrical, industrial, manufacturing, materials, mechanical, optical, and reliability engineers and business leaders involved in various types of PIDs, to address and discuss state-of-the-art challenges, attributes and pitfalls in PID-related areas of engineering and applied science, with an emphasis on the interaction of the hardware and software, as well as their functional and physical (mechanical) performance, reliability and durability.
Invited Keynote Speakers
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Monday 26 March 8:00 - 9:30
Portable Identity: The Social Life of Information-Augmented Humans
Judith Donath, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Lab, USA
Monday 26 March 12:00 - 13:30 Luncheon
Nanotechnologies and PIDS
Claire Gu, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Tuesday 27 March 8:00 - 9:30
Applications of Nano for Telecommunications
Vida Ilderem, Vice President and Director for Embedded Systems Research, Motorola Labs, USA
Tuesday 27 March 12:00 - 13:30 Luncheon
Living the Future: People and Technology at Scale
Andrew Lippman , Senior Research Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory
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