Prior to this William was a Director at Ofcom where he managed a team providing technic

al advice and performing research across all areas of Ofcom’s regulatory remit. He also led some of the major reviews conducted by Ofcom including the Spectrum Framework Review, the development of Spectrum Usage Rights and most recently cognitive or white space policy. Previously, William worked for a range of communications consultancies in the UK in the fields of hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management and strategy development. William also spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola’s entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago.

William has published 12 books, 90 papers, and 18 patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and DeMontfort University, a member of Ofcom’s Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET where he is a Vice President. His biography is included in multiple “Who’s Who” publications around the world. William has a first class honours degree in electronics, a PhD and an MBA.

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Mr. Augustine has been presented the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States and received the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Public Service Award. He has five times received the Department of Defense’s highest civilian decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal. He holds 23 honorary degrees and was selected by Who’s Who in America and the Library of Congress as one of “Fifty Great Americans” on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Who’s Who.

He served as president of Lockheed Martin Corporation upon the company’s formation in 1995 and became CEO later that year. He retired as chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin in August 1997, at which time he became a lecturer with the rank of professor on the faculty of Princeton University where he served until July 1999. Previous to that, Mr. Augustine joined Martin Marietta Corporation in 1977 as Vice President of Technical Operations, was elected as CEO in 1987 and chairman in 1988, having previously been President and COO.

Mr. Augustine also chaired the Advisory Committee on the Future of the United States Space Program in 1990, and The Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee in 2009. Both committees evaluated the long-term future of NASA and the United States civilian space program and provided recommendations to strengthen US global competitiveness.

In 1973, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army, in 1975 became Under Secretary of the Army, and later, Acting Secretary of the Army. He joined LTV Missiles and Space Company in 1970, serving as Vice President, Advanced Programs and Marketing. In 1965, he began his military career; during which he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Prior to his military service, Mr. Augustine joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1958, where he worked as a Research Engineer, Program Manager and Chief Engineer.

In addition to his IEEE membership, Mr. Augustine was Chairman and Principal Officer of the American Red Cross for nine years, Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, President and Chairman of the Association of the United States Army, Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association and Chairman of the Defense Science Board. He is a former President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Boy Scouts of America. He is a current or former member of the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips, Black & Decker, Proctor & Gamble and Lockheed Martin and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg. He is a Regent of the University System of Maryland, Trustee Emeritus of Johns Hopkins and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton and MIT. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Department of Homeland Security and was a member of the Hart/Rudman Commission on National Security. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Affairs and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Explorers Club. Mr. Augustine was awarded the IEEE Founders Medal ´For distinguished and innovative corporate and technical leadership in aerospace, electronics and the defense industry.´

Mr. Augustine graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering. He is the author of Augustine’s Travels, The Defense Revolution and Augustine’s Laws.

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Mr. Augustine has been presented the National Medal of Technology by the President of the United States and received the Joint Chiefs of Staff Distinguished Public Service Award. He has five times received the Department of Defense’s highest civilian decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal. He holds 23 honorary degrees and was selected by Who’s Who in America and the Library of Congress as one of “Fifty Great Americans” on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Who’s Who.
He served as president of Lockheed Martin Corporation upon the company’s formation in 1995 and became CEO later that year. He retired as chairman and CEO of Lockheed Martin in August 1997, at which time he became a lecturer with the rank of professor on the faculty of Princeton University where he served until July 1999. Previous to that, Mr. Augustine joined Martin Marietta Corporation in 1977 as Vice President of Technical Operations, was elected as CEO in 1987 and chairman in 1988, having previously been President and COO.
Mr. Augustine also chaired the Advisory Committee on the Future of the United States Space Program in 1990, and The Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee in 2009. Both committees evaluated the long-term future of NASA and the United States civilian space program and provided recommendations to strengthen US global competitiveness.
In 1973, he served as Assistant Secretary of the Army, in 1975 became Under Secretary of the Army, and later, Acting Secretary of the Army. He joined LTV Missiles and Space Company in 1970, serving as Vice President, Advanced Programs and Marketing. In 1965, he began his military career; during which he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as Assistant Director of Defense Research and Engineering. Prior to his military service, Mr. Augustine joined the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1958, where he worked as a Research Engineer, Program Manager and Chief Engineer.
In addition to his IEEE membership, Mr. Augustine was Chairman and Principal Officer of the American Red Cross for nine years, Chairman of the National Academy of Engineering, President and Chairman of the Association of the United States Army, Chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association and Chairman of the Defense Science Board. He is a former President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Boy Scouts of America. He is a current or former member of the Board of Directors of ConocoPhillips, Black & Decker, Proctor & Gamble and Lockheed Martin and was a member of the Board of Trustees of Colonial Williamsburg. He is a Regent of the University System of Maryland, Trustee Emeritus of Johns Hopkins and a former member of the Board of Trustees of Princeton and MIT. He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Department of Homeland Security and was a member of the Hart/Rudman Commission on National Security. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the Council on Foreign Affairs and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Explorers Club. Mr. Augustine was awarded the IEEE Founders Medal ´For distinguished and innovative corporate and technical leadership in aerospace, electronics and the defense industry.´
Mr. Augustine graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, where he earned both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering. He is the author of Augustine’s Travels, The Defense Revolution and Augustine’s Laws.
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s the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC Inc.).

Previously, Dr. Vandebroek was Chief Engineer of Xerox Corporation and Vice President of the Xerox Engineering Center, technical advisor to Xerox’s chief operating officer and Director of the Xerox Research Centre of Canada.

Dr. Vandebroek is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, a Fulbright Fellow and a Fellow of the Belgian-American Educational Foundation. She holds 12 US patents. Dr. Vandebroek has received awards from Xerox, IBM, HP, Monsanto, the Belgium National Science Foundation, Semiconductor Research Corporation, IEEE, and Cornell University.

Dr. Vandebroek is a member of the Board of Directors of Analogic Corporation, of Nypro Corporation, and is a member of The US National Academies Committee on Science, Technology & Law. She is a trustee of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) and also serves on the advisory council of the deans of Engineering at Cornell University and at MIT.

Vandebroek was born in Leuven, Belgium where she earned a master’s degree in electro-mechanical engineering from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. She and her husband, live in Lincoln, MA and enjoy time with their six children.

Vinton G. Cerf is an IEEE Fellow and vice president

and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world.

Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Prior to rejoining MCI in 1994, Cerf was vice president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI). As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982-1986, he led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet.

Widely known as one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science,” in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens.

During his tenure with the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Cerf played a key role leading the development of Internet and Internet-related packet data and security technologies.

Cerf serves as chairman of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). In addition to his work with IEEE, Cerf is a a member of ACM, and American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the International Engineering Consortium, the Computer History Museum and the National Academy of Engineering.

Cerf is a recipient of numerous awards and commendations in connection with his work on the Internet. These include the Marconi Fellowship, Charles Stark Draper award of the National Academy of Engineering, the Prince of Asturias award for science and technology, the National Medal of Science from Tunisia, the Alexander Graham Bell Award presented by the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf, the NEC Computer and Communications Prize, the Silver Medal of the International Telecommunications Union, the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award, the ACM Software and Systems Award, the ACM SIGCOMM Award, the Computer and Communications Industries Association Industry Legend Award, installation in the Inventors Hall of Fame, the Yuri Rubinsky Web Award, the Kilby Award , the Yankee Group/Interop/Network World Lifetime Achievement Award, the George R. Stibitz Award, the Werner Wolter Award, the Andrew Saks Engineering Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the Computerworld/Smithsonian Leadership Award, the J.D. Edwards Leadership Award for Collaboration, World Institute on Disability Annual award and the Library of Congress Bicentennial Living Legend medal.

In December 1994, People magazine identified Cerf as one of that year’s “25 Most Intriguing People.” He is also a distinguished visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where he is working on the design of an interplanetary Internet.

Cerf holds a bachelor of science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University and master of science and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from UCLA. He also holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich; Lulea University of Technology, Sweden; University of the Balearic Islands, Palma; Capitol College, Maryland; Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania; George Mason University, Virginia; Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands; Brooklyn Polytechnic; and the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.

pment and commercialization of CDMA mobile wireless technology, now adopted for all third-generation cellular communications and in use by over one billion consumers worldwide for voice and mobile broadband Internet access. He holds thirteen CDMA patents. QUALCOMM has been named for 13 consecutive years to the Fortune list of The 100 Best Companies To Work For.

Dr. Jacobs previously served as co-founder, CEO and chairman of LINKABIT Corporation, leading the development of Very Small Aperture Earth Terminals (VSATs) and the VideoCipher® satellite-to-home TV system. LINKABIT merged with M/A-COM in August 1980, and Dr. Jacobs served as executive vice president and a member of the board of directors until his resignation in April 1985. Over 100 San Diego communications companies trace their roots to LINKABIT.

From 1966 to 1972 he served as professor of computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). From 1959 to 1966, he was an assistant, then associate professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). While at MIT, Dr. Jacobs co-authored with Jack Wozencraft a textbook in digital communications Principles of Communication Engineering.

Dr. Jacobs received a BEE degree in 1956 from Cornell University and MS and ScD degrees in electrical engineering from MIT in 1957 and 1959, respectively. He was named Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Salk Institute in 2006 and Chair of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.

In addition to being an IEEE Life Fellow and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Jacobs was awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for outstanding contributions to telecommunications, including leadership theory, practice and product development. Among other awards, he received The National Medal of Technology in 1994 and the IEEE/ Royal Society of Edinburgh Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell Award with Andrew Viterbi in 2007.

He and his wife Joan have been cited by Business Week among the 50 Most-Generous Philanthropists in the United States.

Dr. John Cioffi is an IEEE fellow and currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Of

ficer at ASSIA, Inc. Dr. Cioffi was a founder, board member, Chief Technical Officer, and Vice President of engineering at Amati Communications Corporation, a company based on his invention of the discrete multi-tone modulation (DMT) industry standard technology for Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) data communications systems, before going public and then being acquired by Texas Instruments in 1997. Early in his career, Cioffi served as an electrical engineer at both Bell Telephone Laboratories and IBM’s Almaden Research Laboratory.

Dr. Cioffi was a board member of Marvell Technology Group Ltd. from 1999-2006 and chaired its Compensation Committee, helping guide it to a successful IPO in 2000. He has also served on the boards of Integrated Telecom Express, Coppercom, Teknovus, and Teranetics, all of which were public or acquired by public companies. He serves or has served on the technical advisory Boards of C-Cube Microsystems Inc., Ionospan Wireless, Kestrel Solutions, Wavion, Ikanos, Quantenna, Focus Ventures and Portview Ventures over the past two decades.

Dr. Cioffi is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he taught for 25 years eventually reaching the title of Hitachi Endowed Chair, and has authored over 400 papers (with 7 best paper awards) and 100 patents, many of which are heavily licensed. He is an IEEE fellow and winner of the 2010 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, Millenium Medal, and 2001 Kobayashi Awards, as well as the 2006 Marconi Society Fellow, and member of the United States National and UK’s Royal Academies of Engineering. He also received The Economist Magazines’ 2010 Innovation Award.

He received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Illinois University. He also holds an honory doctorate from The University of Edingurgh.

ion of today’s Internet.

She joined Intel Corporation in spring 2010 as an Intel Fellow and is responsible for ensuring Intel Labs’ leadership in network and security. Prior to her position at Intel, Dr. Perlman worked as a Fellow at Sun Microsystems. Holding more than 100 issued patents, Dr. Perlman invented many fundamental technology innovations in computer networking. In addition to inventing the spanning tree protocol and IS-IS while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, Dr. Perlman recently developed TRILL, an emerging standard for data center interconnection that can replace today’s spanning tree Ethernet.

Dr. Perlman is the author of a textbook on networking and coauthor of a textbook on network security. She has been recognized with numerous industry awards including an honorary doctorate from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Usenix Association lifetime achievement award, the SIGCOMM lifetime achievement award, Silicon Valley Inventor of the year and the Women of Vision Award for Innovation.

Dr. Perlman attended MIT, where she received her Ph.D. in computer science. Her thesis was the seminal work in network routing resistant to malicious failures of switches. She also developed a child-friendly version of the educational robotics language LOGO, called TORTIS (Toddler’s Own Recursive Turtle Interpreter System), which helps teach young children about computer programming.

He is internationally known for his pioneering research on band structure engineering

of artificially structured semiconductors and devices, which has opened up new directions in materials research, mesoscopic physics, photonics, electronics and nanotechnology.

His current research in quantum electronics deals with the design of new light sources based on giant optical nonlinearities in quantum wells such as Raman injection lasers, inversionless injection lasers and widely tunable sources of TeraHertz radiation based on difference frequency generation and Raman lasers.

In 1994, he and his collaborators (Jerome Faist, Deborah Sivco, Carlo Sirtori, Albert Hutchinson and Alfred Cho) invented and developed the quantum cascade laser, a fundamentally new light source, which is now commercial and has potentially wide ranging applications to trace gas analysis and chemical sensing (atmospheric chemistry, combustion diagnostics, pollution monitoring, industrial process control, medical diagnostics, homeland security) and telecommunications.

Prior to his current role at Harvard University, Dr. Capasso held numerous management positions at Bell Labs, including vice president of Physical Research and head of the Quantum Phenomena and Device Research Department, and the Semiconductor Physics Research Department. He was made a Bell Labs Fellow in 1997 and was made a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 1984. Dr. Capasso joined Bell Labs following tenure at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni Foundation in Rome, which supports scientific research and applications of telecommunications and information technology. During is tenure he conducted research in fiber optics.

Dr. Capasso was awarded the 2004 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science by the American Physical Society, endowed by the NEC Corporation. He was the recipient of the IEEE Edison Medal that same year.

Other honors include membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The European Academy of Sciences and honorary membership in the Franklin Institute.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics (UK), the Optical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and SPIE.

He is a also recipient of the Wetherill Medal of the Franklin Institute, the R. W. Wood prize of the Optical Society of America, the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society W. Streifer Award for Scientific Achievement, the Materials Research Society Medal, the Rank Prize in Optoelectronics (UK), the Duddell Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics (UK), The Willis Lamb Medal for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, the Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Moet Hennessy and Lois Vuitton “Leonardo da Vinci” Prize (France), the Welker Memorial Medal (Germany), the New York Academy of Sciences Award, the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in Electronics and the Goff Smith prize of the University of Michigan.

Dr. Capasso has coauthored more than 300 papers, edited four volumes and holds more than 50 US patents.

Dr. Capasso received the doctor of Physics degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome, Italy.

Dr. Peha was Chief Technical Officer of three high-tech start-ups and a member of technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Microsoft. He also addressed telecom and e-commerce issues on the legislative staff in both the House and Senate of the U.S. Congress and helped launch a US Government interagency program to assist developing countries with information infrastructure.

His research spans technical and policy issues of communications networks, including spectrum management, broadband Internet, wireless networks, video and voice over IP, communications for emergency responders, universal service, secure Internet payment systems, dissemination of copyrighted material, e-commerce and network security.

Dr. Peha holds a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford and a B.Sc. from Brown.