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    Friday, 21 November 2008

Dear CATT Friends,

The 2008 CATT Annual Research review was held on Friday, November 21st, 2008.
The theme for this year's event was Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I2E).

All of the presentations are now available on this page.

 

CATT Annual Research Review Agenda
November 21st, 2008
Place: 5 MetroTech Center

Place: LC400
8:30 AM         Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM         Welcome
- Kurt Becker, Associate Provost, Research & Technology Initiatives, Polytechnic Institute of NYU

9:15 AM         CATT:  A Focus on Invention, Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Shiv Panwar, Director, CATT

9:45 AM         CATT Research Overview - Cyber-security
- Ramesh Karri, Area Director

10:15 AM       Break / Poster Session 

10:30 AM       CATT Research Overview - Wireless
- Frank Cassara, Area Director
- Henry Bertoni, WICAT Director

11:00 AM       CATT Research Overview - Digital Media
- Keith Ross, Area Director

11:30 AM       Collaborative Entrepreneuring and Technology Transfer
- Bruce Niswander, Director, BEST, Polytechnic Institute of NYU 

 

Place: Pfizer Auditorium Foyer
11:45 AM       Lunch 

- Posters / Demonstrations 

 

Place: LC400 

1:30 PM        “Polytechnic and Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship In a Challenging Economic Environment"
- Kurt Becker, Associate Provost, Research and Technology Initiatives, Polytechnic Institute of NYU

Case Studies in Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

 

2:00 PM        "The Challenges of Transforming Academic Research to Start-ups: from Comverse to SMARTS to Intercast"
- Yechiam Yemini, Co-founder Chief Scientific Advisor, Intercast

2:30 PM        "Verizon Columbia Research on VoIP Security – a Model Academia/Industry Collaboration"
- Gaston Ormazabal, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Verizon

3:00 PM        "SmartCarving - From Research to Product"
- Nasir Memon, CEO, Digital Assembly

3:30 PM        Reception / Networking / Poster session
- CATT Advisory Board Meeting (Board members only - LC433)