Communications Society and Signal Processing Society Joint Chapter Cordially Invites you to The Sixth Alexander Graham Lecture The Communications and Signal Processing societies joint chapter of the IEEE Hyderabad Section launched the Annual Memorial Lecture in 2011, the year of the 164th birthday of Alexander Graham Bell, to commemorate his genius. The 2016 lecture is the sixth in the series. Topic Venue Internet of Things: Technical Challenges and Seminar Hall, Innovation Opportunities G Naryanamma Institute of Technology and Science By Shaikpet, Hyderabad 500008 Dr Manish Kothari Map Vice President of Engineering https://goo.gl/maps/dMkybikZti92 Qualcomm, Hyderabad Registration Link:

Thursday, 24th March, 2015 http://goo.gl/forms/aXkir0Xlgi Tea: 3:30 pm The lecture is open and admission is free to IEEE Lecture: 4:00 pm members as well as non-IEEE members. However, seats are limited. Please register on or before 22nd March. For clarifications, send email to [email protected] Or contact Venu (IEEE) at 9246176967, [email protected] Page 1/2 The Lecture Abstract

Alexander Graham Bell IOT: Technical Challenges and Innovation Opportunities ‘Father of Communications’ The Internet of Things (IOT) is projected to be a trillion dollar market in the next several years. This market provides significant The Man who Invented the opportunities/challenges and is an avenue for potential disruptions in the way things are done today in every sector from consumer, enterprise to governments. IOT will be a platform for a multitude of Alexander Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on March 3, 1847. He was players from start-ups to large companies to innovate, grow and educated at the Edinburgh high school and Edinburgh University. He was an compete. An overview of the market and the potential technical eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing challenges and innovation vectors it presents will be reviewed. the first practical telephone. Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been Business model innovation opportunities will also be discussed as associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were they directly impact the ability to make money (and hence R&D deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work. His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices which eventually culminated in investments). Bell being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876. In retrospect, Bell considered his most famous invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study. Many other inventions The Speaker marked Bell's later life, including groundbreaking work in optical telecommunications, hydrofoils and aeronautics. In 1888, Alexander Graham Bell became one of the founding members of the National Geographic Society. In Dr. Manish Kothari 1875, Bell developed an acoustic telegraph and drew up a patent application for it. Vice President, Engineering Since he had agreed to share U.S. profits with his investors Gardiner Hubbard and Qualcomm India Private Limited Thomas Sanders, Bell requested that an associate in Ontario, George Brown, attempt to patent it in Britain, instructing his lawyers to apply for a patent in the U.S. only after they received word from Britain. The was Dr Manish Kothari is Vice President, Engineering, Qualcomm India created in 1877, and by 1886, over 150,000 people in the U.S. owned . Bell company engineers made numerous other improvements to the telephone, where he leads the Cellular Modem Software, Connectivity Software which emerged as one of the most successful products ever. In January 1915, Bell (WIFI, BT and GPS), Systems-Engineering and made the first ceremonial transcontinental telephone call. Calling from the Power/Performance/Thermal teams. AT&T head office at 15 Dey Street in New York City, Bell was heard by Thomas Manish began his career at Qualcomm in 2004 as Director, Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco. Bell died of complications arising from diabetes on August 2, 1922, at his private Engineering. Having held various positions at Qualcomm including estate, , Nova Scotia, at age 75.Bell had also been afflicted with leading engineering and business operations in the Bay Area, he pernicious anaemia. His last view of the earth he had inhabited was of the moon moved to India in 2013 to lead the connectivity software team. ascending over the beloved mountain on his estate at 2:00 A.M. Manish holds several patents and has a B.Tech degree from IIT The bel (B) and the smaller decibel (dB) are units of Madras in addition to Master of Science (MS) and Ph.D. degrees measurement of sound intensity invented by and named after him. Since 1976 the IEEE's Alexander Graham Bell Medal has been awarded to honour from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). outstanding contributions in the field of telecommunications.

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