invited speakers

Byeong Gi Lee

Byeong Gi Lee (S¡¯80¨CM¡¯82¨CSM¡¯89¨CF¡¯97) received the B.S. and M.E. degrees from Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, and Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Korea, both in electronics engineering, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He was with Electronics Engineering Department of ROK Naval Academy as an Instructor and Naval Officer in active service from 1974 to 1979, and worked for Granger Associates, Santa Clara, CA, as a Senior Engineer responsible for applications of digital signal processing to digital transmission from 1982 to 1984, and for AT&T Bell Laboratories, North Andover, MA, as a Member of Technical Staff responsible for optical transmission system development along with the related standards works from 1984 to 1986. He joined the faculty of Seoul National University in 1986 and served as the Director of the Institute of New Media and Communications in 2000 and the Vice Chancellor for Research Affairs from 2000 to 2002. From 2008 to 2010 he took a leave to serve as a Commissioner of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), a Korean Government organization in charge of communications and broadcasting.

Dr. Lee was the founding steering committee chair of the Joint Conference of Communications and Information (JCCI), a steering committee chair of the Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), and the founding committee chair of the Accreditation Board for Engineering Education of Korea (ABEEK). He served as the TPC Chair of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2005 and the President of the Korea Society of Engineering Education (KSEE). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Global Communications Newsletter, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, and the founding Associate Editor-in-Chief and the second Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN). He served for the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) as the Director of Asia Pacific Region, as the Director of Membership Programs Development, as the Director of Magazines, as a Member-at-Large to the Board of Governors, as the Vice President for Membership Development, and as the Vice President for Member Relations. He served as a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee of Policy Planning, a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on Science and Technology, and a member of the Policy Committee of the Ministry of Justice, all of the Korean Government. He served as a Vice President of the ABEEK, the President of Korea Information and Communication Society (KICS), and the first President of the Citizens' Coalition for Scientific Society (CCSS), a non-government organization for the advancement of science and technology in Korea. He currently serves as the President of the IEEE Communications Society.

Dr. Lee is a co-author of Broadband Telecommunication Technology, 1st & 2nd editions, (Artech House: Norwood, MA, 1993 & 1996), Scrambling Techniques for Digital Transmission (Springer Verlag: New York, 1994), Scrambling Techniques for CDMA Communications (Kluwer Publisher: Norwell, MA, 2001), Integrated Broadband Networks (Artech House: Norwood, MA, 2002), Broadband Wireless Access and Local Networks: Mobile WiMAX & WiFi (Artech House: Boston, Norwood, MA, 2008), and Wireless Communications Resource Management (John Wiley & Sons: Singapore, 2009). He holds 13 U.S. patents with five more patents pending. His current fields of interest include broadband networks, wireless networks, communication systems, and signal processing.

Dr. Lee received several best paper awards including the 1984 Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award from the Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Exceptional Contribution Awards from AT&T Bell Laboratories, a Distinguished Achievement Award from Korea Institute of Communication Sciences (KICS), the 2001 National Academy of Science (of Korea) Award, and the 2005 Kyung-am Academic Award. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea, a Member of Sigma Xi, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Communications, Broadcasting and Internet in the Convergence Era

Communications, Broadcasting and Internet were initially invented independently in different times for different purposes. However, in the long developmental process they have encountered, interacted, and finally begun to converge into a converged digital media. This process has been expedited by the digitization of source signals and packetization of information delivery. Today we observe the convergence occurring everywhere including devices, networks, services, and operators. In the talk, I will discuss how the digital convergence has gone through technological transformation, undergoing strong competition among different technologies in wireline as well as wireless areas. Then I will look into the distinctive characters of Internet that has survived as the winner of the fierce competition and the changes that Internet has brought to the convergence era. Further, I will try to envision the future beyond the communications-broadcasting-Internet convergence, which is expected to expand the convergence in broader scope, encompassing all media and information related fields. Finally, I will bring up issues to solve to make sustainable development possible in the beyond convergence era.