on March 4,2000 at Universal City Hilton Tower, Los Angeles, California has been successfully conducted. Thanks to our D-team, all sponsors, CCA members and guests, without your participation, this event simply couldn't have been done.
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Edward Y. Chang
CCA President
“Embracing
the New Millennium through Cyberspace”
Convention 2000 Conference Program Schedule
The Chinese-American Computer Association (CCA), a non-profit organization for Chinese IT professionals founded in 1982, will host its Convention 2000 at the Universal City Hilton in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 2000. As the goals of CCA are to promote image, technical know-how and networking within the Chinese communities, the CCA Board of Directors has decided to make it an exciting, unforgettable and significant event not only for Chinese-Americans but also other ethnic professionals. Coincidentally, this millennium and this Chinese dragon year coincide only once every 3000 years.
Along with the daytime programs which contains 4 concurrent tracks with 12 sessions covering entire spectrum of Cyber Technologies, we also have a special edition of the CCA Journal (2000 in print) to commemorate Convention 2000 and a gala "Rejoice Millennium Dragon" banquet featuring keynotes from Dr. Chang-Lin Tien and Dr. Denny Ko, a world famous performance from Melodia Sinica chorale and a world class band for our guests to enjoy and have fun.
Track One: Web and Dot-Com Chaired By Dr. David Liu
Session 1.1: Dot-Com Application Server Technologies Java versus Microsoft
by Dr. David Liu
Abstract
As
companies work to maintain or increase their competitive advantage in
the marketplace, the need to web-enable a spectrum of enterprise-wide
applications becomes critical. At the heart of this effort is the challenges
of integrating diverse application systems via web-based technologies.
The session will provide an overview of both the Java application server
technology and the Microsoft's application server technology. The session
conclude by examining the similarity and differences between the two application
server technologies.
David Liu, Ph.D.
Professor, Accounting and MIS
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8372
<david.liu@csun.edu>
Phone: 818.677.7435
Fax: 818.677.2456
Session
1.2: Building a world-class E-Commerce Customer Service
By Mr. Jim Cheung
Abstract
Internet industry
surveys ranks customer service the top reason in selecting Track Two: Telecommunication
Technology chaired by Dr. Frank Chang
an E-Commerce merchant. This session will analyze and evaluate various
E-Commerce customer service technologies and implementations. Specifically,
services that are unique to the Internet such as self-help, automated
service agents, email, and live help are compared with the traditional call
center services. We will look into the business decision-making criteria
to
build a successful customer service offering for a wide range of Internet
companies. In addition, we will take a close examination of a couple of
case
studies.
Jim Cheung
Director of Professional Services
Ask Jeeves, Inc.
<jim@neteffect.com>
4144 Lankershim Blvd, Suite 200
North Hollywood, CA 91602
(818) 752-6600, ext 5140
Session 2.1: "WDM Based Terabit Lightwave Systems Internet" by Dr. G. K. Chang (Bellcore),
Session 2.2: "CDMA for Wireless Internet" by Dr. Frank Lee (Gtran)
Abstract
Do you know why the QCOM's stock is so white hot? What is CDMA? What is the future of CDMA? This is the session which will answer all aforementioned questions. The first generation of wireless systems was characterized by Analog transmission technology. Although easy to deploy, it uses the bandwidth spectrum inefficiently. It is primarily used for voice transmission. The second-generation wireless technologies are GSM, CDMA and TDMA. GSM is primarily used in Europe and Asia, TDMA in the Americas and Japan and CDMA in Korea and the Americas. These technologies allow both voice and data transmission, however the data rates are below the rate offered by wired Modems. CDMA has started offering IS95A, IS95B, 1X and 2.5G HDR (High Data Rate) that would use the existing frequency spectrum and infrastructure to offer 14.4K, 64K, 156K and 2.4Mb/s data respectively. This data rate is comparable with a wired Modem or Cable Modem and would offer mobile access to the Internet. A similar data driven standard called EDGE is being offered to GSM/TDMA customers on existing spectrum and infrastructure. EDGE would offer data rates to 384Kb/s. These multiple technologies are converging towards a wideband CDMA standard that would allow data transmission rates of 1-3 Mb/s. This high-speed data will allow mobile terminals to access Internet traffic, video conferencing, digital television and other new emerging applications. However, the infrastructure costs and resolution of frequency spectrum in the US and Europe may delay the rollout of WCDMA to the rest of the world to 2002 or beyond.
About Dr. Frank Lee
With more than 20 years of high technology and engineering experience, Dr.
Frank S. Lee serves as president and CEO of GTRAN. Lee's industry
experience includes business development, product marketing and
development, technical leadership and strategic planning.
Lee has authored and co-authored more than 30 technical publications and
has made numerous presentations at technical conferences. Lee holds a
doctorate in electrical engineering and a master's in electrical engineering.
Session 2.3: "Integrated Transceiver Modules for Broadband Fiber Transmission Systems" by Dr. Ruai Yu (Gtran)I
Abstract
The advent of the internet has led to exponential growth in bandwidth
demand of the underlying optical transmission systems, and this trend will
continue well into the 21st century. SONET and SDH (Synchronous Digital
Hierarchy) have rapidly evolved to become the standards for worldwide fiber
optic based communications, with optical transmission rates increasing to
10 Gbit/s (OC-192) per channel/wavelength currently. Successful ubiquitous
deployment of these broadband transmission systems hinges upon reliable
supplies of high-performance, low-cost integrated optical-electrical (O/E)
transceiver modules. This talk will present the market driver and
technical challenges for development of these broadband integrated
transceiver modules.
About Dr. Ruai Yu
Ruai Yu received his BSEE from San Francisco State University in 1988, MSEE and Ph.D from University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991 and 1994,
respectively. From May 88 to Sept. 89, he was a research engineer at Ampex
Corporation. Under minimum supervision, he developed all hardware and software for a novel adaptive transversal equalizer for a 200 Mbit/s magnetic recording channel, resulting in significant bit-error-rate improvement. While he was a research assistant at UCSB from Oct. 89 to Feb. 94, he developed a network analyzer and a sampling oscilloscope for operation upto 200 GHz. He also demonstrated world's fastest electronic pulse shaper with <3 ps rise/fall times. From Feb. 94 to July 99, he was with Rockwell Science Center, where he became manager of the high-speed mixed-signal ICs department in 1997. He has engaged and led design efforts in development of numerous high-speed integrated circuits with advanced Si and IIIV technologies for RF and fiber-optic communication and data conversion applications. Since July 99 he has been with GTRAN, developing integrated transceiver modules for broadband fiber-optic transmission systems. Dr. Yu has authored or co-authored over 70 publications in the field of high-speed circuits and systems, and is the recipient of the 1997 IEEE Microwave Prize.
Session 2.4: "High speed Integrated Circuits for Optical Nettworks" by Dr. K.C. Wang (Conexant)
Abstract
Optical networks offer ultrahigh capacity transmission and switching of voice, data, and video signal. They constitute the backbone of telecom and datacom systems to meet ever increasing bandwidth demand of global internet and multimedia traffic. High speed electronic circuits are key components in optical networks. Tremendous efforts and resources have been invested in the development of various fast transistor technologies and integrated circuits for optical networks. 60 Gb/s transmission ICs and 160 Gb/s switch ICs have been demonstrated in research labs. Commercial lightwave products using high speed circuits of 10 Gb/s and beyond are readily available. This paper will present the recent development of these high speed circuits.
About Dr. K. C. Wang
Dr. K. C. Wang received a B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree in Physics from California Institute of Technology in 1979. He was a research physicist at University of California, Irvine, investigating physics of neutrinos. He joined Rockwell Science Center in 1985 and was the Manager of High Speed Circuits Department there. He is currently a Division Director of Advanced Products and Technologies at Conexant Systems. He is responsible for the development of new IC products for optical communications. He has authored or co-authored more than 130 journal and conference publications in electronics and physics. Dr. Wang is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the American Physical Society. He was a recipient of Rockwell’s 1994 Engineer of the Year Awards.
Track Three: Database Technology chaired by Mr. Philip C.I. Chen
Session 3.1: "Data Warehouse Technology, present and future"
by Ms. Minnie Chou , Director, AMGEN
Session 3.2: "Oracle 8i Overview"
by Mr. Philip Chen
In this session you will learn basic concept of the hottest database management system available to us today. Why it is so white hot?
Track Four: "Java Programming Language one-day workshop"
by Mr. Steve Baily, Director, Information Technology, 20 th Century Fox Inc.
This class will help IT professionals achieving their $100,000 annual salary goals. The class usually costs more than $200 per day now is only $20 for member and $30 for general public.
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Denny Ko (one of eToys Founders) on 'The road to the first billion'
Plenary Speaker Dr. Chang-Lin Chang (Former chancellor of U.C. Berkeley) on
'The
new Era'