ADVISORY/ Dr. Stephen Senturia to Deliver Keynote At COMS 2002.Business/Technology Editors COMS COMS 3Com Corporation (stock symbol) COMS Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist COMS Continuous Opacity Monitoring Systems COMS City of Manchester Stadium (UK) 2002 ADVISORY...for Tuesday (Sept. 10) WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 27, 2002 Globally Recognized Pioneer of MEMS (MicroElectroMechanical Systems) Tiny mechanical devices that are built onto semiconductor chips and are measured in micrometers. In the research labs since the 1980s, MEMS devices began to materialize as commercial products in the mid-1990s. Field to Speak About Building a Company from the Academic Stage to a Commercial Venture Polychromix(R), a privately held advanced optical networking Communications between computers, telephones and other electronic devices using light. An optical network is far more reliable and has far greater potential transmission capacity than networking in the electrical domain. See optical fiber. technology company, today announced that Dr. Stephen Senturia, the company's co-founder, president and chairman, will deliver a keynote address keynote address n. An opening address, as at a political convention, that outlines the issues to be considered. Also called keynote speech. Noun 1. at the 7th International Conference on the Commercialization of Micro and NanoSystems (COMS 2002). COMS 2002 will be held at the Marriott Eagle Crest Resort in Ypsilanti, Michigan “Ypsilanti” redirects here. For other uses, see Ypsilanti (disambiguation). Ypsilanti (Ǐp'-sǐ-lǎn-tē) (IPA pronunciation: [ˌɪp sɪ 'læn ti] from September 8 - 12, 2002.
Who: Dr. Stephen Senturia, former professor of electrical engineering
at MIT and current co-founder, president and chairman
of Polychromix
What: "From Academia to Commercial Venture: A Case Study on
Polychromix"
When: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 at 8:30 a.m. ET
Dr. Senturia, globally recognized as a pioneer and leader in the microelectromechanical systems See MEMS. (MEMS) field, will share his experience leading a team of scientists from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology , Sandia National Labs and Honeywell in the development of the Polychromator, an award-winning MEMS device for chemical sensing applications. He will further explain how this technology is the basis for Polychromix, a company that is developing a suite of Channel Management Solutions that will enable dynamically configurable optical networks. As a professor of electrical engineering electrical engineering: see engineering. electrical engineering Branch of engineering concerned with the practical applications of electricity in all its forms, including those of electronics. at MIT for more than 35 years, Dr. Senturia has been appointed to numerous prominent positions, including the Barton L. Weller Professorship. Throughout his distinguished career of designing and producing novel micro-fabricated devices and systems, Dr. Senturia has consulted with a broad range of leading technology companies. Most recently, he served on the founding Advisory Board for Caliper caliper Instrument that consists of two adjustable legs or jaws for measuring the dimensions of material parts. Spring calipers have an adjusting screw and nut; firm-joint calipers use friction at the joint to hold the legs unmoving. Technologies. He has also consulted with several optical component companies, including CoreTek (purchased by Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony ). An entrepreneur for more than 20 years, Dr. Senturia also founded Micromet Instruments--since merged with Holometrix and acquired by Metrisa GmbH--to commercialize a microdielectrometer developed at MIT. Dr. Senturia has authored or co-authored more than 200 publications and two text books, and has 25 patents and several patents-pending. The MEMS/MST/Micromachines market is one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. A recent Roger Grace Associates/Nexus study has reported that the worldwide market will grow from approximately $14.2 billion (U.S.) in 2000 to a projected $30.4 billion (U.S.) by the year 2004. About COMS 2002 The International Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems Conference (COMS) is in its seventh year. Developed and organized by the Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation (MANCEF MANCEF Micro and Nanotechnology Commercialization Education Foundation ), the conference will provide a forum for the education, dissemination, and sharing of information to assist users, suppliers, service/equipment providers, investors and analysts in their successful introduction of their products and services to the micro and nanosystems market. Topics addressed at the COMS conferences include marketing, manufacturing, management of technology and capital formation. For more information, visit www.coms2002.org. About Polychromix Polychromix, a privately held advanced optical networking technology company headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, is developing modular optical subsystems based on an innovative core technology platform that will enable dynamically configurable optical networks. Polychromix's suite of Channel Management Solutions will address the capital-expense and operating-expense challenges that both carriers and network systems vendors face. Additionally, they will help enable the creation and rapid provisioning of new revenue-generating services. Carriers will be able to dynamically provision and control optical channels remotely from a network operating center, effectively replacing "truck rolls" (sending out maintenance trucks) with "key strokes" (entered at a network operating center terminal). For more information, visit www.polychromix.com. Polychromix is a registered trademark of Polychromix, Inc. |
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