BLACKSBURG, Va., Sept. 1, 2004 – The Center for Wireless Telecommunications (CWT) at Virginia Tech will hold its 2004 Wireless Opportunities Workshop (WOW) on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 26 and 27, in Owens Banquet Hall on campus.
This workshop features a variety of speakers who will showcase the latest technological developments, business opportunities, and trends in the field of wireless telecommunications. Presentations will highlight cognitive radio, broadband wireless, interference temperatures, and public safety technologies.
The event begins on Sunday afternoon with a tutorial on low power technologies; RFID, and ZigBee™.
The Wireless Entrepreneur of the Year for Virginia (WEYV) award is announced at the conference. Past recipients have included leaders at Xtreme Spectrum (now Motorola), Winstar, and Nextel and Governor Mark Warner.
The deadline to register online is Tuesday, Sept. 14. For more information about this workshop, visit: http://www.cwt.vt.edu/news/wow/wow2004.htm; also see the Aug. 24article in The Roanoke Times, "Cognitive Radios Would Deliver Signal" at http://www.roanoke.com/business/9681.html.
Founded in 1872 as a land-grant college, Virginia Tech has grown to become among the largest universities in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Today, Virginia Tech’s eight colleges are dedicated to putting knowledge to work through teaching, research, and outreach activities and to fulfilling its vision to be among the top research universities in the nation. At its 2,600-acre main campus located in Blacksburg and other campus centers in Northern Virginia, Southwest Virginia, Hampton Roads, Richmond, and Roanoke, Virginia Tech enrolls more than 28,000 full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students from all 50 states and more than 100 countries in 180 academic degree programs.