Sun Microsystems hosts the event at their beautiful Santa Clara campus.

Berkeley in Silicon Valley Symposium Engineering a Better World Saturday, April 24, 2004 8:15 a.m. - 1:45 p.m. Sun Microsystems Conference Center Palm Drive at Lafayette Street, Santa Clara Sponsored by the College of Engineering

The keynote address was given by Hong Lu, Chairman and CEO of UTStarcom. Windows Media (high-bandwidth) Windows Media (low-bandwidth) RealPlayer Presentation (pdf)	Our plenary session, Bringing Information Technology to the Developing World, was moderated by Dean Richard Newton. Windows Media (high-bandwidth) Windows Media (low-bandwidth) RealPlayer

Program
8:15 a.m.	Registration & Continental Breakfast: Grand Auditorium
8:50 a.m.	Welcome: Grand Auditorium Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering
9:00 a.m.	Keynote Address: Hong Lu CE '78, Chairman, CEO & Founder, UTStarcom One of the fastest growing technology companies in the world with revenues of $2 billion in 2003, UTStarcom sells its telecom equipment solutions to operators in both high growth and established telecommunications markets around the world.
9:50 a.m.	Session I: Building 5 -- (Columbia, Heidelberg, & Stanford Rooms) Gregory Fenves, Professor & Department Chair, CEE Dress Rehearsal for the Big One: Large Scale Earthquake Simulations Roger Howe, Professor and Associate Chair, EECS - Professor, ME Micromachines on the Head of a Pin Yuri Suzuki, Associate Professor, MSE Good News for Pack Rats: the Explosion in Magnetic Data Storage
10:30 a.m.	Networking Break & Student Poster Session
11:00 a.m.	Session II: Building 5 -- (Columbia, Heidelberg, & Stanford Rooms) Dan Fletcher, Assistant Professor, BioE The Mechanics of Healthy Cells: What's Under the Hood? William Kastenberg, Professor, NE Gloria Hauser-Kastenberg, Attorney Engineering Ethics and the Impact of Technology Vivek Subramanian, Assistant Professor, EECS Printed Electronics: on Plastic, Paper, and Even Cloth!
12:00 p.m.	Lunch
12:50 p.m.	Plenary Session : Bringing Information Technology to the Developing World More than 4 billion people in the world earn less than $2000/year. How can we use information and communication technology to create opportunities for them to improve the quality of their lives. Panelists: Eric Brewer, Associate Professor, EECS Tom Kalil, Special Assistant to the Chancellor, Science & Technology Presentation (pdf) Richard Newton, Dean, College of Engineering Isha Ray, Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources
1:30 p.m.	Concluding Remarks
1:45 p.m.	Adjourn