Gilder and N.J. telecommunications leaders to kick off "New Jersey Telecom Turnpike" forum at Stevens December 10th
New Industry Forum to Bring NY/NJ Region Telecommunications Community Together
George Gilder, author of Microcosm (1989) and Life After Television (1992), and a noted futurist, will join state telecommunications leaders at Stevens Institute of Technology on Dec. 10, at 4:00 p.m. to kick off the "New Jersey Telecom Turnpike" forum. This inaugural event will be held in the university’s DeBaun Auditorium, located on Fifth Street, between River and Hudson Streets, in Hoboken, N.J. The media is invited to this event.
The forum is designed to bring the metropolitan region's diverse telecommunications community together to discuss emerging technologies and other issues affecting the industry.
Organizers invite communications executives, researchers, developers, inventors, investors, marketers, programmers, academics, consultants and entrepreneurs in the two states to attend this first meeting. The New Jersey Telecom Turnpike is sponsored by isen.com, Inc., and the Advanced Telecommunications Institute (ATI) of Stevens.
To register for this event, please visit http://www.ati.stevens.edu/njtt, call 908-389-0177, or email robin@isen.com.
WHAT: Inaugural Meeting of the New Jersey Telecom Turnpike
WHO: New Jersey’s Leading Telecommunications Executives, Researchers and Professors
WHEN: Dec. 10, 1998, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Stevens Institute of Technology, DeBaun Auditorium, Edwin A. Stevens Hall, Fifth Street (Between River and Hudson Streets) Hoboken, N.J. (Minutes north of the Hoboken PATH station and across the Hudson River Street from Manhattan).
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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