Understanding science

10: Communications Technology - Extending the Limits

Seminar date: 16 May 2003

• Introduction: Communications Technology
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Enabling technologies: future applications

• Professor Ian Leslie
  Network building blocks: the web and beyond
• Professor Ian White
  Optical fibre and cable communication technologies
• Professor Barry Evans
  Future mobile communications and software systems

Topic 2 Exploiting communications technology

• Dr Richard Durbin
  Biomedical applications: genetic data in health and research
• Dr David Cleevely
  Impact of the new technology on the organisation of institutions

Topic 3 Economic issues

• Professor Frank Kelly
  Network structure and innovation
• Professor Lord Currie
  Regulation and technology neutrality

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 10: Communications Technology - Extending the Limits
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/communications/

Seminar presented: 16/05/2003