An Entrepreneurial View of Wireless Technology

Mr. Michael Hathaway

Austin Ventures, Inc.

Friday, September 6th, 3:00 PM, ENS 302

Abstract

The wireless industry is a dynamic and complex one. It's an area where the data, broadcast and telephony worlds are colliding and converging. While there are ample opportunities to develop and innovate technology in this space, there's also a complex business and market climate to contend with as well. Mr. Hathaway will discuss how to approach the opportunities in this rich and diverse industry with a vision of the possibilities, tempered with a realistic view of the business and market realities.

Biography

Mr. Hathaway has over 20 years of experience in the high tech industry ranging from analog and digital audio electronics to networking and telecom. He started his career in the audio electronics industry in the early 1980's where he did work with analog and digital audio DSP technologies. While at Lexicon He established the successful LXP series of digital audio effects processors. Mr. Hathaway has worked in the telecom and networking industry at such companies as BBN, Digital Products, Ascom/Timeplex, Xedia, and Agere(Lucent). While at BBN, he spearheaded research and development in IP router forwarding engine technology for the DARPA funded Multi-Gigabit Router program. He was Co-founder , CTO and VP of Engineering of IronBridge Networks, Inc, a Boston area core router startup company, and most recently was Chief Technology Officer of Agere (recently acquired by Lucent Microelectronics) where he headed up a pioneering team developing first and second generation Network Processor architectures. Currently he holds the position of Venture Partner at Austin Ventures.

A list of Wireless Networking and Communications Seminars is available at from the ECE department Web pages under "Seminars". The Web address for the Wireless Networking and Communications Seminars is http://signal.ece.utexas.edu/seminars