<<February 18, 2007>>
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Prof. Eli M. Noam <noam@columbia.edu>
Jaroslaw K. Ponder <Jaroslaw.Ponder@itu.int>
Bjorn Wellenius <wellenius@attglobal.net>
Kazu Yamaguchi <kazuy@mbx.mainichi.co.jp>
Kiyoshi Nakamura <Kn2166@columbia.edu>
Dear Eli:
(1) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I) with kind words.
It was certainly my great honor and pleasure to have had an opportunity to
speak about our Global University System (GUS) project at your International
Network seminar in the afternoon of 2/14th.
Because your request of my talk was unexpected, it was totally extemporaneous
and hence was very poor speech.
I sincerely regret that I totally forgot to access my slide presentation out of
our web site. The following was the one I intended to use;
Utsumi,
T., "Global Collaborative Research and Development"
http://tinyurl.com/2vy7he
I will promise you that I would do much better job with more preparation when
you would ever ask me to do the same again.
(2) Your slide presentation was excellent indeed. It was very interesting
with the histories of inventions of each of major telecom technologies.
You may include the Inventor of Wireless/Ms. Hedy Lamarr (<http://tinyurl.com/2gs38f> and <http://tinyurl.com/yu9evj> -- Pls
read David HughesÕ (my longtime friend) story how she came up the idea of
spread spectrum technology in this URL). After the US Federal
Communication Commission (FCC) de-regulated the frequency for spread-spectrum
in 1985, its patent was released from the Dept of Defense (DOD). Prof.
Dog Karl of Ohio State University then incorporated its technology into a used
IBM/PC, and used for his connection from his home to his school (which I once
visited to witness). He sold the technology to Lucent, which made its
worldwide market up to 80% or so with ORINOCO — the rest was history as
you know well.
Dear Jaroslaw and Bjorn:
(3) It was certainly my great pleasure to have met with you at that time.
Your presentations were very interesting. May I ask you to send me the
files of your slide presentations?
Dear Jaroslaw:
(4) Sorry we did not have ample time to discuss about your new project which
you mentioned of some possibility of our GUSÕ cooperation. Pls feel free
to inform it to me. We would be very happy if we can be of any help to
you.
Dear Bjorn:
(5) It was good
to know that you are from Chile.
You may then be interested in the following paper;
Juan
Somavia, DG of ILO.
"Exploring the High Road to Technology and
Globalization"
http://tinyurl.com/2pcs23
As you may know, Dr. Somavia is your country man, a good friend of Tapio Varis
(who is the acting president of our GUS) and a strong supporter of our GUS
project.
BTW, this paper is in our following book;
Global
Peace Through The Global University System
Tapio Varis -
Takeshi Utsumi - William Klemm (Eds.)
University of Tampere, Finland 2003
ISBN 951-44-5695-5
The entire contents of this book can be retrieved at;
http://tinyurl.com/kofpf
In the bottom line of this page, you can find the
following;
ÒInterview with Takeshi UtsumiÓ by Parker Rossman
(6) In May of 1989, I was invited to a conference in Cordoba, Argentina with a
travel fund through the Americas Society in Manhattan, which came from a lady
in Santiago, Chile. After the conference, I then arranged email accounts
for our colleagues in various Latin American countries, e.g., Venezuela,
Mexico, Organization of American States (OAS), etc., etc. to initiate the use
of digital telecom, which total usages amounted almost USD 1 million a year (*)
— since I worked on the extensions of Telenet (a commercial version of
ARPANET and a forerunner of the current Internet) to many Asian countries and
Japan before (see below), Sprint gave me the privilege to distribute email
accounts to our colleagues free of charge.
(*) Around that time, there were not many data telecom networks in Latin
America with packet-switching technology, and not many people used personal
computers yet, but only fax machines connected to analog Plain Old Telephone
Service (POTS) networks. Compared with TCP/IP protocol of the current
Internet (initiated by Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn), X25 protocol (which was a part
of the International Standard Organization/Open System Infrastructure (ISO/OSI)
protocol) enabled us to send email msgs to fax machine anywhere around the
world, which the current Internet still cannot do. Subsequently, our
colleagues in Latin America really appreciated the free email account I gave
for their daily use — some told me later that they had to replace the fax
sheet roll every week to receive msgs!! In a sense, they initiated the
use of data telecommunication in Latin America, and I was one of major
promoters of its use. When I was then invited to a conference in
Monterrey, Mexico, I was surprised to be treated as a VIP with my photo in the
front page of major local newspaper, my presentation in major TV and radio
news, etc.
Dear Mr. Yamaguchi and Prof. Nakamura:
(7) It was my great pleasure to have met with you at the seminar. Sorry
we did not have enough time to introduce ourselves each other at that time.
Although I mentioned briefly during the seminar, my effort of extending
packet-switching data telecom network to various Asian and the Pacific
countries, particularly Japan, and of de-regulating the Japanese telecom
policies for the use of email and de-monopolization and privatization of
Japanese telecom industries were briefly described in the first half part of
the following paper;
Takeshi
Utsumi, GLOSAS/USA
"Globally Collaborative Environmental Peace Gaming"
http://tinyurl.com/k2c7a
and more fully in;
Chapter 1 of my following book draft;
ÒElectronic Global University System and ServicesÓ
http://tinyurl.com/27ykrf
This Chapter 1 includes some Japanese newspaper clippings, albeit dated almost
a quarter century ago.
BTW, Chapter 2 describes many ÒGlobal Lecture Hall (GLH)Ó
multipoint-to-multipoint, multimedia interactive videoconferencing
demonstrations with the use of many (sometimes with 11 channels on 9
transponders) satellites ranging from New Zealand to Moscow and many points in
between.
Thanks to this effort,
I received the prestigious ÒLord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance
EducationÓ in the fall of 1994 directly and personally from Lord Perry.
As you may know, he was the creator of the Open University/UK, which has
been emulated in more than 50 countries around the world (including Japan Air
University). One year senior recipient of the same award was Dr. Chaviz,
the UN Ambassador and former Minister of Education of Colombia, and the two
year senior recipient was Arthur C. Clarke, the inventor of satellite. I
was quite honored to be ranked at the same social status as they are.
The Chapter 3 of the above book draft is the transcript of
my acceptance speech of the Lord Perry Award with explanation of the logo of
our GLOSAS/USA.
(8) You may also be interested in browsing through the following paper;
Takeshi
Utsumi, P. Tapio Varis, and W. R. Klemm
"Creating Global University System"
http://tinyurl.com/sfgm7
This and the paper of the Item (7) above are in our book mentioned in the Item
(5).
(9) Current activities are mainly with our colleagues in Novosibirsk, Siberia,
Russia, to promote the usage of GLORIAD <http://tinyurl.com/33yl57> <http://www.gloriad.org/> -- see
also GUS/Siberia <http://tinyurl.com/3chpda>,
and some African countries, e.g., Sierra Leone, etc.
(10) Lastly, I took the liberty of
admitting you into our list so that you will be kept updated with our daily
progress. Pls enjoy reading it.
Pls feel free to contact me.
Best, Tak
ATTACHMENT
I
From:
"Phillips,
Loy" <sr2132@columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 17
Feb 2007 16:57:42 -0500
To: "Takeshi
Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi@columbia.edu>
Conversation: Thank
You
Subject: Thank
You
Dear
Takeshi,
On behalf of my colleagues at CITI and my students, I thank you for your
participation in my class.
Your insightful comments gave a special dimension and depth to the class that
could have only come from an industry professional such as yourself. The class
clearly loved it. I hope that we will have future opportunities to work
together.
Many thanks again,
Eli
Eli Noam
Professor of Finance and Economics
Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall 1-A
New York, NY 10027
T 212 854 8332
F 212 854 1471
www.citi.columbia.edu
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Prof. Eli M. Noam
Director
Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Professor of Finance and Economics
Graduate School of Business
Uril Hall 1-A
3022 Broadway
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027-6902
212-854-8332
Fax: 212-854-1471
noam@columbia.edu
www.citi.columbia.edu
www.vii.org
Jaroslaw K. Ponder
Policy Analysist
Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU)
International Telecommunication Union
Place des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 20
Switzerland
Tel: 00 41 22 730 60 65
Fax: +41-22-730-6453
Jaroslaw.Ponder@itu.int
http://www.itu.int
Bjorn Wellenius
Telecom Advisor
World Bank
8712 Camille Drive
Potomac, MD 20854 U.S.A.
tel: +1 301 983 1682
wellenius@attglobal.net
Kazu Yamaguchi
Project Headquarters
Solution Business Team
THE MAINICIH NEWSPAPERS
1-1-1, Hitotsubashi
Chlyoda-ku. Tokyo 100-8051, Japan
TEL: +81-3-3212-2584
FAX:+81-3-3211-4077
kazuy@mbx.mainichi.co.jp
http : //www.mainichi-msn.co.jp
Kiyoshi Nakamura
Professor & Doctor of Science
Faculty of International Liberal Studies
Waseda University
1-6-1, Nishiwaseda
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo, Japan 169-8050
Tel & Fax: 03-5286-2004
Nakamura-kiyoshi@waseda.jp
Or
Visiting Scholar
Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
Graduate School of Business
Columbia University
Uris Hall
3022 Broadway, Room 1A
New York NY 10027-6902
212 854 4222
Fax 212 854-1471
Kn2166@columbia.edu
http://www.citi.columbia.edu
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* Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E., Chairman, GLOSAS/USA
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* (GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A.)
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* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
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* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of
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* Global University System (GUS)
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* 43-23 Colden Street, Flushing, NY 11355-5913, U.S.A.
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