[gu-new] (02/18/07) Columbia University/Prof. Eli Noam's seminar on International Network on 2/14/07

[Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.]

<<February 18, 2007>>
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Prof. Eli M. Noam <noam at columbia.edu>

Jaroslaw K. Ponder <Jaroslaw.Ponder at itu.int>

Bjorn Wellenius <wellenius at attglobal.net>

Kazu Yamaguchi <kazuy at mbx.mainichi.co.jp>
 
Kiyoshi Nakamura <Kn2166 at 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 Hughes¹ (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 GUS¹ 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;
>> ³Interview with Takeshi Utsumi² 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;
> 
> ³Electronic Global University System and Services²
> http://tinyurl.com/27ykrf
> 
> This Chapter 1 includes some Japanese newspaper clippings, albeit dated almost
> a quarter century ago.

>> BTW, Chapter 2 describes many ³Global Lecture Hall (GLH)²
>> 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 ³Lord Perry Award for
Excellence in Distance Education² 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/> <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 at columbia.edu>
> Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:57:42 -0500
> To: "Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D." <utsumi at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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.)
*
* Laureate of Lord Perry Award for Excellence in Distance Education
*
* Founder and V.P. for Technology and Coordination of
*
*   Global University System (GUS)
*
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