**"From RFID to Smart Dust: The Expanding Market for Wireless Sensor
Technologies"**

**U.S. Department of Commerce**

**April 1, 2004**

**Panelist Bios**

[Opening Remarks]{.underline}:

**[MARIO CARDULLO]{.underline}** serves as the Counselor, Technology and
Entrepreneurism, to the Under Secretary of Commerce for the
International Trade Administration. In 2003, Mr. Cardullo was nominated
for the Presidential National medal of Technology for his invention of
the RFID Tag and conceiving the mobile communication satellite concept.
Mr. Cardullo was the first Planning Officer of the Communications
Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), where one of his achievements was the
conception of the Maritime and Mobile Communications Satellite Program
(IMARSAT) and the highly successful Rescue Satellite System. The eights
years prior to joining COMSAT, Mr. Cardullo was involved in liquid
rocket propulsion R&D including the development of the variable thrust
concept used by the Lunar Lander (LEM) and the variable thrust plug
engine for the Lance missile system. Mr. Carullo also served in the
Apollo Program as the Senior Propulsion System Engineer for all aspects
of liquid rocket propulsion from R&D to program management.

Mr. Cardullo has served as Senior Research Associate and Adjunct
Professor of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in
the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Northern
Virginia Center and in the Pamplin College of Business for 15 years. He
is a Registered Professional Engineer. He is also an Associate Fellow of
the AIAA, senior member of the IEEE and holds patents in electronics and
mechanical devices and systems. During his career he has published over
130 articles and papers in professional and technical journals. Mr.
Cardullo holds a BME, MME and MEA degrees and has done considerable
doctoral studies at Polytechnic University, Steven's Institute of
Technology, and MIT.

[Panel 1]{.underline}: **The Market and Uses for Sensor Technologies**

**[Jon Brendsel]{.underline}** is the Director, EPC Network Services, at
Verisign. Jon Brendsel is responsible for launching the new RFID Network
Services business at VeriSign, Inc. Under Brendsel's leadership,
VeriSign has been widely recognized as a thought leader in the field of
EPC Network services. Also during his tenure, EPCglobal awarded VeriSign
the contract to manage the root of the Object Naming Service, a critical
component of the EPC Network. Prior to joining VeriSign, Brendsel held
numerous senior technical, marketing, and product development positions
at AOL Time Warner, where he led the Communications Product Group for
email products. During his tenure, he brought several new services to
market, including the widely acclaimed hosted address book service and
Webmail for the AOL, Netscape and CompuServe brands which all
experienced adoption rates unprecedented in AOL history. And, as the
Director of Marketing for the Internet and Online Media group at AOL,
Brendsel focused on technology-driven customer acquisition programs,
contributing more than 200,000 new customers annually. Brendsel
graduated Beta Gamma Sigma with a Masters of Management from
Northwestern University and holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical
Engineering from California Institute of Technology.

**[Lyle Ginsburg]{.underline}** is the Managing Partner for Technology
Innovation in Accenture\'s Global Products Group. With more than 20
years experience identifying new technology trends and bringing them to
the market, Lyle is now focused on finding the value of Auto-id and EPC
technologies for Accenture clients in retail, consumer goods,
transportation, hospitality, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, automotive
and industrial equipment. He has a computer science degree from Northern
Illinois University.

**[Ralph M. Kling]{.underline}** is currently the principal investigator
of the \"Intel® Mote\" strategic research project in Intel´s Corporate
Technology Group. In this endeavor, he is leading a small team to create
the next generation of self-organizing wireless sensor network nodes
(also called \"motes\"). This research is done in close cooperation with
the Intel Research Laboratory at Berkeley which has done pioneering work
in the area. Ralph has over 12 years of Intel experience, primarily in
computer architecture research and development groups. Previous
assignments include managing the Itanium® Processor Family
microarchitecture/performance group and the Microprocessor Research Lab
(MRL) microarchitecture/performance research group. Major contributions
in these roles involved the development and evaluation of
microarchitecture components for the Itanium® 2 processor. In addition,
the team created Intel´s first modular and cycle accurate execution
driven performance and power simulation environment which has now been
proliferated in the company. Ralph obtained his Master´s and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His thesis
research focused on simulated evolution, a new global optimization
method for integrated circuit designs. Prior to coming to the US on a
Fulbright scholarship, Ralph studied electrical engineering in his
hometown of Hannover in Germany.

**[THomAS M. McAuliffe]{.underline}** is VP of Strategy and Business
Development for Secure Asset Solutions (SAS), a startup business within
Motorola. SAS was formed last year to address the need to improve
productivity and security in the global supply network. SAS will provide
solutions that give increased visibility into asset location and status,
and use that information to reduce costs, increase sales, and reduce the
risk of supply chain disruptions. Tom has been at Motorola since 1989,
and has held a number of other positions at both corporate and business
unit levels in strategy, business development and operations. Prior to
Motorola, Tom held product management positions at AT&T in the area of
data communications and data networking. He began his career in Bell
Laboratories as a software developer for electronic switching systems.

**[Ron Moser]{.underline}** is responsible for Strategic Applications
for RFID at Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. His current responsibility is for the
implementation of RFID within Wal-Mart\'s distribution centers and
stores. He is a member of several Industry Standards groups, including:
The Physical Technical Requirements Group (PTRG) with GSMP and
EPCglobal\'s Business Action (BAG) and Software Action Groups (SAG) for
establishing RFID specifications and standards Ron Moser has been with
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. for 29 years, and has served in a variety of roles
in their logistics division.

**[Robert Poor]{.underline}** is the Chief Technology Officer at Ember.
Prior to founding Ember, Robert Poor was a doctoral student at the MIT
Media Lab, where he developed Embedded Networking, a new class of
wireless network that enables inexpensive, scalable, easily-deployed
connections for common manufactured goods. Mr. Poor has accrued over
twenty-five years of technical and management-level experience from
Silicon Valley including LucasFilm\'s precursor to Pixar, Stanford
Artificial Intelligence, Lucid, NeXT, and pcode. He has repeatedly built
strong technical teams and developed efficient organizational structures
that maximize revenues. He is a technical editor for the IEEE 802.15.4
standards specification. He received a patent for self-organizing
networks in 2000 and was awarded his Ph.D. from MIT in 2001.

**[Piyush Sodha]{.underline}** as President and CEO of Matrics, Inc.,
has led several highly successful companies, having served as CEO of LCC
International and President and CEO of NextLinx. He sold his most recent
wireless technology venture, Wireless Home, to Western Multiplex
Corporation.

**[C. STEWART VERDERY, JR.]{.underline}** was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate on June 19, 2003 as the first Assistant Secretary for Border and
Transportation Security Policy and Planning at the Department of
Homeland Security. In this capacity, Verdery is the principal advisor to
Border and Transportation Security Under Secretary Asa Hutchinson for
policy development in the substantive areas within the BTS Directorate,
including immigration and customs inspections and investigations, cargo
and trade policy, transportation security, counternarcotics, and federal
law enforcement training. Verdery frequently represents the Department
of Homeland Security before Congress and private sector bodies, and on
official government policy review boards and working groups. Verdery was
General Counsel to United States Senate Assistant Republican Leader Don
Nickles (R-OK) from October 1998 until March of 2002. As a member of the
Republican leadership staff team, Verdery played a major role in the
Congress on a wide range of policy issues including crime and law
enforcement, commerce, judicial nominations, constitutional law,
campaign finance, and telecommunications. As part of his leadership
duties, Verdery handled lead staff duties for the Senate Republican High
Tech Task Force, the Republican leadership\'s outreach arm to the
technology community. Prior to joining Senator Nickles\'s leadership
staff, Verdery served as counsel to two Senate committees and to Senator
John Warner (R-VA). While working for Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on the
Judiciary Committee in 1998. In addition to his government service,
Verdery was the Senior Legislative

Counsel for the government affairs and public policy office representing
Universal entertainment in Washington, D.C from 2002 to 2003.

[Panel 2]{.underline}: **Policy Issues Related to Sensor Technologies**

**[Paula Bruening]{.underline}** is Staff Counsel for the Center for
Democracy and Technology, where she specializes in privacy and free
expression issues. Before joining CDT, Ms. Bruening served as Senior
Attorney-Advisor for the Office of Chief Counsel, National
Telecommunications and Information Administration, US Department of
Commerce and worked closely with the White House on Administration's
e-commerce policy. Ms. Bruening began her career in information policy
at the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment, where she
participated in studies on encryption, computer security, intellectual
property and privacy. She has spoken extensively in the United States
and in Europe on information policy issues, and served as an onsite
consultant to the Organization for International Cooperation and
Development in Paris, France. She earned her law degree from Case
Western Reserve University School of Law.

**[Sandra R. (Sandy) Hughes]{.underline}** serves as the Global Privacy
Executive (CPO) at the Procter & Gamble Company, headquartered in
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Procter & Gamble\'s privacy program has been
designed and implemented to promote trust among consumers, employees and
other constituencies by protecting individual\'s rights to privacy as
their own, while at the same time providing superior products and
services to meet their needs. In this role, Sandy reports to the
Vice-Chairman of the Board and the CIO.

**[Ari Juels]{.underline}** is principal research scientist at RSA
Laboratories, where he oversees the various data-security projects of
the applied research program. While RFID security and privacy have been
a recent emphasis of his research, Dr. Juels has also published papers
in the last several years on topics including denial-of-service
countermeasures, Internet privacy protection, electronic voting,
biometric security, and user authentication. Dr. Juels has participated
on the program committees of a number of technical conferences, and
recently served as program chair for Financial Cryptography 2004. His is
presently serving as a member of the editorial board of the Handbook of
Information Security, co-organizer of the DIMACS Workshop on Electronic
Voting, and president of the International Financial Cryptography
Association. Dr. Juels received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at U.C.
Berkeley.

**[Elliot Maxwell]{.underline}** is a corporate strategist and attorney
who consults and writes on the intersection of business, technology and
public policy in telecommunications and electronic commerce. Maxwell has
split his career between the private and public sectors, providing
corporate strategy advice in the office of the Chairman of Pacific
Telesis Group, advising two different chairmen of the Federal
Communications Commission and serving as the principle advisor on the
Internet and electronic commerce to U.S. Secretaries of Commerce Daley
and Mineta. He is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the e-business
research Center at Penn State University, and a Fellow of the Center for
the Study of the American Government at Johns Hopkins University. He
chairs the International Policy Advisory Council to MIT's Auto ID Center
and EPCglobal, the entity implementing RFID technology as a successor to
bar codes. Mr. Maxwell is a graduate of Brown University and the Yale
Law School.

**[Paul Moskowitz]{.underline}** is a Research Staff Member at the IBM
Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, NY. He holds a Ph.D. in physics and
is a registered professional engineer. Paul has 54 United States
patents. During his career, Paul has worked on a variety projects
including wireless applications, radio frequency identification (RFID),
and automotive telematics. Thirty of Paul\'s patents are in the area of
RFID or wireless technology. He has represented IBM on the Bluetooth
Automotive standards committee. He is now working with a group
developing an IBM implementation of RFID for the supply chain.

**[Ravi Rajapakse]{.underline}** is the Chief Technology Officer at Savi
Technology. Ravi was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering at
U.S. Wireless. While there, he managed the development of a pioneering
technology for pinpointing the location of cellular phones. He also
developed the nationwide infrastructure for the deployment of this
technology. Prior to this, he was at Ventritex, Inc., a successful
start-up, where he managed the development of advanced medical
electronic products. Ventritex was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the most
successful medical device IPO at the time. Earlier in his career, Ravi
was Manager of engineering design and development at Buxco Electronics,
Inc. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Cambridge
University and an M.S. in computer engineering from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.

**[SteveN J. Winter]{.underline}** is Senior Vice President, Global
Services & Intellectual Property at Intermec and is a Corporate Vice
President of Intermec's parent company, Unova. In the Global Services
role Mr. Winter is responsible for Intermec's profitable service
business managing all aspects of global product support and maintenance.
Mr. Winter is also responsible for managing Intermec's vast intellectual
property portfolio, which includes patent prosecution, licensing,
marketing and litigation. Since joining the company in 1977, Mr. Winter
has held numerous senior management positions including, Senior Vice
President of Strategy and Business Development, Vice President and
General Manager of Intermec's Local Area Systems Division, Vice
President of Intermec\'s Government Systems Division and Vice President
of European Operations located in Duesseldorf, Germany. Winter holds a
Master\'s degree in Business Administration from the University of
Washington, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering
Technology from DeVry Institute of Technology.

**[Badri A. Younes]{.underline}** is the Department of Defense (DoD)
Director for Spectrum Management and the Director for the DoD Defense
Spectrum Office, with responsibility for spectrum policy and strategic
planning and implementation for the Department of Defense. Mr. Younes'
experience spans over twenty years of microwave and RF systems
engineering and technology. Prior to joining the Department of Defense,
Mr. Younes managed the RF systems engineering and spectrum management
for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Space and Ground Networks.
While at GSFC, he successfully managed the development and
implementation of the hardware systems for NASA's Second TDRSS Ground
Terminal. Mr. Younes' career includes five years of hands on work in
state-of-the-art technology at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Mr.
Younes is a member of Tau Beta Pi and holds a Masters in Electronics
Engineering from Catholic University of America. He completed all his
PhD requirements except for the dissertation. His primary focus included
coding and modulation theory, analog and digital communications, quantum
electronics, signal processing, non-linear mathematics and neural
networks.