AT&T Technology Lab

Dr. Deniz Gurkan, Assistant Professor, and Sergio Chacón, UH AT&T Lab Manager, have been invited to attend the University Collaboration Symposium 2008 at the prestigious AT&T Labs in Morristown, New Jersey, previously known as Bell Labs.

Faculty, staff and graduate students from the University of Houston College of Technology and the Computer Science Department visited the prestigious AT&T Labs in Austin, Texas.

The University of Houston has joined several universities and research institutes in the United States to work in Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) project research.

The UH AT&T Lab had the honor to welcome the new UH President and Chancellor Dr. Renu Khator this month. During her visit she videoconferenced with Associate Professor Dr. George Zouridakis who introduced her to some of his ongoing research in the areas of 3D imaging and Biotechnology.

Since 1876, AT&T ingenuity has connected individuals the world over and helped companies find better ways to do business. From Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone to the first transatlantic phone call, from the development of transistors and communications satellites to today’s powerful networks that support global enterprises, AT&T’s inventiveness has forever changed the way people and enterprises communicate.

The UH AT&T Lab hosted the first Internet2 Dynamic Circuit Network (DCN) workshop in the University of Houston today.

The AT&T Southwest President Mr. Chuck Rudnik and Mr. Ed Cholerton, vice president and general manager of AT&T’s Houston and Southeast Texas, visited The UH AT&T Lab.

The UH AT&T Lab in collaboration with the University of Houston Information Technology (UH-IT) and the Texas Learning and Computational Center (TLCC) has extended its fiber optic network as part of a plan to expand the lab’s research and training capabilites and include it in local and international fiber optic networks such as the Research and Education Network of Houston (RENoH), the National Lambda Rail (NLR) and Internet2.

The Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration (DoC EDA) has awarded a grant to the College of Technology Engineering Technology Department for its proposal “Center for Technology Literacy: An Upward Mobility Strategy for Economic Growth” that focuses on communities technology’s literacy.

The International Society of Automation (ISA) and the University of Houston College of Technology has just signed an agreement to begin offering ISA certification courses in the University of Houston AT&T Lab beginning this summer.