Colloquium: ComSoc History and Evolution of Communication Saturday, Dec 9th, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM US-CST An Online Complimentary Event of Galveston Bay Section and R5 History Committee Registration ( on Vtools ) required to attend AGENDA: 9:00 AM: Welcome: Dr. Zafar Taqvi-IEEE Region 5 History Chair Welcome: Bob Becnel-IEEE Region 5 Director IEEE ComSoc History Committee Briefing: Dr Kit August, V/C ComSoc History Committee Presentations: 1- History of ComSoc: Gunther Karger, Past Chair IEEE Canaveral Section(sole living founder of IEEE ComSoc), Author, speaker, Cyber Columnist and Aerospace Engineer 2- Information Theory, Coding and its Contribution to IT: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai, IEEE Fellow -Prof & Dean Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K 3- Evolution of Turning Wireless Communication to Sensing: Dr. Yingying (Jennifer) Chen, IEEE Fellow- Department Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar at Rutgers University 4- Women Pioneers in Telecommunications: Jill Tietjen, PE, Fellow SWE, and Margaret J. Lyons, P.E., Fellow SWE, Technically Speaking, Inc., Colorado 5- Digitization of Audio and Video: Dr. Victor B. Lawrence, IEEE Fellow, Inventor/Researcher, Bell Labs / Stevens Institute of Technology 6- History of the COMSOC Flagship Conferences: Tim Weil, SO 27001 CSMA Auditor, Trainer SecurityFeeds LL, Colorado 2:00 PM: Thanks from NAR Team: Fawzi Behmann, Director ComSoc/North American Region Speaker(s): GUNTHER, MATHINI, JENNIFER, , Victor, Tim, KIT, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387238