Review Meetings and Workshop

Michael Kao 2006/11/16

1.    Midterm External Review Meeting

The December midterm external review meeting will be divided into four project groups: III, ITRI, TWISC, and NDU. Each group will be assigned a presentation and Q&A time according to it size as shown in the following table.

The report should include both technical and logistics progress. The group with multiple projects should present with a summary, and the details and complements from its projects if necessary. No demo is required in the midterm reports.

2.    Internal Review Meeting

An internal review meeting will be held on 2006/11/25, couple weeks prior to the external review meeting, to serve as a self assessment and rehearsal opportunities for all PIs and Project Office. This will be in the same format as the external review meeting but with no external review board. Therefore, no individual Q&A and reviewing time will be allocated; instead, a discussion session is allocated at the end. The discussion will include review our expected outcome and 2^nd proposal to NSC. We also invite Shieh, S.P and Lai, C.S. give us a 5-minute briefs of TWISC @NCTU and @NCKU respectively, who are the iCAST potential members in coming years.

Note: Please submit your technical part presentation file to me by 2006/11/20. You may upload it into your project homepage and send me a notice.

3. Workshop / Strategic Meeting

In addition to the internal review meeting in the morning, we will have a workshop in the afternoon 2006/11/25, Saturday. This iCAST workshop is designed to provide us an opportunity to dialogue with iCAST industry partners and to discuss our past, present and future (strategic planning). In general, we want to review our past, present, and future; to identify what the industries need most; to discuss the ways to get more involvement and more coordination; to improve our overall outcome. In addition to all iCAST members including students, we will invite the industry representatives.

This workshop will cover four major topics: Core Technologies, SOC, Testbed, and Applications. The applications will include “application in medical/health care environments”, “wireless applications”, etc. Each session will have 3 to 4 presentations (8 minute each) first, then a general discussion.

In several topics, including SOC and Testbed, we have to cover the followings:

             i.                Define the topic - Build one cross academic and industries; e.g. co-develop a SOC or a minimum common set (kernel) which all can share, build a multi-site DETER-like testbed, etc.

           ii.                Determine its necessity and potential usability,

          iii.                Resource issues: budget, hardware, software, links, maintenance, and others,

         iv.                Management issues and others

The session chairpersons are listed below:

§             From Core Technology to Applications – Wu, T.C. & Yu, S.S.

§             SOC – Lee, H.M.

§             Testbed – Lai, C.S.

Currently, in addition to several members from TWISC @NCTU & @NCKU, we will have guests from Acer (宏碁), Information Security Service Digital United (數聯資安), Trade-Van Information Services Co. (關貿) and Taipei Medical University (台北醫學大學).