N. Balakrishnan
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Prof. Balki is the Associate director of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Founder/Chairman of the
Supercomputer Education & Research Centre at IISc till November 2001. He is a leader in the fields of Computing
and IT in India, having established one of India's first (and still leading) supercomputers. He is also one of the
leaders in the Million Book Project, which to date has crossed its goal. Also known as the Universal Digital Library,
it is unique in its focus on developing nations, especially India and China, creating new technologies to transcribe
and add meta-data to dozens of local languages.He has received many prestigious awards for his work from national
and international bodies. In 2002, the President of India honored him with the Padmashree award. He is a Fellow of
the Third World Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National
Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad, and Institution of Electronic and
Telecommunications Engineers. Prof. Balki received his B.E.(Hons) in Electronics and Communication from the
Coimbatore Institute of Technology, University of Madras, and his PhD from the IISc.

Y. Narahari
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Y. Narahari is currently a Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore. His current research focuses on the use of Game Theory and Mechanism Design applied to
network economics and electronic commerce problems.

Professor Narahari has just completed a Springer monograph on game theory and mechanism design. He has
spent sabbaticals at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, in 1992 and at
the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, in 1997. Professor Narahari is a
recipient of the IEEE Fellowship, the fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences, the fellowship of the Indian
National Academy of Engineering, and the Homi Bhabha Fellowship. He has consulted for several companies
including Intel, General Motors Research, and Infosys Technologies.

Session Title: Enabling Breakthrough Applications in Mobile Internet Commerce
This talk will present two contemporary Internet commerce applications which offer interesting research challenges in the mobile space. The first is sponsored search (keyword) auctions on the mobile web
which can revolutinize mobile Internet advertising. The second application is query incentive social networks using the mobile web platform.

Keywords: Mobile Commerce, Mobile Internet Advertising, Sponsored Search Auctions on Mobile Web, Query Incentive Networks, Social Networks, Game Theory, Mechanism Design, Nash Equilibrium.

S.K. Nandy
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Chairman and Founding Director of MORPHING MACHINES
S. K. Nandy obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Science in 1989. He is presently a Professor at the Supercomputer Education and Research Centre of IISc. His research interests include multi-processor architectures, VLSI Systems, System-on-Chip Solutions, and Runtime Reconfigurable ASICs. He has over 100 publications in International Journals and proceedings of International Conferences.

Prof. Nandy is also the Chairman and Founding Director of MORPHING MACHINES - a new technology incubation startup with IISc as a partner. At MORPHING MACHINES Prof. Nandy along with his team has been responsible for architecting REDEFINE, which is a Runtime Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Multi-core on a chip.

Session Title : Flexible SoC Platforms for Mobile Applications
Mobile Platforms are increasing being used as feature rich infotainment devices. Most of these applications are streaming in nature with soft real-time deadlines. The mobile devices in turn must deliver high performance at a low power budget in order to extend the battery life. It is also desirable that these devices support interoperability between different standards, applications and application derivatives. We will present REDEFINE, a SoC platform that can at runtime reconfigurable itself to provide hardware adaptations befitting the application needs.

Joe Kuri
Professor, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Joy Kuri had joined the M.E. program in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering
at the Indian Institute of Science. He went on to receive a PhD from the same department at IISc in 1995.
Subsequently, he spent two years at Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Canada and one and a half years
in INRS-Telecommunications, University of Quebec, Canada as a Research Associate. He has been with the Centre for Electronics Design and Technology, Indian Institute of Science, as Associate Professor. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of modelling, analysis and control of communication networks and stochastic systems.

Session Title: Adapting TCP to wireless links
TCP performs poorly in wireless mobile networks due to large bit error rates, because the TCP sender responds to these losses as if they were due to network congestion. It has been shown that adding a TCP *header checksum* is helpful in differentiating between congestion and corruption losses. We study this modified TCP protocol analytically, and obtain expressions for TCP throughput. The analytical results match simulations very well. The modified TCP shows considerable improvement in data throughput over wireless links.

Dr. Ajay Bakre
Software Architect in Innovative Products Group, Intel
Dr. Ajay Bakre is currently working as Software Architect in the Innovative Products Group at Intel India in Bangalore. He completed his Ph.D. from Rutgers University, New Jersey in 1996. He has 13 years of research and industry experience in the areas of IP/ATM Networking, Broadband Wireless Access, Storage Networking and Embedded Systems. Before joining Intel in 2003, he worked at NEC Research Labs, Iospan Wireless and Pillar Data Systems. He has several publications in the areas of Mobile Computing and Wireless Networking. He also holds 1 US patent. He is a member of IEEE. His current interests include Wireless Access Technologies such as WiFi and WiMax, Mobile IP, Location Based Services, Cloud Computing and Speech Technologies for Indian Languages.

Prasad Modali
Principal Enginer, Intel
Prasad Modali has been with Intel since 1992. He worked in the mobile wireless communications group for the last 4 years as the VLSI architecture manager and became a Principal Engineer this year. He led platform and silicon architecture development for the first three generations of WiMAX residential gateway products. Most recently, he led analysis of integrating wireless platforms into UMG LPIA silicon, software defined modem architectures and application accelerators on wireless baseband silicon. Prior to this, Prasad worked as architecture and design manager for a startup that built silicon products that optimize network utilization for a IEEE based standard called Resilient Packet Ring networks. Previously, Prasad worked in the roles of lead architect, cluster design manager, and circuit design engineer on several successful Intel products including network processors, Itanium, Pentium® III, Xeon® and Pentium® Pro. Prasad has a Master's in EE from Southern Illinois University and BE Electronics from VNIT, Nagpur.

Session Title: Moblin and Mobile Internet Devices
Overview of Moblin efforts and support of Mobile Internet Device platforms. This session will attempt to address the strategic context of Moblin, articulate what are we building, overview of the Moblin software platform and stack overview, APIs, compliance, Atom processor support, overall roadmap, Moblin SKUs, products, distribution and business and support models.

Kaiwan N Billimoria
Designer Graphix, Founder
Kaiwan has over 14 years of experience as a freelance IT consultant. Predominantly a Unix guy, he came across Linux back in 1997 and it was love at first sight. Over the years he has built a high level of expertise (within the system programming and X/MOTIF domains) on Linux. He strongly believes in the "get your hands dirty" / "show me the code" philosophy. He is an active contributor to a few open-source projects. He has contributed two device drivers into the
mainline Linux kernel, and collaborated on the OpenMoko GLS (GPS Location Based Services) project, among others.

Kaiwan now divides his time between taking up high-end corporate training assignments, consulting assignments and open-source software development contribution.