In addition to regular technical sessions, the symposium will include a special invited session on the highly active topic of "Interactive Multi-User Detection," co-organized by Professor S. Verdu, of Princeton University. Along with opening remarks given by Robert Lucky, of Telcordia Technologies and a presentation by Jesse E. Russell, of incNETWORKS, Inc., three well-known industry contributors from Germany, Japan and the United States will give keynote addresses on third-generation wireless activities in Europe, wideband technologies and the wireless revolution.

"Wireless technologies are both revolutionizing the way we communicate and changing the way we lead our personal lives," said Laurence C. Seifert, general chairman of the symposium and executive vice president and chief operation officer at AT&T Wireless Services. "New capabilities and applications are emerging in increasing numbers. Available radio spectrum is scarce and, therefore, expensive to acquire. Our engineers strive for cost-effective ways to use higher and higher frequencies, while others strive for new ways to get more out of the spectrum already in use. The latter is called by some the bits per hertz race."

"Spread spectrum technique has been known for many years in military applications, but recently became an important method of communication in civil applications," said Yeheskel Bar-Ness, chairman of the technical program committee and director of the Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research at NJIT. "ISSSTA 2000 sessions include contributed papers and invited talks by top investigators in spread spectrum theory and applications."

This year is the first year that the symposium is being held in the United States. The Center for Communications and Signal Processing Research at NJIT organized the event, which is sponsored by leading wireless companies, such as Airspan Communications Corporation, AT&T, Ericsson, Inc., Lucent Technologies, Motorola, Nokia Group, Siemens AG, Sirius Communications, Southern Poro Communications, Denso Corporation and Qualcomm.

More information about ISSSTA 2000 is available on the Web at www.ISSSTA2000.org.

NJIT is a public research university enrolling over 8,200 bachelor's, master's and doctoral students in 80 degree programs through its five colleges: Newark College of Engineering, New Jersey School of Architecture, College of Science and Liberal Arts, the School of Management and the Albert Dorman Honors College. Research initiatives include manufacturing, microelectronics, multimedia, wireless communications, transportation, computer science, solar astrophysics, environmental engineering and science, and architecture and building science.

Yahoo! Internet Life magazine has ranked NJIT "America's Most Wired Public University" for three consecutive years, U.S. News and World Report's 1999 Annual Guide to America's Best Colleges ranked NJIT among the nation's top universities, and Money magazine's most recent issue of Best College Buys rated NJIT as the sixth best value among U.S. science and technology schools and among the top 100 overall. In September 1999, Mademoiselle ranked NJIT as the second most Internet-connected university in the nation.

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