Activities of the Innovation Center

Displays a list of seminars, lectures, conference, visits and activities of faculty, fellows, and visiting lecturers both in and outside the university

17 Nov 2008 - 15:41 - Leading PC game designer will be presenting during the BPO Summit on December 2 and 3

Chris Natsuume, co-founder and creative director for Boomzap Entertainment (a leading developer of casual games), will be presenting in the game development track of the BPO Summit for both December 2 and 3.

Chris is best known for being the lead producer for Far Cry, one of the most successful FPS (First Person Shooter) games for the Windows PC. Far Cry has sold more than a million copies worldwide and has been translated into versions for various platforms (Nintendo Wii, XBox, Playstation, and arcade) as well as a movie.

Chris will be talking about his experiences in establishing Boomzap, and hopefully share lessons to others planning to set up their own game development company.

For more information, please visit http://www.bposummitphilippines.com and find out how you can participate in the BPO Summit and listen to Chris' presentations.

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11 Nov 2008 - 17:14 - First International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm'09)

Welcome to GreenComm'09!

The steadily rising energy cost and the need to reduce global CO₂ emission to protect our environment are today's economical and ecological drivers for the emerging consideration of energy consumption in all fields of communications. Triggered by network operators experiencing energy cost as a significant new factor of their calculation, researchers have started to investigate approaches for reducing power consumption and manufacturers have started offering energy-efficient network components. Also standards bodies, such as the IEEE, are already developing standards for energy-efficient protocols. However, research and development in these areas is still at an early stage and the space of potential solutions is far from being explored.

The First International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm'09), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2009), will bring together academic and industrial researchers for discussing energy-efficient communications. It will close the gap between the already established conferences and workshops covering energy efficiency for IT on one side and for wireless sensor networks on the other side.

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Activities archive

• 17 Nov 2008 - 15:41 - Leading PC game designer will be presenting during the BPO Summit on December 2 and 3 >>>
• 11 Nov 2008 - 17:14 - First International Workshop on Green Communications (GreenComm?'09) >>>
• 29 Sep 2008 - 15:51 - Tuna Congress 2008 08 Sept 02 >>>
• 22 Sep 2008 - 16:07 - Save the Date: Innovation Forum - Davao City, September 29, 2008 >>>
• 17 Sep 2008 - 04:15 - From Prof. Nilo T. Bugtai to Ms. Cat Ramos >>>
• 26 Aug 2008 - 20:31 - West Stewart of Philippine Biosciences >>>
• 03 Jun 2008 - 07:42 - Kape at Teknolohiya presentation >>>
• 23 May 2008 - 13:21 - Asia Clean Energy Forum 2008 >>>
• 08 Mar 2008 - 09:14 - Innovation Forum: Where VCs are placing their bets in 2008 >>>
• 27 Feb 2008 - 07:46 - Invitation to Interlinks 4.0 >>>

November 7, 2008

There will be a book event at Fully Booked Serendra, at 5pm of that day.
Rebecca Fannin, author of SILICON DREAMS: How China is Winning the Tech Race (McGraw?-Hill, 2007) will be in town to plug her book.
Rebecca is the international editor of the Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ) and a columnist for the (Arianna) Huffington Post.

September 17, 2008

Asean Education Manager, Mike Alejandrino and Service Country Manager, Ramil Cabodil, will visit to discuss a partnership between Ateneo ECCE and IBM. IBM Philippines proposes to train ECCE top graduating / graduates with the intention of hiring in the future. Invitees to the meeting are Dr. Nat Libatique and Dr. Greg Tangonan.

September 17, 2008

Edi Sian, Bam Aquino, Mark Ruiz of Hapinoy and MicroVentures? will visit the Ateneo Innovation Center to discuss the roll-out of personal medical databases. The Ateneo team includes Noh Guico, Dr. Nathaniel Libatique, Ronel Sicat, Cat Ramos, and Dr. Gregory Tangonan

September 9, 2008

Mr. Hirosha Sekiguchi, JICA Advisor to the DOTC, Philippines and Mr. James Santiago, Chairman of the Society of Broadcast Engineering, visited Ateneo to discuss the latest technology in terrestrial digital broadcasting systems. Of interest here is to performance test measurements of a local digital broadcast architecture that can be tested in the Ateneo using a Japanese offering by ARIB. The Ateneo Innovation Center researchers attending the meeting were Engr. Cesar Pineda, Engr. Noh Guico, Dr. Nathaniel Libatique, and Dr. Greg Tangonan. It was determined that the Ateneo can perform independent tests of the ISDB-T system and to experiment with new service delivery architectures for education networks, disaster preparedness, and local government communications. The Ateneo researchers received copies of the Technical report describing the terrestrial broadcast performance and witnessed mobile reception of digital TV broadcast coming from the Gemnet.

Mr. John Ritchie from SiTest? Solutions visited the AIC, hosted by Dr. Celso Co and Mr. Carlos Oppus.

September 5, 2008

Nat Libatique, Greg Tangonan and Paul Cabacungan visited SUNPOWER Philippines Manufacturing, Inc. in Laguna Technopark to discuss the Ateneo Smart Solar Systems projects that have been using SUNPOWER 200 watt arrays. The Ateneo presented their work to Mr. Chuck Stone, Manufacturing Manager, who had originally sponsored the free arrays for the research projects. The presentation covered clean water systems, growth of algae under artificial photosynsthesis, electrolysis for hydrogen production and the cleanup of waste water, and wireless sensor monitoring for solar systems. The Ateneo work on cleaning rainwater may prove to be a good program for a joint SUNPOWER - Ateneo deployment. The is discussing the possibility of building a 2kW solar PV system for the Ateneo that will be used for Smart Solar Systems Research.