Keeping the Aloha spirit in mind to promote better understanding and cooperation between East and West, IEEE's Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) has shifted the venue to outside the North American continent. For the first time, this year's 50th International Microwave Symposium is being held in Honolulu, Hawaii, the 50th state of the USA. Hawaii has long been regarded as the crossroads of the Pacific, making it a perfect venue for taking the specialized field of microwaves across the pacific.

This microwave symposium is devoted to research, development and application of RF and microwave theory and techniques. It is expected to draw more than 10,000 participants. Some 400 companies will be exhibiting their wares. It is spread over six days, and will offer workshops, tutorials, panels, special/focused and technical sessions to RF/microwave engineers from around the world.

In fact, Microwave Week will host three symposia. In addition to IMS2007, the Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) Symposium (www.rfic2007.org) and the Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG) conference will be held during Microwave Week 2007. While the technical sessions will run Tuesday through Thursday of Microwave Week, workshops will be held Sunday through Tuesday, and the ARFTG (www.arftg.org) microwave measurements conference will be held on Friday, June 8.

The technical program was reviewed by the Technical Program Committee, comprising 232 reviewers. Out of a near-record number of 1069 submitted papers, 381 were selected for oral presentation, and 142 for the Interactive Forum (IF). To give IF presenters more flexibility, the committee has rearranged the IF into four two-hour sessions. Plus, there are five focused and four special sessions organized by Kevin Kobayashi and his team. One special session pays tribute to Leo Young, organized by Robert Trew and another one is dedicated to the memory of K.C. Gupta, organized by Inder Bahl and Madhu Gupta. Panel sessions, organized by John Cowles and his team, will occur during lunchtime.

The technical program kicks off on Tuesday with two plenary talks in Ballroom B, C from 10:10-11:50. “The Future of Mobile Broadband” is presented by Anil Kripalani, senior vice president for Global Technology Affairs, Qualcomm, in San Diego, Calif. While Ryuji Kohno, professor and director, Center of Medical Information and Communication Technology, Yokohama National University, Japan will talk on “The Next Direction of Advanced Wireless Communication Technology — Medical ICT.”

A critical question in the communications industry is, “What's Coming Next in Mobile Communications?” Kripalani's keynote presentation will cover emerging technologies critical to the success and proliferation of mobile-based services such as CDMA2000/EV-DO, WCDMA/HSPA, OFDMA/UMB, and LTE. For comparison, a perspective will be presented on WiMAX and the realities of how WiMAX is expected to perform compared to other WWAN technologies.

After setting the foundation with enabling technologies, the presentation elaborates on the future capabilities of mobile devices, the convergence of mobile devices and consumer electronics, and the benefits and innovative services/applications new devices will offer device manufacturers, operators, content providers, application developers and end users.

Kohno's keynote speech will introduce Medical ICT projects and activities in order to encourage global collaboration as well as plant many R&D and business seeds in academia and industry. According to the keynoter, Medical ICT is engaged as one of the most significant innovations in a new Japanese governmental primary plan for promoting science and technology. Also, the next info-communication technology (ICT), a ubiquitous medical healthcare system using advanced ICT technologies such as UWB, SDR and MIMO, holds promise for academia and industry. This advanced Medical ICT can be used to address the problems of an aging population, stated Kohno.

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