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To: Dan Joseph who wrote (3574)	5/8/1998 6:58:00 PM
From: pat mudge	Respond to of 6180

Wonder where this puts the ANSI/ETSI standards? *Telecoms Industry Says Hello To Universal ADSL Monday Newsbytes - May 08, 1998 12:30 LONDON, ENGLAND, 1998 MAY 8 (NB) -- By Steve Gold, Newsbytes. Monday next week will go down in history as something of a milestone in the development of ADSL (asynchronous digital subscriber line) technology, as British Telecom will announce it has teamed up with Deutsche Telecom, France Telecom, Singapore Tel and Nippon Telephone & Telegraph to create a new industry consortium known as Universal ADSL. Known as the Universal ADSL Working Group (UAWG), the consortium will be led by the triumvirate of Compaq, Intel and Microsoft. Their goal, they will announce on Monday, will be to deliver high speed modem communications over existing phone lines based on an open, interoperable International Telecommunications Union (ITU) standard. None of the vendors was available before Monday's launch to discuss the consortium, or the Universal ADSL standard. Reported by Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com . (19980508/WIRES TELECOM/)

To: Dan Joseph who wrote (3574)	5/12/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: SteveG	Respond to of 6180

<A> TI's Engibous Makes Keynote Speech at Conference Predicts Future of Digital Signal Processing DALLAS -- Reflecting on the last 50 years of signal processing and looking ahead to future possibilities, Thomas J. Engibous, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN), presented the keynote address at the International Conference on Acoustic Speech and Signal Processing, sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. His remarks were made today in Seattle in celebration of the society's 50th anniversary. "We've made quite a few leaps in signal processing during the past 50 years," Engibous said. "But we stand at a time in our history where our future accomplishments can dwarf all that has come before us." Speaking on behalf of the industry, Engibous cited the emergence of digital signal processing as the key to creating the next generation of applications. He predicted that within a few years, inventors can help people hear with cochlear implants, create artificial limbs that can synthesize touch and feel and manufacture cars that can sense a crash before impact and take actions to protect the passenger, all due to the proliferation of digital signal processing. Digital signal processors, or DSPs, are exceptionally fast semiconductor devices that handle signals in real time. According to Engibous, the science of signal processing has had a profound impact on people's lives with developments in voice messaging technology, cellular telephones and modems. In fact, he estimated, the average user encounters digital signal processing solutions about 20 times before lunch, with predictions of 200 times in the near future. Where today's digital signal processors function in a billion operations per second, products could reach trillions or quadrillions of instructions per second in the next 50 years -- assuming we don't run into quantum mechanics roadblocks, he stated. "The challenge to you is to put this explosion to innovative use to improve and enhance our world," Engibous told the audience of engineers, educators, designers and students. As a means to the get to the future, Texas Instruments continues to make substantial investments to promote the development of new DSP applications including a $100 million venture fund to seed new companies, Internet- delivered tools for developers, a series of training opportunities available over the web and a $25 million investment to encourage top-level DSP research at universities worldwide. The company also sponsored its DSP Solutions Challenge to award the most innovative new use for digital signal processing. This year's contest attracted more than 300 entries from around the globe. The finalists, representing Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, Virginia Tech and the University of Perugia in Italy, are competing for $100,000 in prize money. The winner will be named at a ceremony tonight at ICASSP. Their creative solutions, along with thousands of others, are very possible with imagination and the unlimited boundaries of digital signal processing solutions, according to Engibous. "The bright minds that have advanced the science of signal processing have already changed the lives in ways that the organization's founders probably couldn't have imagined," Engibous said. "But as far as we've come, I'm convinced that the most exciting times, and the most significant accomplishments, still lie ahead for the members of our profession." Texas Instruments Incorporated is a global semiconductor company and the world's leading designer and supplier of digital signal processing solutions, the engines driving the digitization of electronics. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the company's businesses also include materials and controls, educational and productivity solutions and digital imaging. The company has manufacturing or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at ti.com