Mr. Gee Rittenhouse Vice President, Head of Research - Bell Labs
Energy - Keynote Speech
The Quest to Achieve Sustainable Networking: Towards a 1000-Fold Improvement in Energy Efficiency
Green Touch
A Five Year Quest to Achieve Sustainable Networking
Green Touch is a global consortium organized by Bell Labs whose goal is to create the technologies needed to make communications networks 1000 times more energy efficient than they are today.
Green Touch brings together leaders in industry, academia and government labs to invent and deliver radical new approaches to energy efficiency that will be at the heart of sustainable networks in the decades to come.
To support its objectives the Green Touch Initiative will deliver -- within five years a reference network architecture and demonstrations of the key components required to realize this improvement. This initiative also offers the potential to generate new technologies and new areas of industry.
About Mr. Gee Rittenhouse
Gee Rittenhouse is Vice President of Bell Labs Research, overseeing all Alcatel-Lucent research in physics, computer science, mathematics, optics, access, networking, and applications. He is also Chairman of the Board of Green Touch, a non-profit pre-competitive research consortium focused on dramatic reductions in network energy requirements. Prior to leading research he was Vice President of Bell Labs' Technology Integration Group, with the primary mission of taking Bell Labs research innovations and driving them into Alcatel-Lucent's products and services. Before that Gee was Vice President, Bell Labs Wireless Research.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined Bell Laboratories as a member of technical staff in 1993. In 2002 he received the Bell Labs Fellow Award. He has numerous publications and patents in the areas of communications and circuits.