The promise of the truly pervasive Web has consumers and carriers alike anxiously looking forward to more personal, social and mobile media experiences. As fixed and mobile broadband networks mature and more intelligent devices enter the market, all arrows point toward highly evolved and individualized experiences that move alongside consumers in their everyday lives. However, it’s no longer a conversation about creating the next killer application, but about enabling the entire ecosystem to simplify the delivery of information to consumers to add value to their everyday lives.

Dr. Fred Kitson of Motorola’s corporate research labs (Applied Research & Technology Center) will discuss how his team of researchers are bringing together communication + content + community to make this ecosystem a reality, and develop the next-generation experiences people want anytime, anywhere and on-the-go. These experiences will be comprised of advanced applications that support future video and multimedia consumption, open new doors for user-generated content and enable real-time communications, giving users access to the content and applications they want, wherever they are, in unique and innovative ways. Connectivity, context-awareness and accessibility are key elements to this vision, and Motorola is innovating new and valuable services for mobile users, as well as new revenue-generating avenues for network providers.

Host: Lin Zhong

Biography of Fred Kitson:
Fred Kitson leads the Motorola Applied Research Center, a global team of researchers working to uncover the next big things in media mobility. Under his leadership, the Center identifies, researches and develops disruptive breakthroughs and technology foundations that spawn new businesses for Motorola and innovative approaches to solving customer and market problems. The Center leverages Motorola’s technical expertise in broadband communications to deliver multimedia without limits.

Kitson joined Motorola in 2005 as head of the Applications Research Center of Excellence, an international team of researchers focused on personal content handling and entertainment platforms. He has deep expertise in mobile systems, computer systems, consumer appliances and specific technologies such as multimedia digital signal processing, communications, and computer graphics.

The Applications Research vision and architecture led by Kitson had a major impact on the corporate agenda, messaging and technological roadmaps of Motorola. Some of the most significant contributions include the development of a highly resilient MPEG-4 encoder/decoder that delivers high-quality video on mobile phones, liquid media concept and demonstrators to facilitate “seamless media” for different devices and applications, and home media servers to enable enhanced communications with ease of use.

Kitson received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delaware, a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a doctorate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado. He is a prolific publisher of technical papers and holds five patents.
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