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2006 Symposium
| Thursday, September 28 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. |
Registration |
Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Morning Session I |
Austin Hooper and William Heston,
Baylor University
Dr. Pedro M. Reyes, Assistant Professor of Operations
Management, Baylor University
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. |
Morning Session II |
- Dr. Edmund Prater, Assistant Professor of Operations
Management, Director of the UTA/THR Medical Mini MBA and the Associate
Director of the Health Education Research Center (HERC), The University
of Texas at Arlington
- "What Hope does RFID bring to Managing the Uncertainty Triangle
within International Supply Chains?”
- Joseph Pearson, Texas Instruments
- "Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with RFID"
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| 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
Donald Berg, Sun Microsystems |
| 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. |
Afternoon Session I |
- Dr. David C. Wyld, Mayfield Professor of Management
and Director of the Strategic e-Commerce Initiative, Southeastern Louisiana
University
- “Chasing Ghosts with Chips: RFID Tracking of Pharmaceuticals
to Beat the Threat of Counterfeit Drugs”
Mark Johnson, President, RFID Tribe
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| 2:15 - 2:30 p.m. |
Break |
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| 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. |
Afternoon Session II |
Jeremiah Marks, Baylor University
- Dr. Madhav Pappu, Assistant Professor, Industrial
Distribution, Texas A&M
- “An Inventory Management and Item-Rental System: Using Radio
Frequency Identification (RFiD) For Gaining Improved Efficiencies”
- Dr. Farhad Moeeni, Associate Professor of Operations
and Information Systems and Director of the Center for the Study of
Automatic Identification, Arkansas State University
- “RFID: Where is the ROI”
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| Friday, September 29 |
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. |
Registration |
Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. |
Morning Session I |
Kurt Wall, Chairman, President, & Co-Founder,
The National RFID Center
- Dr. Thomas Chen, Research Professor and Undergraduate
Academic Advisor of Industrial Engineering Department, University of
Houston
- “Web-based Realtime Intelligent RFID and Sensor Data Acquisition,
Monitoring and Exchange System”
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| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. |
Morning Session II |
- Dr. Liam O’Neill, Assistant Professor of Health
Systems, University of North Texas
- "RFID, Stochastic Dominance, DEA, and decision analysis"
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- Sherry Avery, Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas
at Arlington
- “RFID: Impact on Financial Performance”
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| 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch |
Dale Robertson, Texas Workforce Commission |
| 1:00 - 1:15 p.m. |
Closing Remarks |
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