Gilder and N.J. telecommunications leaders to kick off "New Jersey Telecom Turnpike" forum at Stevens December 10th

George Gilder, author of Microcosm (1989) and Life After Television (1992), and a noted futurist, will join state telecommunications leaders at Stevens Institute of Technology on Dec. 10, at 4:00 p.m. to kick off the "New Jersey Telecom Turnpike" forum. This inaugural event will be held in the university’s DeBaun Auditorium, located on Fifth Street, between River and Hudson Streets, in Hoboken, N.J. The media is invited to this event.

The forum is designed to bring the metropolitan region's diverse telecommunications community together to discuss emerging technologies and other issues affecting the industry.

Organizers invite communications executives, researchers, developers, inventors, investors, marketers, programmers, academics, consultants and entrepreneurs in the two states to attend this first meeting. The New Jersey Telecom Turnpike is sponsored by isen.com, Inc., and the Advanced Telecommunications Institute (ATI) of Stevens.

To register for this event, please visit http://www.ati.stevens.edu/njtt, call 908-389-0177, or email robin@isen.com.

WHAT: Inaugural Meeting of the New Jersey Telecom Turnpike

WHO: New Jersey’s Leading Telecommunications Executives, Researchers and Professors

WHEN: Dec. 10, 1998, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: Stevens Institute of Technology, DeBaun Auditorium, Edwin A. Stevens Hall, Fifth Street (Between River and Hudson Streets) Hoboken, N.J. (Minutes north of the Hoboken PATH station and across the Hudson River Street from Manhattan).

About Stevens Institute of Technology

Founded in 1870 and celebrating 140 Years of Innovation, Stevens Institute of Technology, The Innovation University TM , lives at the intersection of industry, academics and research.  The University's students, faculty and partners leverage their collective real-world experience and culture of innovation, research and entrepreneurship to confront global challenges in engineering, science, systems and technology management.

Based in Hoboken, N.J. and with a location in Washington, D.C., Stevens offers baccalaureate, master’s, certificates and doctoral degrees in engineering, the sciences and management, in addition to baccalaureate degrees in business and liberal arts.  Stevens has been recognized by both the US Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security as a National Center of Excellence in the areas of systems engineering and port security research. The University has a total enrollment of more than 2,200 undergraduate and 3,700 graduate students with almost 450 faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America as well as strategic partnerships with industry leaders, governments and other universities around the world.  Additional information may be obtained at www.stevens.edu and www.stevens.edu/press.