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of days is we have
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from all over the world.

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Thank you very much for
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and weather that has beset
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Actually, Jun Mirai
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caught in a snowstorm at
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and so won't be able to
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And I'm sure that there will
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We wanted to keep this
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make some headway
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of the objectives
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by the conference committee.

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We talked about wanting
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for collaborative
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what the core research
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of these opportunities might be,
and use these sessions that we

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have today to begin a technology
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hope to follow on with
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of here, which we'll share
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But so first, I'd
like to welcome you

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on behalf of MIT
and the AUTO-ID Labs

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here at MIT, who's the
host for this event.

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My name is Steve Miles.

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I'm a research engineer
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And I'm the conference committee
chair for this gathering.

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I'd like to just give
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happening over the
next couple of days

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so you can visualize the
agenda and then also thank

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some of the people
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today, without whom this
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So I guess, first to start
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there's a conference committee
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ad hoc, people who knew
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researchers in this area.

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there are half a
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who are here who I'd like
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ask you to stand as I say
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see who you are, because, again,
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So Dr. Bill Hargrave from the
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are you here?

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And Dr. Gisele Bennett
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stay standing, because
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to applaud when--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--Jean Pierre
[INAUDIBLE],, right?

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Jean Pierre?

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STEPHEN MILES: OK.

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Dr. Rob Clarke from MSU,
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from EPFL in Switzerland, and,
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who was the person
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for the idea of this
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so this group of people has been
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And then there's a
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who had an equal share in
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and who you will
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again, we'd like to recognize
them as a group, so Dr. Elgar

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Fleisch from the University of
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from Cambridge University,
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is Alan here?

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STEPHEN MILES: Dr.
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who is in a snowstorm but is
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Dr. Hao Min of Fudan
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Sang Gug Lee of the Information
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in Korea, the latest addition
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together with John Williams
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looking at ways to
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some of the opportunities that
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at MIT, who have been
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out front, and has organized
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of RFID technology
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tonight for the reception.

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together with [INAUDIBLE],,
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and he's been the
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So just briefly the
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John Williams will introduce
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this morning, the horizontal
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so a session on the
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related to RFID, a session
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as we look out in
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right into industry
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around research areas
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so starting with
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that is led by Dr.
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for those of you who may not be
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Boeing and Airbus have decided
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chain more the model of the
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they'll be able to
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to go on those subassemblies
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involve university research and
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throughout the world and
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from the academic
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far more coordinated than
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of Johnson & Johnson, who's
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health care life sciences
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on health care to
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to the MIT Museum for
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which are there showing
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for RFID, I believe,
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is an espresso machine, which
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by your cup, as I understand it.

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in supply chain
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reconvene for
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beyond the supply chain
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is to give academics
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no more than 10 minutes
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what's key in our
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as to the applicability,
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So are there any questions
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STEPHEN MILES: For
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to walk to the other side of
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to Professor John
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the director of the
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JOHN WILLIAMS: Thanks very much.

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I want to welcome you all here
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I often wondered why MIT
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until I moved here.

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There's nothing to
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I'd like to thank Steve Miles,
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how important this is that.

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In the AUTO-ID Labs, this
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we got together as a consortium
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the internet of things.

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it's really an
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these are infrastructures
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that we need to think seriously
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It's going to be knowing what
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when it's there,
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is for us to identify the
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so that this infrastructure
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that we think about that, that
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It's cross-countries,
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It's going to be incredibly
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one of the founders of RFID,
Professor Sanjay Sharma here,

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who's going to tell us
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So I'd like to welcome him
and welcome you all to MIT.