Consumer Electronics Show CEO To Lecture At Wayne State In April

DETROIT ? Gary Shapiro, president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, and one of the foremost experts on the smart appliances that transform everyday life, will be the featured speaker April 7 at the Wayne State University Law School’s Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium. His lecture, Our Digital Destiny, is free and open to the public.

Shapiro represents more than 2,300 consumer electronics companies. CEA owns and produces the continent?s largest annual trade event, the international Consumer Electronics Show. This trade show is held in Las Vegas and is housed in an area the size of 35 football fields.

Shapiro led the industry in its successful transition to HDTV. He co-founded and chaired the HDTV Model Station and was a leader of the Advanced Television Test Center. He is a charter inductee to the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers, and received its highest award as the industry leader most influential in advancing HDTV. He also was instrumental in urging Congress to establish an analog cut-off date.

Last fall, Shapiro outlined his five major predictions for the future in technological innovations. Included on his list was more development in sensory devices, opto-electronics, nanotechnology and biology that will allow new devices and uses of the Internet.

Wayne State University has been developing a multidisciplinary campuswide initiative in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In 2005, Wayne State was the only Michigan university invited to host events in the U.S. pavilion at the 2005 World Expo in Aichi, Japan. This distinction provided an opportunity to demonstrate the global relevance of WSU?s research with an international symposium on nanotechnology. Pioneering work in micro-devices is also taking place in the Smart Sensors and Integrated Microsystems Laboratory at WSU?s College of Engineering.

Sponsored by Wayne State University?s Department of Communication and WDET 101.9 FM Detroit Public Radio, Our Digital Destiny is free, but seating is limited and RSVP?s are required. Register at SpecialEvents.Wayne.Edu/Shapiro

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