The 9th WPMC2005 was held in September 18-21 in Aalborg, Denmark.
Original official WEB site of WPMC2005 has already been closed.
The following is cited from YRP News (Early Summer 2006, No.35)
WPMC’ 05 took place as a follow-up event of the International Wireless Summit’ 05 (IWS’ 05), in parallel with the Strategic Workshop’ 05 (SW’ 05), which discussed the strategy for the future wireless information and multimedia communications, and the Wireless Science Parks’ 05 (WSP’ 05), which brought together representatives of European and Asian science parks to pro
mote collaborations among them.
The opening ceremony was held in Aalborg Congress and Culture Center. Prof. Ramjee Prasad, Aalborg University, gave the opening remarks as the general chair of IWS’ 05 and WPMC’ 05.
Mr. Henning G. Jensen, Mayor of Aalborg, delivered a welcome speech. On behalf of WPMC sponsors, Dr. Makoto Nagao, President of NICT, and Dr. Mitsutoshi Hatori, Chairman of YRP R&D Promotion Committee, extended greetings.
IWS’05 drew about 650 participants from around the world. 488 papers were submitted for WPMC’05, among which 399 papers were accepted.
WSP’ 05 brought together representatives of NOVI Science Park from Denmark, Technopolis from Finland, Thailand Science Park, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) from Malaysia, which have concluded MOUs for technical cooperation with YRP, and Hong Kong Science Park from China. They had an active ex change of views about possible collaboration among them.