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Dr. Eric Burger is Deputy Chief Technology Officer for BEA Systems. Dr. Burger contributes to and holds leadership positions in several standards bodies, including having written most of the SIP media RFC’s in the IETF and contributing to VoiceXML and CCXML in the W3C. In addition, he is the Chair of the lemonade (mobile e-mail), mediactrl (IP media control), and speechsc (speech services control) work groups in the IETF. He serves on the Board of Directors of the IMS Forum and the SIP Forum, and he is an advisor to the Voice-over-IP Forum of Japan. Dr. Burger co-founded SnowShore Networks, where he served as CTO and invented the SIP-controlled multi-function media server. He has held senior positions at companies such as Cable & Wireless, MCI, Texas Instruments, Cantata Technology, Brooktrout Technology, and ADC/Centigram. He holds over eleven issued patents and has numerous patents pending. He is a Senior Member of the ACM and IEEE, and is a Patron of the AAAS and Benefactor of the Internet Society. Dr. Burger has taught at George Mason University and George Washington University and holds degrees from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Catholic University of Leuven, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | 