<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Folks</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Stanford Professor and Marconi Prize Winner Arogyaswami Paulraj <a href="https://register.comsoc.org/content/brooklyn-5g-summit-2018">will discuss <i>Mesh Networking at 60 GHz</i> from the Brooklyn 5G conference at 1:15 Eastern on Thursday.</a> This is high level, state of the art work, not for everyone. But he told me today he'll be discussing some of the problems they are working on, which will probably be useful to people doing mesh in Wi-Fi etc. which many in ISOC are working on.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">IEEE Livestream at <a href="https://register.comsoc.org/content/brooklyn-5g-summit-2018">https://register.comsoc.org/content/brooklyn-5g-summit-2018</a>. Other interesting talks all day <a href="https://brooklyn5gsummit.com/agenda/">https://brooklyn5gsummit.com/agenda/</a> Boccardi, for example, is Britain's top spectrum guy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Do try to catch Paul live; last year, IEEE took a month to post the video.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Our Indian chapters may find Paul especially interesting. He worked for the Indian government until he was 45 and earned the Padma Bhushan. He now spends much of his time in India working at a very senior level developing telecom policy.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">============</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Paul is like most of the top engineers I know and cares about improving everyone's Internet. Paul's made the policy connections but most engineers haven't and would like to. For example, even many of the most senior engineers would be happy to speak to the local ISOC Chapter. Don't be shy about asking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Paul won the Marconi Prize for inventing MIMO in 1993, which is now in every LTE phone and most Wi-Fi. He led the WIMAX effort. Although LTE won the 4G race, much of LTE is based on his work on WIMAX. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Vint Cerf incidentally is the current leader of Marconi, which annually gives a $100,000 prize considered the Nobel of Communications. I'm sure he will confirm that most people like Paul or John Cioffi are delighted to share what they know. Marconi also gives 2 or 3 $5,000 young scholar awards every year to people 27 or younger.They also bring the winners to their event and it's a great way to connect with the best. Very competitive but I'm know they welcome scholars beyond the usual U.S./Europe circles.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Sorry to give such late notice. I didn't know until tonight that his talk was on Mesh. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">------------------</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Other interesting news is the U.S. NSF is providing $100M to two advanced wireless testbeds. Utah will do MIMO and New York will do mmWave and more. The NSF guy spoke today and made a point they welcome researchers from anywhere in the world. <a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827923">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827923</a> He said they even would welcome academics from China, not easy these days. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">If you're a researcher on things like controlling Wi-Fi from the cloud or anything in 5G in Lahore or Lagos, I'm sure you'd be welcome.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">On all of this, I can connect. Being a reporter is a great job for a geek. I get to ask questions to the most interesting people.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">Dave</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">P.S. One reason I'm sending this across ISOC is most groups like this, IEEE, 3GPP, NGMN, etcetera do a terrible job reaching out beyond the U.S., Europe, and now China-Japan-Korea. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">I don't think that's prejudice. One of the speakers was Dina Katabi, a Syrian woman whom I believe is of Palestinian origin. But she's now an MIT Professor, hence connected. Six or seven were raised in India, but now work in the West. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">I don't believe any of the 30 or so speakers were from Africa, Latin America, or the Middle East. I'm confident people would be welcome if they knew to ask. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"trebuchet ms",sans-serif">
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