[Chapter-delegates] World Class engineer livestream on Mesh Networking Thursday 1:15

[Dave Burstein]

Folks

Stanford Professor and Marconi Prize Winner Arogyaswami Paulraj will
discuss *Mesh Networking at 60 GHz* from the Brooklyn 5G conference at 1:15
Eastern on Thursday.
<https://register.comsoc.org/content/brooklyn-5g-summit-2018> 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.

IEEE Livestream at
https://register.comsoc.org/content/brooklyn-5g-summit-2018. Other
interesting talks all day https://brooklyn5gsummit.com/agenda/ Boccardi,
for example, is Britain's top spectrum guy.

Do try to catch Paul live; last year, IEEE took a month to post the video.

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.
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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.

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.

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.

Sorry to give such late notice. I didn't know until tonight that his talk
was on Mesh.
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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.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1827923 He said they even
would welcome academics from China, not easy these days.

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.

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.

Dave

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.

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.

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.

The Color Of The Net Has Changed
<http://netpolicynews.com/index.php/89-r/1015-the-color-of-the-net-has-changed>
 http://bit.ly/netcolor

About 65% of 1.5B Internet "connections" are in the Global South, led by
the BRICS. The actual number of users is probably twice that. Three
quarters are not native English speakers. China has three times as many as
the United States. India has more Facebook users than the United
States. Vietnam has the fastest growth ...


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