MIT Technology Review Names NYU’s Jonathan Viventi to Innovators Under 35 List

A young researcher who is leading the development of revolutionary brain sensors will be named today to the MIT Technology Review annual Innovators Under 35, a list of exceptionally talented technologists whose work holds great potential to transform the world. Jonathan Viventi, 32, an assistant professor of computer engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering, …

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Nokia and NYU WIRELESS bring the first-ever 5G Summit to Brooklyn

If you had any doubts that Brooklyn was fast becoming one of the hottest locales in the tech industry, look no further than the 5G Summit, held from April 23 to 25 at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. Co-organized by the NYU WIRELESS research center and Nokia, the conference, planned to be an annual event from …

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Prof. Ted Rappaport Delivers Keynote Address at IEEE’S International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014

With more than 50,000 members, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Communications Society  is one of the largest and most active of all the organization’s subgroups, and since its founding in 1952, it has become the major international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications and information networking. Its International Conference on …

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Prof. Justin Cappos Makes Cracking Individual Passwords Impossible

NYU WIRELESS Professor Justin Cappos and his research group have devised a new scheme called PolyPassHash for storing password hash data so that an attacker cannot individually crack passwords. Instead of a password hash being stored directly in the database, the information is used to encode a share in a Shamir Secret Store, a form of secret sharing, where a …

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NYU WIRELESS Successfully Transmits LTE in Millimeter Wave Band

NYU WIRELESS Ph.D. students Russell Ford and George MacCartney have demonstrated the center’s first LTE-like transmissions at millimeter wave frequencies.  Millimeter wave (mmW) bands between 30 and 300 GHz are a new frontier for wireless communications that offer the possibilities of orders of magnitude more spectrum than current cellular and WiFi allocations.  These bands have been …

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Prof. Viventi Receives $400,000 Grant from Army Research Office

Jonathan Viventi, an NYU WIRELESS Professor has received a $400,000 grant from the Army Research Office.  Viventi is exploring uses for high-density neural recording to understand some of the brain’s most basic capabilities.  His project aims to demystify the human auditory system, specifically examining the signals associated with paying attention and absorbing information in the presence of …

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Prof. Dennis Shasha Named 2014 ACM Fellow

NYU WIRELESS Associate Director Dennis Shasha has been named a 2014 ACM Fellow for his technical and literary contributions to the field of data management.  ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society and delivers resources that advance computing as a science and profession. Prof. Shasha describes his research as “puzzles …

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Prof. Ted Rappaport named Top 100 Wireless Technology Expert

Today’s Wireless World has recognized NYU WIRELESS director Prof. Ted Rappaport as a Top 100 Wireless Technology Experts for 2014.  Prof. Rappaport was one of three professors who made the list, consisting of technology innovators and business leaders all across the wireless ecosystem, from wireless communications, phones, broadband cards, and virtually everything in between. The …

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NSN, NYU WIRELESS host first Brooklyn 5G Summit

Nokia Solutions and Networks and the NYU WIRELESS Research Center at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering are jointly organizing the first Brooklyn 5G Summit, held April 23-25 in Brooklyn, New York. The invitation-only event will bring together wireless and mobile industry research and development leaders in academia, business and government to explore …

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AT&T joins NYU WIRELESS To Develop Next-Generation Mobile Network

NEW YORK—NYU WIRELESS announced that AT&T joined the university research center as an affiliate sponsor—a three-year commitment to collaborating on the next generation of mobile network technology. Their research aims to ensure that the telecommunications industry can stay ahead of the demands of its users, who are consuming data at an ever-increasing pace and scale. …

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