Source: http://mobihealthnews.com/ New York University is the latest institution to open a wireless health research center, though NYU is calling its effort the “first academic research center combining the exploration of advanced wireless technologies, computing and medical applications.” NYU last week unveiled NYU WIRELESS, bringing together engineering, computer science and medical faculty and students from the main …
Source: THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NYU Tandon will open a research center for wireless technologies in a further bid to bolster a technology hub in downtown Brooklyn. About 23,000 square feet of research space is scheduled to open at the downtown Brooklyn campus this winter. The center—called NYU Wireless—will combine research in wireless technologies, computing and …
Tapping the collective power of wireless devices to boost cell phone signals. Elza Erkip, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, is developing a technology that enables mobiles to forward one another’s signals to the receiver. By combining the power of surrounding smartphones, laptops, and other wireless devices, this technology would help the average …
NYU and NYU-Tandon have created several new faculty positions, have invested $3.5 Million in funding, and are providing an additional $4 Million in world-class research space upgrades to form a new center of excellence, NYU WIRELESS, the first academic center of its kind in the world. NYU WIRELESS is an interdisciplinary research center that is equipped to develop revolutionary circuits and systems for several …
Source: NYU.edu In a harbinger of things to come, NYU Tandon hosted a brunch late in July at MetroTech Center’s outdoor square for the departments (electrical and computer engineering, and computer science) that encompass NYU WIRELESS, a research center that combines the efforts of NYU’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Langone Medical Center and NYU-Tandon. The center has yet …
Source: http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-blogs/other/4390740/Searching-for-5G The National Science Foundation (NSF), wireless industry leaders, and NYU Tandon have joined efforts, creating a consortium to work towards 5G cellular networks. Once created, the result will be an increase of cell phone capacity of more than 1,000x over 4G networks. Funding the effort is an Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) grant of $800,000, …
Source: NYU.edu See the slides from the 2012 Plenary Lecture by Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport at the Fall 2012 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference held in Quebec City, Canada: Download Link. (Filesize: 25 Mb) NYU WIRELESS researchers teams with national science foundation and wireless industry leaders to develop promising new spectrum and technology for 5g cellular …
Source: http://nyconvergence.com/2012/07/nyu-poly-given-2-mill-grant-to-develop-5g-network.html Brooklyn’s NYU Tandon Campus researchers have been given $2 million to work towards developing 5G cellular networks, which could make download speeds up to 1,000 times faster than 4G and offer tons of space since it is currently completely unused. The technology isn’t expected to be developed until 2020, according to Crain’s NY Business. Theodore Rappaport, who was …
Source : NYU.EDU Fraida Fund, an undergraduate at NYU Tandon, has been selected to receive a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, a highly competitive award reserved for exceptional students pursuing research-based graduate degrees. Fund, who will earn her bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering from NYU-Tandon this spring, will enter the PhD program …