Whatever Happened to “Personal Broadband Wireless?
Check out the interview with Dr. Martin Cooper at ESC Boston!
Tuesday, October 28th
8:00 - 9:00 am
Ballroom B
Presented by:
Dr. Martin Cooper, Executive Chairman and Founder
ArrayComm
Ever since the transition from analog to digital cellular that started 12 years ago, the public has been tantalized with the promise of a plethora of revolutionary applications energized by broadband digital transmission to the person. And yet, the vast majority of communications today remains voice. The only widespread digital application is SMS (short-message-service). A tiny segment of the world’s population uses personal devices for e-mail and an even smaller segment downloads and executes some of the tens of thousands of applications that are available. Martin Cooper will discuss the reasons for this apparent failure and the potential for a true revolution based upon new technology, new operator practices and new market attitudes.
Martin Cooper is executive chairman and founder of ARRAYCOMM, Inc., He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the personal communications industry and as an innovator in spectrum management. He is an inventor, introduced, in 1973, the first portable cellular radiotelephone, and has been called the father of portable cellular telephony. ArrayComm, LLC. is the world’s leader in MAS, Multi-antenna Signal Processing, also known as smart antenna technology. Mr. Cooper spent 29 years at Motorola where, as a V.P and division manager and, later, corporate R&D director he created several major businesses in addition to its cellular business including IMTS, High-capacity paging, and trunked land-mobile systems. He is a serial entrepreneur having started several businesses in the wireless industry. He serves on the United States Department Of Commerce Spectrum Advisory Task Force and has testified before the FCC and the Senate.
Mr. Cooper is a graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology from who he received bachelor's (1950) and master's (1956) degrees in Electrical Engineering and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy (2004). He serves on this university’s Board of Trustees.
Dances with Robots: The Story of One Engineer, 112 Little Robots and the Toys, Insects and Star Wars Movies that Made It All Possible
Thursday, October 30
12:15 - 1:15 pm
Ballroom B
Presented by :
James McLurkin, Robotics Engineer and Leading Designer of Robot Swarms
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
The presentation starts with a lighthearted look at society’s views on robots, Hollywood's portrayal of them, the current state of the art, and the future of the technology. Philosophical questions about the nature of intelligence are discussed, as they pose serious problems for the creation of artificially intelligent devices.
The final conclusion? Robots are phenomenally stupid and we should be more concerned about the next asteroid strike than a robotic rebellion. In spite of this, robots are still useful, and swarms are the future of robotics. McLurkin motivates the need for swarms of robots, and explains the technology required to produce group behaviors on one hundred robots. Live robot demonstrations and video clips of the swarm in action punctuate the main points.
James McLurkin of MIT is one of the world's leading designers of robot "swarms"—groups of robots that work together for a greater purpose.
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