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Young Scholar Salvatore Campione wins ACES Early Career Award

Salvatore Campione has been awarded the 2017 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Early Career Award “for innovative contributions to the electromagnetic modeling of complex systems and structures, from microwave to optical…

FCC Grants NYU WIRELESS Early ‘Program Experimental License’ for Cutting-edge Work Throughout the Radio Spectrum

By NYU Wireless This year many mobile carriers are launching early services for 5G — the next generation of wireless that promises speeds 10 to 100 times faster than 4G LTE — and a host of other technology companies are testing devices…
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Young Scholar, Hao Zou, Named 2017 Global Young Leader by World Economic Forum

Developing gene editing technology, building computers that recognize human emotions, leading multi-billion dollar companies to renewable energy, and rebuilding civil society in a war torn nation. These are some of the Young Global Leaders Class…

Marconi Fellow Tim Berners-Lee Wins Prestigious Turing Award

CSAIL researcher honored for inventing the web and developing the protocols that spurred its global use. MIT Professor Tim Berners-Lee, the researcher who invented the World Wide Web and is one of the world’s most influential voices…

Marconi Society Sponors WCNC2017 Poster Session for IEEE Communications Society

In keeping with its commitment to encouraging young scientists in communications-related fields, the Marconi Society sponsored the poster session at WCNC2017, an annual meeting of the IEEE Communications Society.  WCNC2017 was co-chaired this…

Marconi Fellow Bob Metcalfe on Encouraging More Startups at the University of Texas at Austin

By Hojun Choi, Silicon Hills News University of Texas president Greg Fenves and Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, explored ways that universities can have a bigger impact on the world at the “Research Universities Should be Better at…

Vint Cerf: Marconi Society Chair and Google's Internet Evangelist on the Next Steps in Connectivity

By Catherine Cheney, Devex AUSTIN, Texas — Vint Cerf — one of the fathers of the internet and now “chief internet evangelist” at Google — drew a massive crowd at South by Southwest this week for his talk on “An Internet For And…

Tim Berners-Lee: We Must Tackle Fake News for the Benefit of All of Humanity

By Lucy Handley, special to CNBC Worldwide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee has called on online giants including Google and Facebook to tackle the spread of fake news online, in an open message published to mark the web's 28th birthday. "Over…
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One Thing You Can Do to Help a Young Researcher's Career

Do you know an outstanding young researcher in networking and communications? Each year the Marconi Society, dedicated to furthering scientific achievements in communications and related technologies, searches the world for a diverse group…

Georgia Tech Named as One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies

Georgia Institute of Technology’s College of Engineering, led by Marconi Society Board Member and George P. Imlay Jr. Dean of Computing Zvi Galil, has been named to Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies in 2017 for its innovative…