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Arun Netravali, Former Bell Labs President and Digital Video Pioneer, Awarded the 2017 Marconi Prize

Enabled today’s digital TV, HDTV and video services by pioneering the key base MPEG technology MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, June 15, 2017 The Marconi Society, dedicated to furthering scientific achievements in communications and related technologies,…
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Robert Tkach To Lead Marconi Society As Vice Chairman

Optical fiber pioneer and industry leader joins Vint Cerf in leading foundation dedicated to carrying on Marconi’s legacy by supporting next generation of scientists MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, June 14, 2017 The Marconi Society, dedicated to furthering…

NYU WIRELESS and Sprint Join Forces to Advance 5G Mobile Technology

NYU WIRELESS and Sprint today announced they are working together to further the development of mobile 5G. Sprint joins the university research center at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering as an industry affiliate sponsor. As an industry…

Marconi Chair Vint Cerf on His 'Love Affair' With Tech and What’s Coming Next

The father of the internet looks back at the last 50 years and ahead to what faces IT When internet pioneer Vinton Cerf was 10, he was working on advanced math, and by the time he was 17, he was tinkering at programming at UCLA and beginning…

Marconi's First Message

Canadian author, Lisa Moore, is inspired by Guglielmo Marconi's innovations to connect us all. Marconi BY LISA MOORE Published May 18, 2017 – The Globe and Mail He was not at the table. Then he was at the table without ever crossing the…

Marconi Fellow, Martin G. Hellman, Offers Advice to NYU Graduates - #NYU2017

Seventeen prominent NYU alumni offer words of wisdom to this year's graduating class. You're graduating. Congratulations! And then what?! It's totally normal to feel mixed emotions on Commencement Day, a milestone that marks both the culmination…
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DSL Pioneer and Marconi Fellow, John Cioffi, Describes Terabit Future

By Rick Merritt SAN JOSE, Calif. – At a time when carriers are pondering an expensive shift from copper cables to optical fibers, a pioneer of digital subscriber lines is proposing a novel upgrade that someday could deliver terabit data rates. In…
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Marconi Fellow, Martin D. Hellman: Let's Reconsider Russia

By Dorothie and Martin Hellman.  Moving beyond fear, anger and hate. RUSSIA’S 8,000 NUCLEAR WEAPONS make it the nation most capable of destroying us, and the poor state of Russian-American relations makes that risk larger than it needs to…

Other Marconi News…

February 16, 2017
IEEE Unveils Details of “Tech for Humanity Series” Held at the Annual SXSW® 2017 Festival

December 28, 2016
‘Father of the cell phone,’ 88, still bullish on mobile

December 26, 2016
Irwin Jacobs: from telecom mogul to Salk Institute leader

September 19, 2016
Villanova Engineering Alumnus Honored with Marconi Society Young Scholar Award

September 17
Indian-origin MIT scientist wins award for research on radio waves

September 16
Indian-American Dinesh Bharadia wins 2016 Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award

September 15, 2016
Indian-origin MIT Scientist Wins $ 4,000 Award for Research on Radio Waves

September 15, 2016
Indian Origin MIT Researcher Wins Award For Work on Radio Waves

September 15, 2016
Indian Researcher Does What Marconi Couldn’t

September 15, 2016
India-born MIT Scientists win Prestigious U.S. Award

September 14, 2016
Two India-Born MIT Scientists Win Prestigious US Awards

September 14, 2016
NYU Wireless Doctoral Student Wins Marconi Young Scholars Award

August 24, 2016
Alumnus Earns National Recognition