InterDigital y Calit2 Entregan Lista de Ganadores de Competencia Interdigital Innovations Challenge
San Francisco, Calif., Sept. 21, 2012 — InterDigital (NASDAQ: IDCC) y el California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), anunciaron esta tarde la lista de ganadores de la competencia InterDigital Innovation Challenge (I2C) durante la conferencia GigaOM’s Mobilize2012 en San Francisco. Un panel muy apreciado de jueces representando a la academia y la industria, otorgaron el primer lugar al equipo de Team Ultrasonic Wireless Sensors de Columbia University, el segundo lugar fue para el equipo Team Airshark of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, y el tercer lugar al equipo Team Null Space Learning Algorithms of Stanford University. El premio de $5,000 "popular choice" ya había sido ororgado a la Universidad Rutgers-based DataMiser team durante la fase de votación por el publico.
La I2C, es una competencia en investigaciones sobre tecnologías wireless en colaboración con Calit2. Esta se lanzó a inicios del 2012 como parte de un extensivo programa de parte de la universidad para nutrir y acelerar las innovaciones en las tecnologías avanzadas wireless, y es abierta a todos los estudiantes de universidades de Norte America.
Los finalistas representaban una larga lista de estas instituciones, teniendose entre otras epresentantes de: Columbia University, Drexel University, Ohio State University, Rutgers University, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at San Diego, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Canada’s Waterloo University and Université Laval, A los once finalistas se les pidió una presentación de una hora durante la conferencia Mobilize 2012 llamada "From the Research Labs”. Todos los equipos presentaron sus proyectos de innovación enfrente de cientos de ejecutivos de empresas en wireless, vice-presidentes, inversionistas, periodistas de la tecnología y asistententes en general, incluyendo las transmisiones en vivo y en-línea:
- The first place, $100,000 cash award, was presented to Team Ultrasonic Wireless Sensors - Ioannis Kymissis, Kshitij Yadav, and Peter Kinget - from Columbia University. Using ultrasound for wireless communication, the invention provides significant energy improvements in radio processing, allowing battery-powered wireless sensors to stay in the field up to ten times longer.
- The second place, $50,000 cash award, was given to Team Airshark - Suman Banerjee and Ashish Patro from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Focused on radio network management and systems innovations, the team developed a software solution for automated and real-time RF diagnosis of non-Wi-Fi® interference to Wi-Fi devices.
- The third prize, $20,000 cash award, was presented to Team Null Space Learning Algorithms - Alexandros Manolakos, Yair Noam, and Andrea Goldsmith - from Stanford University. The team invented a novel approach for radio signal propagation and processing that allows several wireless radios to coexist on the same frequency bands while causing minimal interference.
"Congratulamos y agradecemos a los ganadores y a todos los participantes en esta competencia I2C para el beneficio del desarrollo en innovaciones líderes que atienden a retos técnicos altamente complejos," dijo Naresh Soni, Chief Technology Officer de InterDigital
"Me place mucho tener a equipos participantes de muchas de los centros prominentes en tecnologías wireless de todos el país," dijo Ramesh Rao, Director de la División UCSD de Calit2.
El Panel de jueces incluyo a: Lawrence Larson, Dean of the Brown University School of Engineering; Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers School of Engineering Professor and WINLAB Director; Jerry Gibson, UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering Professor; Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University Professor Emeritus; Hamid Jafarkhani, UC Irvine Engineering Professor y Director del Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing; Michael Robertson, founder and CEO de MP3Tunes; Martha Dennis, empresario de las telecomunicaciones e inversionista de capital; así como Mr. Soni and Dr. Rao.
About InterDigital
InterDigital develops fundamental wireless technologies that are at the core of mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and strategic relationships with many of the world's leading wireless companies. For more information, visit: www.interdigital.com.
About Calit2 at U.C. San Diego
The UC San Diego Division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), together with Calit2’s division at U.C. Irvine, houses more than 1,000 researchers across the two campuses, organized around more than 50 projects on the future of telecommunications and information technology and how these technologies will transform a range of applications important to the California economy and its citizens’ quality of life. For more information about Calit2, visit: www.calit2.net.
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