Robert Calderbank

"From Communications to Radar and Back"

Thursday, October 11, 2007, 3 p.m.
Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105

Abstract:  Today synergies with cooperative wireless communication are creating an opportunity to develop the Shannon Theory of distributed active sensing. This talk will explore how to use the available degrees of freedom of time, space, frequency and polarization to see faster, to see more finely where necessary, and to see with greater sensitivity, by being more discriminating about how we look.

Bio:  Robert Calderbank is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Princeton University where he directs the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics.  He joined Princeton from AT&T where he was Vice President for Research and responsible for designing the first Research Lab in the world where the primary focus is data at massive scale.  Inventions by Dr. Calderbank in his career at Bell Labs and AT&T have transformed communications practice in voiceband modems, advanced read channels for magnetic recording, and wireless communications. He is an IEEE Fellow and was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2005.