The Future of Wireless Communications Hint: It's not a linear * 4:30PM, Wed May 16, 2018 in Gates B03

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: "Dennis Allison" <allison () stanford edu>
> Date: May 13, 2018 at 12:26:56 PM EDT
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> Subject: [EE CS Colloq] The Future of Wireless Communications Hint: It's not a linear * 4:30PM, Wed May 16, 2018 in 
> Gates B03
> Reply-To: "Dennis Allison" <allison () stanford edu>
>
> Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium
>
> 4:30 PM, Wednesday, May 16, 2018
> NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building Room B3 
> http://ee380.stanford.edu
>
> The Future of Wireless Communications Hint: It's not a linear amplifier
> Doug Kirkpatrick 
> President & CEO 
> Eridan Communications, Inc.
> About the talk:
>
> Wireless communications are ubiquitous in the 21 st century--we use them to read the newspaper, talk to our 
> colleagues or children, watch sporting events or other forms of entertainment, and to monitor and control the 
> environment we live ins-- among just a few. This exponentiation of demand for wireless capacity has driven a new era 
> of innovation in this space because spectrum and energy are expensive and constrained resources.
>
> The future of wireless communications will demand leaps in spectrum efficiency, bandwidth efficiency, and power 
> efficiency for successful technology deployments. Key applications that will fundamentally change how we interact 
> with wireless systems and the demands we place on wireless technologies include Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, 
> massive MIMO, and the evasive unicorn of the "universal handset". While each of these breakthrough "system" 
> capabilities make simultaneous demands of spectrum efficiency, bandwidth efficiency, and power efficiency, the 
> current suite of legacy technologies forces system designers to make undesirable trade-offs because of the 
> limitations of linear amplifier technology.  
>
> Eridan's solution is the antithesis of "linear". The Switch Mode Mixer Modulator (SMs3 ) technology emphasizes 
> precision and flexibility, and simultaneously delivers spectrum efficiency, bandwidth efficiency, and power 
> efficiency. The resulting capabilities dramatically increase total wireless capacity with minimum need for expanding 
> operations into extended regions of the wireless spectrum.
>
> This presentation will discuss the driving forces behind wireless system performance, the physics of linear 
> amplifiers and SM3, measured performance of SM3 systems, and the implications for wireless system capabilities in the 
> near future.
>
> About the speaker:
>
>       Dr. Kirkpatrick is the co-founder and CEO of Eridan Communications, Inc., a Santa Clara based company 
> developing transceiver products for the next generations of wireless communications -- 5G and beyond. Dr. Kirkpatrick 
> is also a founding General Partner of InnerProduct Partners (IPP), a San Francisco based early stage VC firm, and the 
> acting CEO of a very early stage startup in rare-earth- free permanent magnets based in Cleveland. Previous to 
> InnerProduct Partners, from 2010-2013 he was a partner at Vantage Point Capital Partners, a large multi- stage VC 
> firm, also based in the San Francisco Bay area.
> Prior to Vantage Point Capital Partners, from 2002--2010, Dr. Kirkpatrick was a Program Manager and Chief Scientist 
> at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). While he was at DARPA he started and managed programs that, 
> among other things, developed and deployed the first LED flashlights, started and validated the DOD path to bio 
> renewable jet fuel, developed and demonstrated ultra-high efficiency solar cells, developed and demonstrated full 3d 
> dynamic holographic displays, and developed and demonstrated portable tools for the rapid de-novo synthesis of DNA up 
> to 10,000 base pairs long. In addition to his DARPA role he was simultaneously the Senior Technologist for Technology 
> Productization for the Undersecretary for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics in the Department of Defense. Prior 
> to his tour at DARPA he was the VP for R&D at Fusion Lighting, a lighting technology startup in the greater 
> Washington DC area, and before that a VP and Division Manager for Science Applications International Corporation, 
> also in the greater Washington DC area.
>
> Dr. Kirkpatrick is a Fellow of the American Physics Society, a Member of the IEEE, and a Member of the Materials 
> Research Society. Dr. Kirkpatrick holds a BS degree in Physics and Mathematics (1980) from the College of William and 
> Mary and a Ph.D. in Physics from M.I.T. (1988).
>
> Contact information:
>
> Dr. Doug Kirkpatrick
> President & CEO
> Eridan Communications, Inc. dkirkpatrick () eridancommunications com
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>
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