Micron Expansion in Central New York

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342037

Micron Technology has recently announced an historic investment of up to $100B for a Central New York memory megafab. Micron will provide an overview of the Central New York megafab project to the regional engineering community. Topics covered will include including Micron company and product profile, overview of Micron's semiconductor manufacturing and the focus of the megafab, workforce descriptions for the megafab, and plans for community engagement for support of the megafab. For the 1-hour session, Micron will target 45 minutes for speaker introductions/presentations and 15 minutes for questions. Speaker(s): Glen Martin, Ron Martin Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342037

5G FWA: Ensuring the ultimate CPE experience

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347618

In this webinar, the following topics will be discussed: - The FWA market for chipsets, devices - Varying operator deployment scenarios, globally - CPE testing aspects for R&D, production, conformance, and carrier acceptance - CPE vendor case study with Casa Systems Co-sponsored by: IEEE North Jersey Section Speaker(s): Mike Cornelius, Goce Talaganov Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/347618

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) for Software Radio

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320598

(https://ieeeboston.org/event/dspswradio/?instance_id=3236) First Video Release and Orientation, Thursday, January 19, 2023, 4:00PM - 4:30PM Additional videos released weekly in advance of that week’s live session! Live Workshops: 4:00PM – 5:30PM EST; Thursdays, January 26, February 2, 9, 16 and 23. Attendees will have access to the recorded session and exercises for two months (until April 23) after the live session ends! New Format Combining Live Workshops with Pre-recorded Video This is a hands-on course providing pre-recorded lectures that students can watch on their own schedule and an unlimited number of times prior to live Q&A/Workshop sessions with the instructor. Ten 1.5 hour videos released 2 per week while the course is in session will be available for up to two months after the conclusion of the course. Course Summary This course builds on the IEEE course “DSP for Wireless Communications” also taught by Dan Boschen, further detailing digital signal processing most applicable to practical real-world problems and applications in radio communication systems. Students need not have taken the prior course if they are familiar with fundamental DSP concepts such as the Laplace and Z transform and basic digital filter design principles. This course brings together core DSP concepts to address signal processing challenges encountered in radios and modems for modern wireless communications. Specific areas covered include carrier and timing recovery, equalization, automatic gain control, and considerations to mitigate the effects of RF and channel distortions such as multipath, phase noise and amplitude/phase offsets. Dan builds an intuitive understanding of the underlying mathematics through the use of graphics, visual demonstrations, and real-world applications for mixed signal (analog/digital) modern transceivers. This course is applicable to DSP algorithm development with a focus on meeting practical hardware development challenges, rather than a tutorial on implementations with DSP processors. Now with Jupyter Notebooks! Speaker(s): Dan Boschen , Agenda: Topics / Schedule: Class 1: DSP Review, Radio Architectures, Digital Mapping, Pulse Shaping, Eye Diagrams Class 2: ADC Receiver, CORDIC Rotator, Digital Down Converters, Numerically Controlled Oscillators Class 3: Digital Control Loops; Output Power Control, Automatic Gain Control Class 4: Digital Control Loops; Carrier and Timing Recovery, Sigma Delta Converters Class 5: RF Signal Impairments, Equalization and Compensation, Linear Feedback Shift Registers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320598

Communications and Networking in LEO Mega-Constellations

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342993

On Thursday, Feb 16, 2023, the (https://www.TechnologyOnTap.org) will host a presentation on Communications and Networking in LEO Mega-Constellations by Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt, PhD from 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST on Zoom followed by a networking session. About the Topic The emerging low Earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellation networks, planned to be composed of thousands of satellites, have the potential to connect everyone through their global footprint and bridge the long-existing digital divide. This talk will focus on the communications and networking aspects of these mega-constellations and their integration with the terrestrial networks. The associated communication and networking problems will be investigated along with potential remedies such as the use of distributed massive MIMO and high altitude platform station (HAPS) systems. The talk will conclude with an overview of the open issues and future research directions. About the Speaker (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunes-karabulut-kurt-1715773/) PhD earned a B.S. degree with high honors in electronics and electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, and a M.A.Sc and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada. She was a Research Assistant with the CASP Group at the University of Ottawa. She was an algorithm Engineer at TenXc Wireless, Canada. Dr. Karabulut Kurt was an algorithm Engineer and designer Edgewater Computer Systems Inc., Canada. She was a senior R&D engineer at Turkcell Research and Development Applied Research and Technology, Istanbul. Dr. Kurt is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal in Montréal, QC, Canada. She was a Professor of Electronics and Communications Engineering, and the director of the (https://www.thal.itu.edu.tr/en/index.html) at the Istanbul Technical University. Dr. Kurt is a Marie Curie Fellow and has received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist (TÜBA-GEBIP) Award in 2019. In addition, she is an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. Dr. Kurt is currently serving as an associate technical editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine, an associate editor of IEEE Communication Letters, an associate editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and an area editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking. She is a member of the IEEE WCNC Steering Board. She is serving as the secretary of IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee and also the chair of the IEEE special interest group entitled (https://sites.google.com/view/satellite-mega-constellations/home?authuser=0). She is a Distinguished Lecturer of Vehicular Technology Society Class of 2022. Her research interests include space information networks, satellite networking, wireless network coding, wireless security, space security, and wireless testbeds. CNNNJ Invites You to Join the Network Founded in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) encourages and promotes the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry. The CNNNJ invites all engineers engaged in independent practice to join its ranks. For more details on member benefits and admission requirements, please visit our website at (https://www.technologyontap.org/). Agenda: Introductions Speaker presentation Audience questions welcomed Networking Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/342993

Communications and Networking in LEO Mega-Constellations

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/345688

The emerging low Earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellation networks, planned to be composed of thousands of satellites, have the potential to connect everyone through their global footprint and bridge the long-existing digital divide. This talk will focus on the communications and networking aspects of these mega-constellations and their integration with the terrestrial networks. The associated communication and networking problems will be investigated along with potential remedies such as the use of distributed massive MIMO and high altitude platform station (HAPS) systems. The talk will conclude with an overview of the open issues and future research directions. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Consultants’ Network of Northern New Jersey Agenda: 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM EST presentation by Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt, PhD from on Zoom followed by a networking session. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/345688

Coopetition in Information Retrieval Research

Room: Room 105, Bldg: Computer Science Building, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 08544, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/345494

This talk explores an interesting approach for text retrieval: a community-based approach called "coopetitions." Coopetitions are activities in which competitors cooperate for a common good. Community evaluations such as the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC, trec.nist.gov) are prototypical examples of coopetitions in information retrieval, and they have now been part of the field for more than thirty years. This longevity and the proliferation of shared evaluation tasks suggest that, indeed, the net impact of community evaluations is positive. Coopetitions can improve effectiveness for a retrieval task by setting up a collaborative structure: establishing a research cohort and constructing the infrastructure (including problem definition, test collections, scoring metrics, and research methodology) that the participants need to make progress on the task. They can also facilitate technology transfer and amortize the infrastructure costs. Yet these benefits only accrue when the infrastructure is a good abstraction of the real task. Information retrieval's test collection paradigm is becoming increasingly untenable as corpus size grows and search engine effectiveness improves. This talk will review what we have learned about test-collection-based evaluation of search engines from TREC and examine the prospects of search evaluation in the future. Speaker(s): Ellen Voorhees, Room: Room 105, Bldg: Computer Science Building, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 08544, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/345494