Professor Robert Calderbank

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The ECE Distinguished Lectures Series Presents
Professor Robert Calderbank Electrical
Engineering Mathematics Princeton University
From Communications to Radar and Back

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 ATT  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
ATT 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.
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.
Thursday, October 11th 3 to 4 pm Sandford Fleming
1105