Media Watch
UCI electrical engineering team looks ‘Beyond 5G’ with new wireless transceiver
Daily Pilot -
A team at UC Irvine has invented a new, wireless transceiver that pushes beyond even recently deployed 5G cell phone technology. … Current high-speed transmitters and receivers in telecommunication are dependent on power-hungry digital signal processing according to Payam Heydari, senior author and professor of electrical engineering and computer science [at the University of California, Irvine.] “Everything is done in the digital, and then it was about two [and-a-half] years ago that I questioned this very important, but fundamental thought,” he said. [Subscription required, you can request an electronic copy of the article by sending an email to communications@uci.edu.]
McMurry in “Unique” Dual Honda Internship, Race Program
Sportscar365 -
Matt McMurry says his internship with Honda Performance Development has played a helping hand in his Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup program with the manufacturer’s GT3 car. … McMurry, who is majoring in aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine, said both the internship and racing opportunities came together around the same time at the beginning of the year. “It’s been great,” he told Sportscar365.
Electrical engineers unveil 'beyond 5G' wireless transceiver
Electronics360 -
A team of electrical engineers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) tackled the question of whether wireless systems are capable of the same high performance and speeds achieved with fiber-optic networks. The result is a 4.4 mm2wireless silicon chip that boosts radio frequencies into the 100 GHz range, four times the speed of the 5G wireless communications standard. For this reason, the team describes the chip as "beyond 5G."
5G Has Already Usurped 6G and It's Not Even Here Yet
Interesting Engineering -
"We call our chip 'beyond 5G' because the combined speed and data rate that we can achieve is two orders of magnitude higher than the capability of the new wireless standard," said senior author Payam Heydari, NCIC Labs director and UCI professor of electrical engineering & computer science. "In addition, operating in a higher frequency means that you and I and everyone else can be given a bigger chunk of the bandwidth offered by carriers."
Latest tech news and top tech stories
Tech Startups -
Engineers at the University of California, Irvine have invented an end-to-end transmitter-receiver silicon chip that is capable of processing digital signals with significantly greater speed and energy efficiency because of its unique digital-analog architecture. The new wireless transceiver boosts radio frequencies into 100-gigahertz territory, quadruple the speed of the upcoming 5G, or fifth-generation, wireless communications standard.
Researchers create tiny ‘beyond 5G’ chip for 100GHz data transmission
Venture Beat -
“We call our chip ‘beyond 5G’ because the combined speed and data rate that we can achieve is two orders of magnitude higher than the capability of the new wireless standard,” explained UCI electrical engineering and computer science professor Payam Heydari. “[O]perating in a higher frequency means that you and I and everyone else can be given a bigger chunk of the bandwidth offered by carriers.” Hossein Mohammadnezhad, lead author of the academic paper announcing the project, says that the “new transceiver is the first to provide end-to-end capabilities in this part of the spectrum.”
Ethics and automation: What to do when workers are displaced
MIT -
Pramod Khargonekar, vice chancellor for research at University of California, Irvine, and Meera Sampath, associate vice chancellor for research at the State University of New York, presented findings from their paper, “Socially Responsible Automation: A Framework for Shaping the Future.” The research makes the case that “humans will and should remain critical and central to the workplace of the future, controlling, complementing and augmenting the strengths of technological solutions.”
Devices that emit piercing, high-pitched sounds installed at parks to stop teen loitering
Today -
"These devices have been banned in some municipalities in Europe," Dr. Hamid Djalilian, professor of otolaryngology and biomedical engineering and director of otology and neurotology at the University of California, Irvine told TODAY. "The main issue is that children who are young and can't express themselves could be hearing the sound," Djalilian said, citing children with autism as a group who could be affected.
How octopus could help us to keep, or lose, our cool
SF Gate -
[Alon] Gorodetsky’s lab at the University of California at Irvine (UCI) has been trying to make what he calls “technologically valuable things” based on cephalopods’ camouflaging skills. They’ve finally succeeded in creating a material that will let people, not disguise themselves as rocks and algae, but regulate how warm or cool they feel. … “There’s a world of applications for this material,” Gorodetsky says. “We just have to convince people to wear it and use it.”
BizBrief: Today’s News To Know
Long Beach Business Journal -
Cynthia Guidry, who most recently served as deputy executive director of Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), was today announced as the new director of the Long Beach Airport. … She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Irvine and a master’s in business administration from Pepperdine University.