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InterDigital, Calit2 Complete 1st Phase of InterDigital Innovation ChallengeApr 12, 2012 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- InterDigital and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at the University of California, San Diego announced the successful completion of the first phase of the InterDigital Innovation Challenge (I2C). I2C is a student technology engineering competition. Despite the very challenging nature of wireless engineering, InterDigital reported that the competition attracted 15 entries from leading universities in the United States and Canada. According to a release, the just-concluded submission phase of the Innovation Challenge drew proposals from teams at Stanford University, Columbia University, Rutgers University, Drexel University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of California campuses in San Diego, Berkeley and Irvine, Canada's Waterloo University and Universite Laval, and the Ohio State University, among others. Teams were required to submit technical proposals in the areas of radio signal propagation and processing; radio modem innovations; energy improvement in radio processing; radio network management and systems innovations; compression and data management techniques, or wireless and network virtualization. "The tremendous response, and the high technical level of the submissions, underscore the value of partnering with Calit2 to create this competition," said Naresh Soni, Chief Technology Officer at InterDigital. "Development of leading-edge wireless networking solutions is very, very challenging. We at InterDigital understand this, our business is based on solving those technical challenges, and as a result we're pleased to support such development via this competition. It's gratifying to see that support rewarded, and to see that the emerging research talent for addressing those critical issues is so robust." With the submission phase complete, participants now enter a period of public voting. Members of the public are invited to register at i2c.calit2.net/,where they can review the submissions and vote for their favorite until public voting ends on April 30. The winner of this 'popular vote,' as well as nine other finalists selected by the competition's nine-member judging panel, will move on to the final round, or "incubation period." In this final round, each finalist must submit more detailed information in support of their proposals in the form of code, analysis, simulations, models, prototypes and/or platforms. Finalists have until July 13 to complete their submissions. "I am pleased to note the participation of teams from many of the prominent wireless centers around the country," said Ramesh Rao, Director of the UCSD division of Calit2. "The period of public voting will draw further attention to the InterDigital Innovation Challenge." The judging panel for the competition includes Lawrence Larson, Dean of the Brown University School of Engineering; Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Rutgers School of Engineering Professor and WINLAB Director; Jerry Gibson, UC Santa Barbara College of Engineering Professor; Arogyaswami Paulraj, Stanford University Professor Emeritus; Hamid Jafarkhani, UC Irvine Engineering Professor and Director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing; Michael Robertson, founder and CEO of MP3Tunes; Martha Dennis, telecommunications entrepreneur and venture capitalist; as well as Soni and Dr. Rao. The winners of the competition will be announced Sept. 21, at GigaOM's flagship Mobilize event in San Francisco (event.gigaom.com/mobilize/). Participants in the InterDigital Innovation Challenge are vying for $175,000 in total awards. InterDigital develops wireless technologies that are at the core of mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. More Information: www.interdigital.com www.calit2.net ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) |