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News12 Brooklyn features Science of Smart Cities
News12 Brooklyn, July 27th, 2012
New12 Brooklyn highlights the Science of Smart Cities program at NYU-Poly, featuring interviews with Institute president Jerry Hultin and middle school participants.
NYU says that 5G could be here soon
Orlandoadvocate.com, July 27th, 2012
A new scientific project headed by New York University has received $2 million in funding to perform research in the 80 GHz radio spectrum, in an effort to learn more about 5G technology and how it can be used in wireless communications. Overall, about $800,000 is coming from the U.S. National...
NY and CT students' inventions help with food safety
By Dr. Sapna Parikh, abclocal.go.com, July 27th, 2012
Two of the winning teams of an international competition for student inventions that help fix real world problems are from the New York and Connecticut area. One invention, what looks like an ordinary pitcher, is actually a prototype of a smart milk pitcher that tells you if your milk is safe to...
NYU Poly Given $2M Grant to Develop 5G Network
Crain's New York Business, July 23rd, 2012
Brooklyn’s NYU Polytechnical Campus researchers have been given $2 million to work towards developing 5G cellular networks, which could make download speeds up to 1,000 times faster than 4G and offer tons of space, since it is currently completely unused. The technology isn’t expected...
NYU Poly already looking towards 5G networks
By Michael H., phonearena, July 23rd, 2012
We're still in the middle of the whole 4G debate, where the original definition of 4G has had to be changed because of too much false marketing by big carriers, but that isn't stopping researchers from looking into what 5G mobile networks are going to look like. In fact, researchers at...
New York Poly Gets 5G Funding - 1,000 Times Capacity of 4G but Who is Counting?
By Peter Bernstein, Mobility Techzone, July 23rd, 2012
Under the theory that there is no time like the present to create the future, it is good to know that researchers already have their eyes and brains clearly focused on what comes next in wireless. While the commercial wireless world frets over 4G challenges — deployments, business...
Hate buffering? NYU-Poly’s new $2M grant could make 5G cellular networks a reality
By Harrison Weber, The Nextweb, July 23rd, 2012
While I sit here struggling to load Instagram photos on my iPhone thanks to a faux-4G data plan, future-dwellers are zooming around on their flying cell phone scooters watching retina movies via iGlasses. The promise of innovation is always among us, and that’s why the tech industry is so...
Biotech in NYC? Yes, it exists.
technoverseblog.com, July 20th, 2012
I was in Manhattan yesterday at NYU-Poly’s incubator space on Varick Street attending a meetup organized by NYC Bio. They have the modest goal of trying to evolve a biotech ecosystem in the NYC area to rival a few other well-known life-science hubs. One reason I came was to see how many...
Communications Designline Blog
By Carolyn Mathas, EE Times, July 19th, 2012
The National Science Foundation (NSF), wireless industry leaders, and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have joined efforts, creating a consortium to work towards 5G cellular networks. Once created, the result will be an increase of cell phone capacity of more than 1,000x...
New Study to Examine Next Generation Mobile Networks
By Alan, Science Business, July 19th, 2012
Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) in Brooklyn received federal, state, and business funding for a study of new wireless technologies that can define the next generation of mobile devices. Funders of the project include the National Science Foundation, Empire...
