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Untangling the Office: Multi-gigabit Wireless Research Could Soon Make Wired Computers and Peripherals Obsolete
Georgia Institute of Technology (07/20/07)

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) are exploring the possibility of creating broadband connections and sending high data transmission over short distances through the use of extremely high radio frequencies. Using frequencies around 60 GHz, which are currently unlicensed in the United States and free for anyone to use, the researchers have already achieved wireless data transfer rates of as high as 15 Gbps at a distance of one meter. “The goal here is to maximize data throughput to make possible a host of new wireless applications for home and office connectivity,” says professor Joy Laskar, GEDC director and lead researcher on the project. Stephane Pinel, another lead researcher on the project, says the GEDC’s “multi-gigabit wireless” project is expected to have a major impact on data and video applications in particular, and that extremely high-speed, peer-to-peer data connections could be available in less than two years. Storage devices such as external hard drives, laptops, MP3 players, cell phones, and others would be able to transfer massive amounts of data in a few seconds, and data centers could wirelessly install racks of servers. “Our work represents a huge leap in available throughput,” Pinel says. “At 10 Gbps, you could download a DVD from a kiosk to your cell phone in five seconds, or you could quickly synchronize two laptops or two iPods.” Pinel says the researchers expect to be able to double the transition rates by next year, and to decrease the already-low power consumption. “We are pursuing a combination of system design and circuit design, employing both analog and digital techniques,” Pinel says. “It’s definitely a very exciting mixed-signal problem that you have to solve.”
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Speech-recognition technologies are growing at 22% a year

Speech-recognition technologies are growing at 22% a year with sales forecast to reach $2.3 billion in 2007, and that is good news for Nuance Technology.

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