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Speaker
Prof. John Cioffi, Stanford University
Abstract
Next-Generation (5G, 6G, ...) communication systems are the global support systems for the internet and recently have surged to crucial importance to human sustainability, economic opportunity, and all nations' defensive capabilities. These networks increasingly depend on implementation in software data centers that allocate resources (spectrum and spatial position) dynamically through open-source software; indeed even physical-layer modulation, coding, decoding, and related functions will reside in (often open-source) software. This software dependency permits much greater network sophistication and the potential to accommodate billions of people and trillions of linked devices efficiently, but it also invites the use of artificially intelligent ("machine-learned") solutions that will redefine the global avenir.
Bio
Stanford Professor since 1986 (now recalled emeritus), and Chairman of ASSIA Inc (2003-present). BSEE- Illinois, MSEE and PhDEE-Stanford. Cioffi's experience includes 6 years at Bell Laboratories (Member Technical Staff), 2 years at IBM Research (Research Staff Member), 8 years at Amati (Founder and CTO; Later Texas Instruments Broadband Group), and 14 years at ASSIA Inc as fulltime CEO.
Cioffi received the 2023 United States Medal of Technology from President J. Biden. Cioffi's other awards include IEEE AG Bell (2010), Millennium, and L.K. Kirchmayer (Graduate Teaching) (2014) Medals, IEEE Armstrong (2013) and Kobayashi (2001) Awards, US National (2001), UK Royal (2009), and Scottish Royal (2024) Academies of Engineering, Marconi Fellow (2006), Internet Hall of Fame (2014), Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame (2018), 2018 IEEE Women-in-Communications-Mentoring Award, and many IEEE best-paper awards. Broadband World Forum Lifetime Achievement Award (2014) and American National Standards Outstanding Achievement Award 1996.
Cioffi has served 12 boards of directors of public and private companies, including presently ASSIA (Chair), PhyTunes (Chair), and the Marconi Society (nonprofit). He presently serves as an advisor to VecML (an artificial intelligence company) and Zenith Aerospace (an unmanned aerial vehicle communication company). Cioffi has published over 800 papers and holds over 150 patents, of which many are heavily licensed including key necessary patents for the international standards in Wi-Fi (802.11 and Wi-Fi Alliance), Cellular (3GPP and O-RAN), xDSL (ITU), and Cable's DOCSIS.