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News Release from: Texas Instruments (April 2001-March 2006)
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 January 2002
TI bolsters DSP university programme
TI has announced a three-year, $3 million donation to members of its DSP Leadership University programme
As part of its ongoing commitment to bolster innovative DSP education and collaborative research at elite electrical engineering programmes, TI has announced a three-year, $3 million donation to members of its DSP Leadership University programme, which includes Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Rice University in Houston.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 January 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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'TI's DSP Leadership University programme is a perfect example of how collaborative relationships between universities and public companies should work', said Dr Al Oppenheim, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT.
'Industry researchers from TI bring tremendous expertise and experience in digital signal processing, and add a new dimension to the educational experience for those universities involved in the DSP Leadership University programme.
At the same time, the university environment is well suited to explore new ideas and directions in uninhibited and unconstrained ways.
MIT's participation allows us to pursue many new fundamental directions for signal processing algorithms, such as our recent work with distributed signal processing, algorithms inspired by quantum mechanics and chaos theory, and various new approaches to wireless communications'.
'TI's DSP Leadership University provides critically needed, long-term funding for specific electrical engineering education and research projects at Rice', said Dr Sidney Burrus, dean of the school of engineering at Rice University.
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'Inter-university collaborations in DSP - particularly among Rice, MIT and Georgia Tech - have been tremendously beneficial'.
'At Rice, for example, one research group is concentrating on developing a seamless protocol so that computer users can retain consistent network connections while roaming from various locations.
Another group is working on providing enhanced multimedia services for wireless networks to easily accommodate the diverse applications demanded by today's users', Burrus said.
'At Georgia Tech, the DSP Leadership University programme supports the research of six faculty and six PhD students in electrical engineering', said Dr Ron Schafer, Regents' Professor and John and Marilu McCarty Chair of Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
'Students and faculty work on research projects ranging from wireless video transmission, interpolation for colour digital cameras, face recognition, speech recognition, chaotic systems for digital communication to low-bit-rate speech coding.
All of these projects are interesting, challenging and highly relevant to TI's business, and at the same time, they are yielding publications and potential intellectual property for Georgia Tech.
'In addition to the collaborative research efforts, the three universities benefit from close contact with TI through co-operative internships and project review sessions - opportunities that give students a post graduate competitive advantage', Schafer said.
The three leading DSP-focused universities were selected in 1999 as inaugural members of this programme for university and industry collaboration in research.
In addition to receiving a basic grant of $1 million to fund DSP research over three years, each university will benefit from TI's insight into market needs and from interaction with each other.
'This concept is an invaluable resource to TI and one that gives us true insight into the genius of tomorrow.
Not only do we see unique inter-university collaboration, but we have access to leading research from the three schools and accelerated progress in DSP development', said Torrence Robinson, TI's DSP University Programme Manager.
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