[CSEE-colloq] talk: Rose on Write or Radiate, 1pm Fri ROOM CHANGE TO ITE 227

[Tim Finin]

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                            WRITE OR RADIATE

             Professor Christopher Rose, Rutgers University
                1:00pm Friday 9 December 2011, ITE 227

Communication theory researchers do the relatively routine but deeply
important work that maintains and expands our increasingly connected
society.  It is therefore easy to forget that communications research,
by its very nature, is more than about telephones and the Internet,
but is about interactions of any and every kind.  That is,
communication theory is an inherently profound subject and as
communications researchers, we should be sensitive to the deeper
questions our discipline often raises. In illustration, we describe
how some routine wireless research had something surprising to say
about how we might efficiently communicate across a wide range of
distances and in so doing knocked on the door of one of the "big
questions" -- are we alone in the universe?