[Quantum-ms] [Seminar] DSI X EE: 3/27 2:30pm, EE Conference Room

[Columbia EE Events]

Hi all, just a reminder this event is happening in an hour. See you soon.



On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM Columbia EE Events <
ee-events at ee.columbia.edu> wrote:

> Hi all, just a reminder this event is happening this Thursday at 2:30pm at
> EE Conference room, 13th floor. See you there.
>
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM Columbia EE Events <
> ee-events at ee.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>> * “Sense, Collect and Move Data” Data Science Institute Center *
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>> *X*
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>> * Electrical Engineering Department Seminar*
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>> *Speaker: *Henning Schulzrinne
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>> *Title:* "Internet For All - Lessons in Trying to Bring High-Speed
>> Broadband to Every Home in the United States"
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>> *Time: *2.30 pm, Thursday, March 27
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>> *Location:* EE Conference Room, Mudd 1300
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>> *Host*: Debasis Mitra
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>> *Abstract:* Since 2010, the U.S. government has created a number of
>> programs to build out internet access in high-cost areas, along with
>> attempts to make internet access available to low-income households,
>> schools, libraries and health clinics. The 2021 Infrastructure Investment
>> and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocated $42.5 billion for broadband deployment as the
>> BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment), with the goal of providing
>> 100 Megabit or faster high-quality internet access to every household and
>> small business in the 56 states and territories within four years of
>> selecting providers. (This amount is roughly four times the total NSF
>> budget.) NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration),
>> located within the Department of Commerce, administers the BEAD project. I
>> served two years on the BEAD policy team. In this talk, I will discuss:
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>> * Why subsidize rural broadband? What has been tried before?
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>> * What are the difficult policy choices in getting to 100% deployment?
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>> * What roles do bespoke software, "big data," and data analysis play in
>> administering complex grant programs?
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>> * How do government teams work in practice?
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>> *Bio:* Henning Schulzrinne is a faculty in the Departments of Computer
>> Science and Electrical Engineering. Since 2010, he has served in various
>> roles at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including CTO, worked
>> as a Technology Fellow for Senator Ron Wyden in 2019-2020, and as a
>> Broadband Advisor from 2022 to 2024 for NTIA. He is currently a member of
>> the FCC Technological Advisory Council and the NAE Computer Science and
>> Technology Board.
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