NEWS & PRESS

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WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium Expands to Over Sixty Members
Date released: 16th June 2010

The WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium last month welcomed members from a further six organisations. Over 200 participants now come from 60 over organisations worldwide. This global consortium is aimed at fostering research collaboration between both academic and industrial organisations in the cognitive communications area, and has continued to grow rapidly since its inception at the end of 2008. The Consortium has both experts as well as people from organisations with more limited experience who aspire to develop technology and expertise in the area. The Consortium will hold its first public workshop, WUN COGCOM 2010, in York, UK on 22nd September 2010, in conjunction with the IEEE VTS and Comsoc sponsored International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems.

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk

University of York – Zhejiang University Set-up a Joint Lab for Cognitive Radio and Green Communications
Date released: 16th April 2010

University of York and Zhejiang University, both founding WUN CogCom members, have recently established a jointly run lab for Cognitive Radio and Green Communications. The agreement, signed by York’s Vice Chancellor Prof Brian Cantor and Zhejiang’s President Prof Wei Yang, comes after concluding discussions during the recent visit to Zhejiang University by members of the University. The purpose of the lab is to capitalise on the high levels of complementary activities underway at both institutions. A continuous presence of visiting staff and students at the corresponding institutions is foreseen, along with joint supervision of PhD students, and joint projects. The lab will host an annual seminar and Summer School. Co-Directors of the Lab are Dr David Grace (York) and Prof Honggang Zhang (Zhejiang).

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk or Prof Honggang Zhang

Third Meeting of the WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium Takes Place in Singapore
Date released 12th April 2010

The third meeting of the WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium (www.wun-cogcom.org) took place on April 10th at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Singapore. It was an opportunity for some of its 50+ member organisations to get together to discuss technical issues in Cognitive Communications, staff/student exchanges and next steps to develop the Consortium. Members from North America, Europe, Asia and Australasia joined the one-day meeting in person, and remotely using Skype, seemingly overcoming the problems of time zones. The Consortium is next scheduled to meet in York on 22nd – 23rd September.

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk

WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium Welcomes its First Member from Africa
Date Released: 15th November 2009

The University of Cape Town, South Africa joins the WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium, the first member from the continent of Africa.  They join a further four new members, Communications Research Centre, Canada, University of Swansea and King’s College London from the UK and UNIK (University of Oslo), Norway.  These latest additions to the 35+ member Consortium help enhance the group’s global influence in the rapidly growing field of Cognitive Communications.

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk

WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium Grows to Over Thirty Members
Date released: 29th July 2009

The WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium today welcomed a new intake of members, taking the membership to over thirty organisations worldwide. Since forming at the end of 2008, this global consortium has continued to grow rapidly, welcoming both academic and industrial organisations with an interest in Cognitive Communications. The Consortium has both the founders of the discipline as well as organisations with more limited experience who aspire to develop technology and expertise in the area.

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk

Second meeting of WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium
Date released: 30th June 2009

The second meeting of the WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium (WUN CogCom) took place in Germany on 25th – 26th June in a hotel close to Hannover’s Machsee. The Consortium, chaired by Dr David Grace, aims to foster global research collaboration in the field of Cognitive Communications. The meeting was attended by organisations from countries as far a field as New Zealand and China. The next meeting of WUN CogCom has been scheduled for April 2010 in Singapore, co-located with IEEE DySPAN 2010. This is aimed at supporting growth in the number of Asian organisations expected to join this currently 25-strong Consortium in the next few months.

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk

First meeting of WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium
Date released: 15th January 2009

The University of York hosted the first two-day meeting of the WUN Cognitive Communications Consortium on 8th and 9th January 2009. Over thirty delegates from sixteen global academic and industrial partners came together to discuss collaboration on future research that aims to apply cognition to communications systems, which will significantly enhance the capability of wireless devices in the how they access the radio spectrum and form networks. The multi-disciplinary activity incorporates the fields of wireless communications, distributed artificial intelligence, applied electromagnetics, and implementation. The Consortium is led by Dr David Grace at the University of York, with logistical and financial support coming from the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN), a grouping of 18 universities worldwide, which has been established to help foster research collaboration. The next meeting is scheduled for Hannover, Germany in June.

For more information contact: Dr David Grace dg@ohm.york.ac.uk