THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC.
COMMUNICATIONS & VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY SOCIETIES
2018 TECHNICAL LUNCHEON PROGRAM

Technical Presentation: 

Title:                Can Spiral Modulation Technologies Beat Shannon’s Law?

Speaker:          David Shaw, CCO and Co-founder, Astrapi Corporation

Download:       Astrapi Presentation

DATE: Tuesday 20 March 2018

TIME: Luncheon starts at 11:30 a.m.
Main Presentation is from 12:00-1:00p.m.

**MEETING LOCATION**
Cafe Max
1600 Alma Road Richardson, TX 75081
Additional parking behind restaurant.

COST: Lunch
Students and IEEE Life Members: $5
IEEE Members: $10
Non-Members: $15

Please RSVP to: Cheri Dickey

Abstract:

Astrapi Corporation was organized to address the communication bandwidth crisis to commercialize their patented spiral modulation technologies. In the late 1940’s, Dr. Claude Shannon published seminal papers that established the capacity of communication channels. Dr. Shannon’s proof used a Fourier transform, which constructs a signal from sinusoids with constant amplitude and thereby implicitly assumes that the spectrum is  stationary.  Spiral modulation does not make this constant amplitude assumption and therefore enables channel capacity improvements beyond Shannon’s law.  Astrapi is executing an Intellectual Property (IP) licensing model. David Shaw will present an overview of Astrapi’s technology, business model, roadmap and application focuses. In addition, David will present use cases that address satellite, terrestrial (cellular) wireless, backhaul, IoT and defense.

BIO:

David Shaw is the Co-founder and Chief Commercialization Officer of Astrapi Corporation. David provides early-stage technology commercialization expertise and led Astrapi efforts to win the Grand Prize at the SATELLITE 2917 Startup Space Pitch competition and  being named a “Most Promising Startup” at FinSpace, the Satellite Finance Summit in Paris. David served as Astrapi’s National Science Foundation (NSF)  I-Corp lead, helped win two NSF SBIR R&D  grants, and has been a NSF panel reviewer for over one-hundred proposals. David has over thirty years of experience with technology product development, capital formation and company operations. David has a BBA in Finance and a MS in Technology Commercialization from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin.