Silicon Harlem with COSMOS is bringing over 20 Million to Harlem

Thanks from Clayton Banks of @SiliconHarlem and Daniel Kilper @ASUResearch part of the #NSFfunded #PAWRCOSMOS team! Credit: NSF pic.twitter.com/zx649FERYJ

— NSF Comp & Info (@NSF_CISE) April 11, 2018

Fourth generation wireless, better known as 4G, turned mobile phones into movie-streaming platforms, but the next wireless revolution promises more than speedy downloads. It could pave the way for surgeons operating remotely on patients, cars that rarely crash, and events that can be vividly experienced from thousands of miles away.

To realize this vision of the future, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and an industry consortium are investing $100 million in the next seven years to build a set of wireless networks for U.S. researchers to test new ways of boosting Internet speeds to support data-intensive applications in robotics, immersive virtual reality and traffic safety. New York and Salt Lake City are the first cities to receive funding under the NSF Platforms for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) initiative, with New York set to receive $22.5 million.

Led by researchers at Rutgers, Columbia and NYU, and in partnership with New York City, Silicon Harlem, City College of New York and University of Arizona, the platform in New York, called COSMOS, will be a proving ground for a new generation of wireless technologies and applications. The COSMOS testbed will cover one square mile in West Harlem, with City College to the north, Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus to…..continued on

http://engineering.nyu.edu/press-releases/2018/04/09/nsf-announces-new-york-city-testbed-new-wave-mobile-technology