Congratulations to @rstutsman for winning the #UofU College of Engineering Outstanding Teaching Award, and to @carboxylman (who works on #CloudLab, #PowderWireless, and other projects) for a CoE Outstanding Staff Award!

@elb I actually use scribble quite a bit, all of the #CloudLab and #PowderWireless docs are in scribble. And I use Butterick's pollen for personal website. I thought he was doing something print-focused years ago, but when I looked it seemed to be dead - I'll have to look again!

Last week, I ran a panel with @dave_andersen and Cody Cutler covering the history of the Flux Research Group at the #UofU and testbeds like #Emulab, #CloudLab, and #PowderWireless . The video is now up: https://www.youtube.com/live/LUFp6sjKbkE?feature=share&t=15360

(This is a particular timestamp in a video that covers the whole day of talks about the 50-year history of the Kahlert School of Computing and by various alumni.)

Some press for our #PowderWireless testbed

https://www.lightreading.com/6g/powder-open-for-5g-and-whatevers-next/d/d-id/782994

#5G #networking #sdr

Yesterday we took a group of folks from industry, government and the press on a tour of some of the #PowderWireless infrastructure.

This is one of five cell-like towers we own on the #UofU campus. (This one is on Wasatch Drive near the roundabout, for those familiar with the area.) These (plus one more on a building) are placed so that they cover one of our campus bus routes; the buses have end-user-type devices on them that can connect to these towers.

The cabinet at the bottom hosts a collection of software-defined radios that #wireless #research folks use to build their own customized #5G networks - or, because they are #SDR, really, anything, including #spectrum monitors, #LoRA networks, channel sounding, etc.

There is some compute available right there roadside, plus these are connected by fiber to some big datacenters nearby including #Emulab and #CloudLab.

https://powderwireless.net/dense

This week we're running Mobile Wireless Week for #PowderWireless . Pictured here, Ayaz Mahmud walks attendees through a hands-on tutorial of aspects of #5G security.

https://www.powderwireless.net/mww2023

@kstatz12 @dev @regehr Wow it's been a long time since I've been through comments on the orange site - they do have an actual plausible explanation on the cryptocurrency thing - Helium - which pays you to act as a relay for long-distance low power IoT networks.

Some of the other stuff in there is just so hilariously hacker news, like the people thinking it's Aereo, which makes less than zero sense.

Oh and we get a shout out for #PowderWireless (no it's not us, but nice guess)