Sir Arthur, who also invented the idea of communications satellites, took pride in getting the physics right.
He conceived the idea of communications satellites, authored classic science-fiction novels and short stories, and co-wrote the landmark movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, described by Steven Spielberg as "the Big Bang" of his filmmaking generation.
Still, until recently, the common wisdom was that the whole idea of hollow communications fibers defied the laws of physics.
What science fiction author is credited with the idea of orbiting communications satellites?" He swats each one away with an ease that borders on disgust: Bingo, deciduous, Arthur C. Clarke.
(in 1945, while still in the service, he originated the idea of a communications satellite); he has a bachelor's degree (with First Class Honours) in physics and mathematics, and has done advanced study in astronomy; and for a spell he worked as an abstracter for a major scientific journal.
This idea influenced Fraunhofer FOKUS researcher Smirnov to propose the idea of autonomic communications in 2004 [82, 83].
Is it difficult to get people comfortable with the idea of video communications, even if it might make economic or environmental sense?
Motivated by the idea of cooperative communications, in this paper, we propose a cooperative framework in which a primary transmitter, being aware of the existence of the secondary network, may select a secondary user that is not in transmitting or receiving mode to relay its traffic.
The core idea of cooperative communications in vehicular networks is that when the channel between the base station (BS) and the destination is unreliable, another vehicle that encounters much better channel conditions than the BS is selected to forward the packets to the destination vehicle (DV) and, thus, a significant gain for the whole system is achieved.
Slack has managed to advance the idea of enterprise communications that began in the early 2000s with chat clients, advanced to Enterprise 2.0 tools like Yammer and Jive in the mid-2000s and finally evolved into modern tools like Slack we are using today in the mobile-cloud era.
For example, the details of how information is traveling – such as through a fiber-optic cable, a phone wire, or a wireless connection – are abstracted into the idea of a communications pipe at the base of the protocol stack.
