Along with a host of inventions, the engineer also formulated – and lent his name to – a mathematical law that captures the inexorable progress of our communications.
Recent advances in linear and nonlinear optimization facilitate progress in many areas of communications.
A steering committee composed of investigators, "on-site" co-investigators and administrators has been created and will be responsible for the planning and progress of the study, coordinating communications and maintaining interactions with the practice setting as well as integrating the research findings.
Privatization has made progress, particularly in the vital area of communications.
Inventors, however, are able to track the progress of their applications through a secure communications link.
"In war, which is what this is, if you could monitor the progress of both sides by monitoring all communications that are going on on both sides -- from the smallest military unit up to the supreme commander -- you'd have a very good picture of the different tactics that are being employed," Dr. Young said.
"Particularly in the second half of the year and in the holiday season, there were signs that smartphones and tablets in particular had made much more progress than people had previously thought we would," said Clark Fredricksen, vice president of communications at eMarketer.
Speaking as he and his wife, Melinda, publish the seventh annual state-of-the-world letter from their eponymous foundation, Gates said recent progress in communications technology had been hugely encouraging.
A centralized decision-making process and lack of delegated authority to field personnel often hindered progress and communications at critical emergency response and recovery stages.
And the melding of communications and computing brings together two industries and engineering cultures that are generally at odds, slowing progress.
