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Texas Instruments Awards $1M
Donation to Professor Alan V. Oppenheim to Advance Collaborative
Efforts in Digital Signal Processing
Cambridge, MA 01.01.2002
As part of its ongoing commitment to support innovative digital
signal processing (DSP) activities and collaborative research
at elite electrical engineering programs,
Texas Instruments (TI) has announced a three-year, $1
million donation to the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) for Professor
Alan V. Oppenheim.
Professor Oppenheim, Ford Professor of Engineering in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,
leads the
Digital Signal Processing Group of the
Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at
MIT. This gift is part of a larger donation of $3 million to members of TI's DSP Leadership University program, which includes the
Georgia Institute of Technology, Rice
University, and MIT.
The objective of TI's DSP Leadership University program is to foster
substantive collaboration among the three institutions and TI, and in
turn, to drive innovations and promote advances in signal processing technology.
TI has long been a strong supporter of research and education in universities.
In addition to the Leadership University program, TI also funds
the DSP University Program, which TI established to facilitate the inclusion of leading edge semiconductor technology into engineering research and course curricula.
Professor Oppenheim will leverage TI's generous support into a variety
of collaborative DSP-related activities and research initiatives
at MIT focused on the advancement of DSP science and technology.
"TI's DSP Leadership University program is a perfect example
of how collaborative relationships between universities and
public companies should work," said Professor Oppenheim.
"Industry researchers from TI bring tremendous expertise and
experience in digital signal processing, and add a new dimension
to the educational experience for those universities involved
in the DSP Leadership University program. At the same time,
the university environment is well suited to explore new ideas
and directions in uninhibited and unconstrained ways. MIT’s
participation allows us to pursue many new fundamental directions
for signal processing algorithms, such as our recent work
with distributed signal processing, algorithms inspired by
quantum mechanics and chaos theory, and various new approaches
to wireless communications."
The three leading DSP-focused universities were selected in
1999 as inaugural members of this program for university and
industry collaboration in research. In addition to receiving
a new donation of $1 million to support DSP educational and
research activities over three years, each institution will
benefit from TI's insight into market needs and from interaction
with each other.
"This concept is an invaluable resource to TI and one that
gives us true insight into the genius of tomorrow. Not only
do we see unique inter-university collaboration, but we have
access to leading research from the three schools and accelerated
progress in DSP development," said Mr. Torrence Robinson,
TI's DSP University Program Manager.
Texas Instruments, Incorporated is a world leader in digital
signal processing and analog technologies. The company's businesses
also include sensors and controls, and educational and productivity
solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing
or sales operations in more than 25 countries.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a coeducational,
privately endowed research university. It is dedicated to
advancing knowledge and educating students in science, technology,
and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation
and the world in the 21st century.
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