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A Roman and a Colosseum

Professor Tommaso Melodia is from Rome. He even has his very own colosseum. 

As you may know, Northeastern is home to what is arguably the world’s most powerful emulator of wireless systems and it’s called Colosseum. What a great name. Professor Melodia and his colleagues at the Institute for the Wireless Internet of Things use Colosseum to simulate massive amounts of wireless signals intersecting as a way to develop 6G and other future wireless technologies. 

Last Thursday, the FCC voted 4-0 to designate Northeastern as a Spectrum Innovation Zone, which will allow faculty experts to take this research to the next level. We announced this rare designation—one of only four in the U.S.—Thursday afternoon in News@Northeastern. 

The next day The Boston Globe followed up with its own version of the story: Northeastern wireless project gets federal designation as ‘innovation zone.’ The article quotes FCC acting chair Jessica Rosenworcel as saying, “This is a big deal. History tells us when you give innovators in the United States sandboxes to test new ideas, good things follow.”

Congrats to Professor Melodia and his colleagues for this achievement. Great media coverage doesn’t happen just because we pitch the press—we have to have good facts to work with. Grazie!

Someone working in a server room of super computers.