Two scenes from the future In one scene, a group of football fans watches the championship finals between teams A and B on a screen. It is a live broadcast. Their team A scores and a chaotic celebration is ignited. Another group of football fans, supporting team B, watches the same game through a live…

The primordial soup of academic and industrial visions on 6G is already revealing some stable shapes, likely to be featured in the next generation of wireless systems. A representative, but not exhaustive, list of this shapes starts with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques, which are going to…

Many professions take pride in stating “This is not a profession, it is a calling” and the profession of an academic is not an exception. This is largely due to a self-motivating nature of calling, where one works with a sense of purpose or a sense of a mission. …

As the research on 6G wireless systems is getting traction, one of the phrases/technologies that is creating a lot of buzz is semantic communication. For example, there is currently an special issue dedicated to semantic communication in IEEE JSAC, as well as a number of dedicated workshops and special sessions…

An Editor of a scientific journal has a significant impact on the overall process of scientific production and academic publishing. Two aspects of this important task are the careful selection of the reviewers and a reasonably short processing time. The third, extremely important aspect, is the letter by which the…

"Quitters never win, winners never quit. But those who never win and never quit are idiots." — David Brent, "The Office" * The main message in "Grit" by Angela Duckworth is that talent cannot guarantee success, but rather identifying your passion, perseverance and following through on our commitments. …

How long a concept, a technology or an idea sticks around and keeps to have an impact? The Lindy effect refers to the hypothesis that the life expectancy of non-perishable entities, such as a model or an idea, is proportional to its current age. That is, the longer an idea…

In "Artemis" by Andy Weir I have encountered a great idea (mild spoiler ahead): lower gravity can make conditions for producing an optical fiber with interesting properties, not attainable if the production takes place under the gravity of the Earth. This idea, or rather a hypothesis, is powerful not only…

This summer I had a number of discussions with teenagers and their parents about the choice of university education. Obviously, they wanted me to comment primarily on the opportunities for engineering education (something I am qualified for), rather than going to the specifics of other educations (where my comments may…