<div dir="ltr"><table width="990" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tbody><tr><td width="610" valign="top"><table width="610" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2"><div id="gmail-story"><h1 style="font-size:16pt"><img src="cid:ii_15fbabdbe8b3c370" alt="Imagem intercalada 1" width="380" height="507" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br></h1><h1 style="font-size:16pt">SDR pioneer Dr. Vanu Gopal Bose dies at 52</h1><p>Software Defined Radio pioneer <strong>Dr. Vanu Gopal Bose</strong> passed away on November 11, 2017 aged 52 <br><br>In 1998 he founded <strong>Vanu Inc.</strong> which pioneered the commercialization of software-defined radio and was the first company to receive FCC certification of a software-defined radio in 2004.<br><br>The firm’s technology, which grew out of Bose&#39;s graduate research at MIT, increases the role of software in operating the radio-based component of wireless communications networks, including those used for cellphone communications.<br><br>His company had recently deployed over 40 Community Connect base stations in Puerto Rico to provide cellular service in the wake of two devastating hurricanes.<br><br>Read the Boston Globe story <br><a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/12/vanu-bose-pioneer-cellular-wireless-infrastructure-dies/mK9MjcOEiuPIOovhCGUHFJ/story.html" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/11/12/vanu-bose-pioneer-cellular-wireless-infrastructure-dies/mK9MjcOEiuPIOovhCGUHFJ/story.html</a><br><br>&quot;Virtual Radios&quot; by Vanu Gopal Bose, et al 1998. One of the original MIT SpectrumWare papers<br><a href="https://archive.org/download/VirtualRadios/VirtualRadios-VanuBose.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://archive.org/download/VirtualRadios/VirtualRadios-VanuBose.pdf</a><br><br>2003 Guardian newspaper article Radio active revolution <br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jul/10/onlinesupplement2" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2003/jul/10/onlinesupplement2</a><br><br>Connecting the last billion <br><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609009/connecting-the-last-billion/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,51,102);text-decoration-line:none">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609009/connecting-the-last-billion/</a></p></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td width="495"><br></td><td width="115"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><ins id="gmail-aswift_0_expand" style="display:inline-table;border:none;height:60px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:468px;background-color:transparent"><ins id="gmail-aswift_0_anchor" style="display:block;border:none;height:60px;margin:0px;padding:0px;width:468px;background-color:transparent"></ins></ins></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div>