The Wireless Institute, and SpectrumX — Green's line, institutionalized

2010 – TODAY

The institute: In January 2010 the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering established the Wireless Institute, to build, in the university's announcement, "upon the rich tradition in wireless communications and networks that has made Notre Dame one of the nation's leading centers of wireless research." The tradition named in that sentence reached back through the department's radio-science work to Jerome Green himself — the university drew the line from 1899 itself, the institute's announcement recording that "it was at Notre Dame that Green made the first successful wireless transmission in the United States," in the formulation the Green entry above prints at its tested size. J. Nicholas Laneman, associate professor of electrical engineering, was the founding director; Bert Hochwald joined the faculty in 2011, and the two have served as co-directors since 2016. The institute's founding program was set in the terms of the work itself — dynamic spectrum, energy-efficient and reliable wireless, secure and privacy-aware networks — and it created the university's first National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center.

SpectrumX: In September 2021 the line from the Basilica spire reached its largest form: Notre Dame was named to lead SpectrumX, the National Science Foundation's Spectrum Innovation Initiative's national center — a $25 million, five-year center joining more than forty researchers across some thirty organizations, with the Wireless Institute's Laneman as its director, to manage the nation's radio spectrum as the resource Green's generation had found empty and this one finds crowded. The through-line is the university's own and it is stated here once, at the size the record gives it: an 1899 experiment with a homemade coil, claimed at the time as the farthest message sent in the country "as far as we know," is the documented head of a research line that now holds the national center for the science the experiment began.

Sources:

1. University of Notre Dame News, 25 February 2010 — the Wireless Institute established January 2010 in the College of Engineering; J. Nicholas Laneman founding director; the institute "created Notre Dame's first NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center"; Green's 1899 transmission in the announcement.
2. University of Notre Dame, Wireless Institute — Bert Hochwald's 2011 arrival and the co-directorship from 2016.
3. University of Notre Dame / National Science Foundation, September 2021 — SpectrumX announced as the NSF Spectrum Innovation Center, $25 million over five years, led from Notre Dame.