ERC Key Features Sample Clauses

ERC Key Features a. Vision of the ERC: Thus the vision of the Smart Lighting ERC is to enable the “Synthesis of Light for the Benefit of Humanity” by creating an immersive lighting environment that is vastly superior to that achievable with incandescent light bulbs and fluorescent tubes. The Smart Lighting ERC uniquely positioned itself as the leader of the “Second Wave” of the solid state lighting industry. SLERC refers to the “First Wave”, in xxxxxx’x terms, as the research, technology development, and deployment around such relatively common place devices as light emitting diode (LED) lighting fixtures and solid state liquid crystal displays. In contrast, the “Second Wave” is a new frontier that recognizes and leverages the fact that photons generate a tremendous amount of information that, if harvested and properly utilized, can provide significant value. The Center’s research plan and industrial partners program is built around the research and engineering opportunities that the ERC will attack in this “Second Wave.” b. ERC's Strategic Goals: The goal of the Smart Lighting ERC is to develop the scientific foundation and knowledge base for smart lighting sources, sensors, and control electronics, and incorporate them into exemplary system testbed demonstrations of the technology to advance smart lighting functionality. The ERC's integration of education, research, technology transfer, and innovation activities will be aimed at ensuring U.S. global leadership in smart lighting for years to come. The Smart Lighting Center will use the ERC Program's 3-plane strategic planning chart to display its strategic goals and the integration of its research program, accompanied by a milestone chart depicting the major deliverables through time and their interdependencies. The ERC will have a plan for partnering with small firms, as a subcontractor, to engage in translational research to speed innovation and technology transfer, when the members of the Industrial Advisory Board do not license ERC-generated Intellectual Property. c. ERC's Research Program:

ERC Key Features a. Vision of the ERC: The CIAN vision is to create transformative technologies for optical access networks where virtually any application can be seamlessly and efficiently aggregated and interfaced with existing and future long-haul core networks in a cost effective manner. This research will enable affordable and highly flexible access to any type of services, including delivery of single user data rates approaching 10 Gigabits/sec, to a broad population base anywhere and at anytime. b. ERC's Strategic Goals: The CIAN ERC will use the ERC Program's 3-plane strategic planning chart to display its strategic goals and the integration of its research program, accompanied by a milestone chart depicting the major deliverables through time and their interdependencies. CIAN's strategic goals are in conducting transformative fundamental and systems-level research that will: (i) transform expensive discrete components based subsystems into flexible cost-effective integrated optoelectronic subsystems to achieve scalable and affordable high data rate access networks that are transparent to the core; and (ii) demonstrate flexible network functionalities that provide transparency and scalability by moving services from the higher layers of the network closer to the physical layer. The driving force for the ERC is the development of an intelligent network that seamlessly adapts to the growing needs and diverse services of the internet, thereby contributing to the economy and society as a whole.