Author: Prof Yashwant Gupta

It was in 1895 that a young scientist by the name of Jagadish Chandra Bose first demonstrated that radio waves could be generated and received by man-made equipment. This was a momentous achievement, which was closely followed by the efforts of the likes of Guglielmo Marconi to harness it into practical and commercially usable devices. Thus was born the telecom revolution, without whose products we can not imagine our lives today.  In 2012, the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) — the largest body of professionals in the world, which is dedicated to the promotion of technology — decided…