Podcast: The magic of Software Defined Radio with Ben Hilburn
Hanselminutes is a weekly podcast that aims to promote fresh technology and fresh voices to software developers. Last Friday they interviewed Ben Hilburn who is the project lead and president of the GNU Radio Foundation and Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc who are working on combining deep learning with the signal processing. In the podcast Ben talks briefly about a broad range of topics like spectrum scarcity issues, different SDR hardware, basic SDR fundamental concepts, multipath, GPS, RF security, analogue vs digital and more. It is aimed at technical people who know little about SDR and radio.
EPISODE SUMMARY
Ben Hilburn is the Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc., which is commercializing the fundamental research behind deep learning applied to wireless communications and signal processing. He also runs GNU Radio, the most widely used open-source signal processing toolkit in the world, serving as Project Lead and President of The GNU Radio Foundation. Ben talks to Scott about why Software Defined Radio is magical and they talk about how SDR can be used to teach STEM and solve interesting engineering problems.
EPISODE NOTES
Ben Hilburn is the Director of Engineering at DeepSig Inc., which is commercializing the fundamental research behind deep learning applied to wireless communications and signal processing. He also runs GNU Radio, the most widely used open-source signal processing toolkit in the world, serving as Project Lead and President of The GNU Radio Foundation. Ben talks to Scott about why Software Defined Radio is magical and they talk about how SDR can be used to teach STEM and solve interesting engineering problems.
