Having received the 2nd Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, engineer and mathematician Thomas Kailath reviews his fundamental contributions to systems theory, signal processing, and digital communications in this interview. Kailath explains how his advances in efficient algorithms, optimal control, and estimation methods have influenced areas as diverse as data transmission, advanced sensing, and circuit design. Throughout the conversation, he highlights the role of applied mathematics as a driver of technological innovation and underscores the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration for solving complex problems in an increasingly connected world.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category goes in this second edition to engineer and mathematician Thomas Kailath, as author of
Having received the 2nd Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communication Technologies, engineer and mathematician Thomas Kailath reviews his fundamental contributions to systems theory, signal processing, and digital communications in this interview. Kailath explains how his advances in efficient algorithms, optimal control, and estimation methods have influenced areas as diverse as data transmission, advanced sensing, and circuit design. Throughout the conversation, he highlights the role of applied mathematics as a driver of technological innovation and underscores the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration for solving complex problems in an increasingly connected world.
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Information and Communication Technologies category goes in this second edition to engineer and mathematician Thomas Kailath, as author of a mathematical development enabling the production of increasingly small size chips, at a time when the limits of chip miniaturization seemed both close and insurmountable.
00:00 Introduction
00:15 What does receiving this award mean to you?
05:23 Your research has gone from the mathematical framework of each topic to its final application. How were you able to achieve this?
06:58 You have experienced the evolution of the computer industry from the inside of computers. Did you expect computers to become such a ubiquitous and indispensable element in daily life as they are today?
08:48 How did you feel when you figured out how to make chips smaller using optical light?
10:43 What will computers be like in the future, say in 25 years?
