PFI: Cognitive Signal Processing

这个创新合作伙伴关系（PFI）项目合作伙伴达特茅斯学院的研究人员和学生与小企业在研究和研究翻译的新机制和相关的计算平台，低功耗，高吞吐量的信号处理，将转化为新的技术和产品的感官增强和移动的传感器系统。 该项目的智力价值来自于其专注于研究和翻译的神经元系统的新信号处理机制，低功耗模拟和混合信号设备，以及随后的使用和重用这些机制在应用中，需要低功耗和高吞吐量。 示例应用包括通过感测单光子并将信号处理功能移动到传感器附近来大幅提高图像质量的新成像设备;用于在嘈杂环境中集中收听的听觉设备;用于生物医学监测和增强生物力学性能的身体穿戴设备（例如，在运动员、残疾人或老年人中）;机器和结构的远程无线监控（例如，风力涡轮机、飞机、桥梁）;以及无线传感器网络。 这项研究的更广泛的影响是加强博士学位。在这方面，需要强调的是：通过提高教育水平，包括创业和创建新企业方面的培训;通过扩大产品市场，对知识增强合作伙伴产生经济影响;通过提高吸引和雇用技术人员的知名度，对区域小型技术公司产生影响。 这项工作建立在达特茅斯学院塞耶工程学院学术课程创新的坚实基础上。 塞耶学校提供全国第一个博士级工程创新计划，旨在提供博士学位。受过创业培训的毕业生需要将研究发现转化为可销售的技术。 赠款资金由内部奖学金资金杠杆，为这些学生提供了一个为期五年的机会，与合作伙伴合作研究，研究翻译，并从PFI活动产生的技术开发。 与支持区域经济发展的当地非政府组织开展的活动侧重于项目、宣传材料和网站，以吸引和留住新罕布什尔州和佛蒙特州的智力资本，并吸引新的小型技术公司到该地区，从而促进康涅狄格河两岸的经济发展。该项目开始时的合作伙伴包括知识增强伙伴关系（KEP）单位，由达特茅斯学院塞耶工程学院和五个小企业组成：Forza Silicon（加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳），MicroStrain，Inc.（Williston，VT），Neuromorfix，Inc.（Atlanta，GA）、Simbex，LLC.（黎巴嫩，NH），Sound Innovations Inc.（白河交汇处，VT）。 此外，还有其他合作伙伴。 这些伙伴包括一家大公司：Maxim Integrated Products（加利福尼亚州桑尼维尔）和两个当地非营利非政府组织：格拉夫顿县经济发展理事会和绿色山区经济发展公司。

This Partnerships for Innovations (PFI) project partners Dartmouth College investigators and students with small businesses in the research and research translation of novel mechanisms and associated computational platforms for low power, high throughput signal processing that will translate to new technologies and products for sensory enhancement and for mobile sensor systems. The intellectual merit of this project derives from its focus on research and translation of the novel signal processing mechanisms of neuronal systems to low power analog and mixed-signal devices and the subsequent use and reuse of these mechanisms across applications that demand low power and high throughput. Example applications include a new imaging device that substantially improves image quality by sensing single photons and moving signal processing functions close to the sensor; an auditory device for focused listening in noisy environments; body-worn devices for biomedical monitoring and enhancing biomechanics performance (e.g., in athletes, disabled, or elderly people); remote, wireless monitoring of machines and structures (e.g., wind turbines, aircraft, bridges); and wireless sensor networks. The broader impacts of this research are the strengthening of Ph.D. level education to include training in entrepreneurship and new venture creation; the economic impact on Knowledge Enhancement Partners (KEPs) associated with broadening markets for their products; and an impact on regional small technology companies through increased visibility in attracting and hiring technical staff. The effort builds on a strong foundation in innovation within the academic programs of the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. Thayer School offers the nation's first doctoral-level Engineering Innovation Program designed to provide Ph.D. graduates with the entrepreneurial training needed to turn research discoveries into marketable technologies. Grant funds are leveraged by internal fellowship funding, providing these students with a five-year opportunity for collaborative research with partners, for research translation, and for technology development stemming from PFI activities. Activities with local non-governmental organizations that support regional economic development focus on programs, promotional materials, and websites to attract and retain intellectual capital within New Hampshire and Vermont and to attract new small technology companies to the region, thereby promoting economic development on both sides of the Connecticut River. Partners at the inception of the project include the Knowledge Enhancement Partnership (KEP) unit, consisting of Dartmouth College's Thayer School of Engineering and five small businesses: Forza Silicon (Pasadena, CA), MicroStrain, Inc. (Williston, VT), Neuromorfix, Inc. (Atlanta, GA), Simbex, LLC. (Lebanon, NH), Sound Innovations Inc. (White River Junction, VT). In addition, there are other partners. These partners include a large corporation: Maxim Integrated Products (Sunnyvale, CA) and two local non-profit, non-governmental organizations: Grafton County Economic Development Council (NH) and Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation (VT).