türkiye'nin sahip çıkamadığı, ıskaladığı, kovaladığı belki, olanak sunamadığı, sahip çıkamadığı, yolunu açamadığı '77'de ODTÜ'den ayrılıp CalTech'e geçen '58 doğumlu biliminsanı #ErdalArıkan'ın 5G teknolojisinin temellerini atışının ve Huawei tarafından değerlendirilişinin öyküsü
https://twitter.com/AydnSelcen/status/1329670090023985152
aynı zamanda neden kıçımızı dönüp, değerini anlamadığımız, itelediğimiz, unuttuğumuz fizik, kimya, biyoloji gibi temel bilimlerin, tarih, sosyoloji, antropoloji vb. de böyle belki, yeniden üniversitelerin merkezine alınması gerektiği üzerine düşünme fırsatı belki
makaleden alıp suretini de şuraya koyalım, zihnimize kazılı kalsın: #ErdalArıkan 
batı anadolu'dan çıkıp, MIT'e uzanan, dışarı itilmiş de olsa, cumhuriyet çocuğu #ErdalArıkan'ın yaşamöyküsünü bugünkü #BirBaşkadır Türkiye'sinin yanına koyup, "görelilik" ve "evrensellik", "ilerleme/aydınlanma" ve "multi-kulti" kavramları üzerine de düşünelim
"“The best people are in the US, but why aren't they working for 10 years, 20 years on the same problem?” he (Erdal Arıkan at Bilkent) said. “Because they wouldn't be able to get tenure; they wouldn't be able to get research funding.”
" Over the years, whenever he traveled, he would leave his unpublished manuscript in two envelopes addressed to “top colleagues whom I trusted,” with the order to mail them “if I don't come back.” In 2009 he published his definitive paper." (still at Bilkent in 2009)
"IN 1987, AROUND the time Arıkan returned to Turkey, Ren Zhengfei, a 44-year-old former military engineer, began a company that traded telecom equipment. He called it Huawei."
"Ren on how the company competed against the powerful int'l “elephants” that once dominated the field: “Huawei is no match for an elephant, so it has to adopt the qualities of wolves: a keen sense of smell, a strong competitive nature, a pack mentality, & a spirit of sacrifice.”
"The hagiographies omit some key details about how the wolf got along. They dramatically underplay the role of the Chinese government, which in the 1990s offered loans and other financial support, in addition to policies that favored Chinese telecom companies over foreign ones."
"The Chinese government also provided support to help Huawei gain a foothold overseas, offering loans to customers that made Huawei's products more appealing. "
"In 2013, Wen Tong asked Huawei's investment board for $600 million for 5G research. “Very simple,” Tong says. “20 minutes, and they decided.” The answer was yes, and a good deal of that money went into polar codes."
"Today Huawei holds more than two-thirds of the polar code patent “families”—10 times as many as its nearest competitor. The general feeling in the field, Vardy said, was that Huawei “invested a lot of research time and effort into developing this idea.”
"The companies that provide the fundamental technology for 5G will be embedded in a global communications system for years to come. So in the background are financial, nationalistic, and even geopolitical considerations. "
"Since the early 1960s, when Gallager proposed LDPC, technology had improved and the cost of commercial production was no longer prohibitive. Qualcomm's R&D team developed it for 5G." 1/2
"Though Erdal Arıkan did not know it at the time, his work would be squared off against that of his mentor in a competition that involved billions of dollars and an international clash of reputations." 2/2
"Huawei first contacted him in 2012. “We talked to each other, exchanged ideas,” Arıkan says. “This is the best mode of collaboration for me. I remain independent, and they do whatever they want.” He has personally taken no money from the telecom giant."
"I (Erdal Arıkan) have spent the last 30 years at Bilkent University doing research on a variety of problems that culminated in polar codes,”
"Polar codes is a symbol. 5G is totally different than the internet. It's like a global nervous system. Huawei is the leading company in 5G. They will be around in 10, 20, 50 years—you cannot say that about the US tech companies." 1/2
"In the internet era, the US produced a few trillion-dollar companies. Because of 5G, China will have 10 or more trillion-dollar companies. Huawei and China now have the lead.”
"For all the furor at the highest levels over whether the teen-oriented social app TikTok presented security issues, the real threat to American business was that its Chinese engineers had devised an AI-powered recommendation engine that Silicon Valley had not matched."
sonuç bağlamında bir başka düşünce/soru: başkanlık rejiminde, beştepe'den bilkent'e kaç dakikada gidilir? yürüyerek, bisikletle, otomobille... #ErdalArıkan
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