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Hello and welcome. I'm your host Peter Balland from Technicon, and today we look at the Epic project for the first time.

Like many other current technology projects, Epic is here to ensure that the things that work great now will also work great in the future.

In the case of Epic, the focus

is on error correction in data transfer. When we reach beyond 5G data communication speeds,

the forward error correction codes or effect that we use today will no longer work. This would

cause unacceptable data loss and slowdowns.

Epic is a research project to examine standardization for future communication systems

utilizing super-fast transfer rates.

Today we welcome three guests, all working at IMT Atlantic in Brest, France, and all partners in the Epic project.

We welcome Katrin Duhya, who is a professor in the electronics department.

She's devoted a good part of her research interest to forward error correction codes.

She's also in charge of the interaction between algorithms and silicone, or IAS, research team.

We also speak with Stefan Weidhofer.

He is an associate professor with the electronics department at IMT Atlantic since September

of last year.

His research focus is centered around the joint considerations of algorithms and hardware

implementation targeting area and efficient ASIC solutions for baseband signal processing.

And finally, we welcome Charbel Abdel Nuh.

He is an associate professor at IMT Atlantic since 2011, and he's been working on Epic since the project kicked off in 2017.

Because of the coronavirus situation, we reached everyone remotely from their home offices.

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