Whiteboards!

  
With roughly 200 engineers, many of them PhDs, a lot of the day-to-day conversation around InterDigital is, well, pretty unintelligible to the lay person. We’re actually quite proud of that: the daily sight of engineers working as teams to solve extremely complex challenges is an ongoing reminder of our mission to lead wireless innovation. The end result is the conference abstracts, technology demos, project successes, partnerships and – ultimately – the patents that higlight our technology contributions. The day-to-day result is the whiteboards you see around our R&D centers… that often leave our non-engineers scratching their heads.

Oghenekome Oteri, Senior Staff Engineer: “We’re writing a program to simulate a network to be able to better model interference. Rather than model the entire network, we’re creating a wraparound model that replicates infinitely.”