Whether the task is seeing the world, sensing the world, or communicating in the world, research that previously focused on either visible light or radio waves is increasingly converging, as researchers utilize similar—or in some cases identical—techniques. This convergence has accelerated in recent years as radio communication moves into ever-higher frequencies. The push of convergence of thinking as well as the pull of applications leveraging radio and light spans the departments of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering and highlights a clear and pressing need for a dialog between our two research communities.
