Insights

Teaching, Learning, and our Shared Responsibilities with AI

Teaching

AI

In May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published his first encyclical — a 42,000-word letter on artificial intelligence titled Magnifica Humanitas. That same month, I started preparing…

J. Nicholas Laneman

The SpaceX IPO Is a Finance Story. The Real Story Is Wireless Infrastructure.

Spectrum Policy

Satellite & Space

Wireless Technology

SpaceX went public today. The financial press will spend the next week on the valuation — $1.77 trillion, the largest IPO in US history, shares priced at $135, Elon Musk…

J. Nicholas Laneman

Own Your Thesis: Why Graduate Students Need to Stop Saying ‘The Lab Is Working On…’

Graduate School

Walk into any business meeting and watch how people introduce themselves. Name, title — and then something like: “I’m responsible for the North American product rollout” or…

J. Nicholas Laneman

Five Years of SpectrumX: What We Built and Why It Matters

Spectrum Policy

Wireless Technology

Five years ago, we collectively asked a visionary question: what would it look like if the U.S. radio spectrum ecosystem had a large academic hub — a national center — that…

J. Nicholas Laneman

Why America Needs More STEM Graduate Students — Now More Than Ever

Graduate School

(Originally published on LinkedIn.)

J. Nicholas Laneman

Managing the Radio Spectrum: The FCC, NTIA, and ITU

Wireless Technology

Spectrum Policy

(Originally published on LinkedIn.)

J. Nicholas Laneman

A Wireless Story for Notre Dame Day

Wireless Technology

Spectrum Policy

(Originally published for Notre Dame Day 2023.)

J. Nicholas Laneman