California, into the world leader in smart antenna technology with 400 patents issued or pending, worldwide. Energous.com Cooper joined the board of directors from 2015 to 2019. Cooper's law Cooper found that the ability to transmit different radio communications simultaneously and in the same place has grown at the same pace since Guglielmo Marconi's first transmissions in 1895. This led Cooper to formulate the Law of Spectral Efficiency, otherwise known as Cooper's Law. The law states that the maximum number of voice conversations or equivalent data transactions that can be conducted in all of the useful radio spectrum over a given area doubles every 30 months. Publications Latest publications "The Myth of Spectrum Scarcity" Position Paper, March 2010. "Mobile WiMax – Fourth-Generation Wireless," Bechtel Communications Technical Journal, September 2007. "The Need for Simplicity," in the anthology "Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives on the Future of Behavior Change," published by Stanford University in 2007. "Personal Communications in 2025" for Eta Kappa Nu Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society, Autumn 2005. "Antennas Get Smart" in Scientific American, July 2003. "Everyone is Wrong" in Technology Review, June 2001. Awards and affiliations Mensa 1984 – IEEE Centennial Medal and Fellow 1995 – Wharton Infosys Business Transformation Award 1996 – Radio Club of America Fred Link Award and Life Fellow with the International Engineering Consortium 2000 – "Red Herring" Magazine Top Ten Entrepreneurs of 2000 2000 – RCR Wireless News Hall of Fame Inaugural Member 2002 – American Computer Museum George Stibitz Computer and Communications Pioneer Award 2002 – Wireless Systems Design Industry Leader Award 2006 – CITA Emerging Technologies Award 2007 – Wireless World Research Forum Fellow 2007 – Global Spec Great Moments Engineering Award 2008 – CE Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame Award October 2008 – Wireless History Foundation, Top U.S. Wireless Innovators of All Time. 2009 – Prince of Asturias Award for scientific and technical research. 2009 – Life Trustee, Illinois Institute of Technology 2010 – Radio Club of America, Lifetime Achievement Award October 2010 – Member, National Academy of Engineering 2011 – Inaugural Mikhail Gorbachev: The Man Who Changed the World Awards Nominee 2011 – Webby Award for Lifetime Achievement 2012 – Washington Society of Engineers, Washington Award 2013 – Charles Stark Draper Prize, National Academy of Engineering 2013 – Marconi Prize 2013 – Honorary doctorate awarded by the students and the rector of Hasselt University on the occasion of the university's