This talk outlines the coming revolution of wireless communications in the 30 to 300 GHz range (the millimeter-wave spectrum), and describes recent accomplishments in circuit, antenna, and propagation research for millimeter-wave communication systems, including very recent work into millimeter-wave cellular communications that use highly directional, electrically steerable antennas. This lecture will also touch on the recent state of standards in millimeter wave wireless systems, and will describe the creation of a new type of academic research center being formed at NYU WIRELESS, that combines wireless communications research with computer science and the practice of medicine.