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- Using wireless networks to avoid car crashesToday
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European researchers are working on a project named I-WAY, an acronym for ‘Intelligent co-operative system in cars for road safety.’ The goal of this project is to develop new automotive safety systems that will alert drivers to potential hazards by using data obtained from in-vehicle sensing systems, the road infrastructure and other road users. With this system, drivers will receive warnings and alerts for weather conditions, traffic jams or accidents, so that they could avoid crashes. The I-WAY project started in February 2006 and should be completed in January 2009 for a total cost of 4.59 million euro, with a EU funding of 2.6 million euro. But read more…
- New MacArthur study lauds teenage time spent onlineYesterday
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A front page New York Times online report brings the news that “Teenager’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing”. The Times story calls it good news for worried parents:
“It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it’s on MySpace or sending instant messages,” said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study, “Living and Learning With New Media.” “But their participation is giving them the technological skills and literacy they need to succeed in the contemporary world. They’re learning how to get along with others, how to manage a public identity, how to create a home page.”
The announcement from MacArthur begins:
Results from the most extensive U.S. study on teens and their use of digital media show that America’s youth are developing important social and technical skills online – often in ways adults do not understand or value.
“It might surprise parents to learn that it is not a waste of time for their teens to hang out online,” said Mizuko Ito, University of California, Irvine researcher and the report’s lead author. “There are myths about kids spending time online
- College concedes email to the cloudNovember 19
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The Wired Campus reports today that “Boston College Will Stop Offering New Students E-Mail Accounts.” All the incoming students may not have cloud-like email such as gmail, but that may be a major factor in this trend:
Many students don’t even want a college e-mail address these days because they already have well-established digital identities before they arrive on campus. That’s the conclusion that officials at Boston College came to in a recent review of their online services. So the college recently decided to stop offering full e-mail accounts to incoming students starting next fall.
Instead of a standard college e-mail account, next year’s freshmen will be offered an e-mail-forwarding service that will pass along messages to whatever personal e-mail account a student specifies . . .
- Wireless Innovation ChallengeNovember 19
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Set aside any preconceptions of why businesses engage in corporate responsibility schemes, It is not often an opportunity arises to get funding to help improve the world through the very technologies and services which “SmartMobs” examines and challenges.
Katrin Verclas of MobileActive has brought to our attention that the Vodafone Americas Foundation is launching a Wireless Innovation Challenge. This Challenge seeks to: “identify and fund the best innovations using wireless related
technology to address critical social issues around the world.”I encourage you to take the time to visit the Wireless Innovation Challenge website and let your mind go wild with what you would do if you were to submit a porposal.
Innovation | Vodafone Americas Foundation
“Projects must demonstrate a multi-disciplinary approach that uses an innovation in wireless related technology to address a critical global issue in one or more of the following areas: access to communication, education, economic development, environment, or health. The technology should have the potential for replication and large scale impact”
- Future of Technologies Conference: Leicester, UK, Nov 20November 17
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I’m planning to participate in the Future of Technologies Conference in Leicester this Thursday, organized by my friends at De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technologies. Leicester itself has been undergoing interesting changes, from a classically industrial textile-based economy to a knowledge-based economy, from an entirely white city to a multiethnic population with no racial majority. Linz undertook a similar change from a steel center to a digital arts center, although the ethnic changes are not parallel. Linz and local media companies were smart enough to support Ars Electronica. I hope The Future of Technologies conference will be followed by others in which IOCT and the city work together to bring minds together with new ideas — something every industrial culture needs to do as it transitions to more networked, technology-enabled, knowledge-intensive economic base.