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Bits: Can the Wireless Industry Handle Hip?
By Laura M. Holson Published: April 7, 2008
Almost everyone at the CTIA conference last week seemed to be musing about how mainstream the wireless industry was becoming. | Galileo legal process ticks over
Giove-B flies at the end of the month
The next and vital step has been taken by Europe in its quest to set up the Galileo satellite-navigation system.
EU transport ministers have approved the so-called Galileo Implementation Regulation.
This is the legal instrument that releases the 3.4bn euros agreed by finance ministers in 2007 to fund construction of the space-based system.
It means contracts can soon be awarded to establish ground stations, to build spacecraft, and provide launchers.
Competition for those contracts should be closed by December, initiating work that ensures Galileo is up and running by the end of 2013. | Dutch Polymer Institute
DPI is a public-private partnership funded by industry, universities and government set up to perform exploratory research in the area of polymer materials. DPI operates at the interface of universities and industry, linking the scientific skills of university research groups to industrial need for innovation. DPI performs pre-competitive research projects to add value to the scientific community through scientific publications and to the industrial community through the creation of intellectual property. DPI provides an unique platform for new technology awareness in which participating industrial companies, commercially competitors in the market place, communicate on a pre-competitive basis to trigger innovation. | | It’s thumbs up to new way of changing TV channels - 17 Jul 2007 | Bernie Goldie
The days of scrounging around sofas searching for hand-held remotes will soon be over thanks to a ‘wave of the hand’ technology developed at the University of Wollongong.
The all-seeing wave controller is the brainchild of Australian scientists Dr Prashan Premaratne of UOW’s School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering and Australian National University PhD student, Quang Nguyen. Quang was earlier an undergraduate student working with Dr Premaratne at UOW.
Story of the technological research broke overseas this week while Dr Premaratne was on study leave. He has just returned to Wollongong.
His test results were published in the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Computer Vision Research Journal and then initially carried in the UK’s Daily Mail.
Dr Premaratne and Quang Nguyen have developed a box that lets television viewers change channels, switch on the DVD player or simply switch off an irritating presenter or program with the wave of a hand.
The controller’s built-in camera can recognise seven simple hand gestures and work with up to eight different gadgets around the home.
Dr Premaratne said he believed the device could be on sale within three years. | An X PRIZE is a multi-million dollar award given to the first team to achieve a specific goal, set by the X PRIZE Foundation, which has the potential to benefit humanity. Rather than awarding money to honor past achievements or directly funding research, an X PRIZE incites innovation by tapping into our competitive and entrepreneurial spirits.
X PRIZE competitions capture the imagination of the public and speed radical breakthroughs that can ultimately change the way we see ourselves and how we live on this planet. Stay tuned as the X PRIZE Foundation unveils new X PRIZEs to spark revolutions in the space, medicine, energy, automotive, education, environmental, and social arenas. | Artificial Intelligence Is Lost in the Woods
A conscious mind will never be built out of software, argues a Yale University professor.
Artificial intelligence has been obsessed with several questions from the start: Can we build a mind out of software? If not, why not? If so, what kind of mind are we talking about? A conscious mind? Or an unconscious intelligence that seems to think but experiences nothing and has no inner mental life? These questions are central to our view of computers and how far they can go, of computation and its ultimate meaning--and of the mind and how it works. | Battelle is a global science and technology enterprise that develops and commercializes technology and manages laboratories for customers. Headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, Battelle has a vast science and technology reach. Battelle, with the national labs it manages or co-manages, oversees 19,000 staff members and conducts $3.7 billion in annual research and development. Battelle provides solutions and develops innovative products, helping commercial customers leverage technology into a competitive advantage. We also team with more than 800 federal, state and local government agencies, providing cost-effective science and technology in the areas of national security, homeland defense, health and life sciences, energy, transportation and environment. | EcoTrends Construction Supplies was formed to take advantage of existing technology for the construction industry. By doing so, we have found that there are many products on the market now that are ecologically friendly and energy efficient. These products can save up to 30-50% in monthly energy costs and still be competitive with other construction methods. | The Advanced Technology Demonstration Network (ATDnet) is a high performance networking testbed in the Washington D.C. area. It is intended to be representative of possible future Metropolitan Area Networks. Established by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to enable collaboration among Defense and other Federal agencies, ATDnet has a primary goal to serve as an experimental platform for diverse network research and demonstration initiatives. Emphasis is on early deployment of emerging Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) technologies. | | | | | | | | | |
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