A very active audience!

Our lecture on the Internet Of Things, and Spime Design Workshop at the Singularity University went very well. The lecture was among the few open to the public, and give that it was held before the security gates at NASA Ames Research Center, people didn’t hesitate to sign up and come to attend, learning about [...]

Speaking at CISCO Live! about sensor networks

Today at 2.45 PM PST we will be speaking at CISCO Live! about sensor networks, and their applications together with Adam Dunkels, and Jean Philippe Vasseur.
Some of the issues that we plan to touch, in the panel session moderated by John Jainschigg are:

What are sensor networks and what are they used for?
What is their state [...]

Great success at the Spime Design Workshop with CISCO

The Spime Design Workshop hosted at CISCO that we together organized has been a great success, and has been amply reported and documented by Dennis Mancini of CISCO on the Virtual Worlds blog. Dennis very perceptively says: “…the implied given opportunities that present themselves in the near future remain dependant upon your organizations willingness to [...]

Technology: you can fear it, or you can fix it!

The impact of technological change in our lives has increased at a rate that itself is increasing. Two three hundred years ago you could live your life without experiencing any change at all: its pace was so slow that within a generation it could not be felt, or at least would not be felt everywhere. [...]

Recent and future events: Mobile Monday, ID World, and Fifi

There are more and more events that include tracks, and coverage of the Internet Of Things, in its several variants. At Mobile Monday Amsterdam, held recently, Bruce Sterling summarized his impressions on how the field is developing, and ‘preached the gospel’ of the Internet Of Things from an unusual podium:

Image by Mobile Monday Amsterdam

You will [...]

Tagging Reality: scalable semantic understanding of the world

The way we interpret reality uses the tools, and the knowledge available at a given moment, in order to maximize our benefit, and probability of survival. A lot of knowledge, arguably all knowledge is already encoded in reality, but most of the time we are loath carrying out the experiments that are necessary to [...]

Presenting at TechGarage ‘08

Tomorrow we will be presenting OpenSpime at TechGarage ‘08. TechGarage enables startups to meet with potential investors, in an energetic and interactive environment, where the exchange of ideas is encouraged. We are glad to have been chosen to be one of the presenters there.

OpenSpime meets Al Gore

Public debate through presentations of scientific information, and the data collected from distributed open sensor networks complements the policy making process. OpenSpime met Al Gore at the launch of Current TV in Italy, and we asked him about how the community of Current can help evolving, and accelerating the enactment of legislation that implements the [...]

Follow our DrinkLink in live streaming

If you cannot make it this evening (on CET… it will be in the morning of today on PST), then you can follow us streaming live on the OpenSpime channel on Mogulus. Right now we are transmitting a compilation of a series of OpenSpime videos, and live transmissions will start at 8PM CET (11AM PST). [...]

OpenSpime Drink-Link: come and play @Bastard.it!

Do you want to experiment with spimes, have a first look at the preliminary OpenSpime architecture? Are you a hardware hacker, a maker, a mashup-wizard? Want to play with spimified Arduinos, SunSpots, iPhones, and more?
Than come to Bastard.it for the OpenSpime Drink-Link!
When: Wednesday, April 9, starting at 6.30 PM.
Where: Via Slapater 19, Milan, Italy
In a [...]