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data feed from house automation system to twitter - good example of using other peoples notification systems to get your data "out there" - i think there is a how to in Make Feb 2008
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helping ensure that as nanotechnologies advance, possible risks are minimized, public and consumer engagement remains strong + the potential of these new technologies are realized. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars / Pew Charitable Trusts
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WASHINGTON - The Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies and National Science Foundation will host the Washington, DC, premiere event for the television series “Nanotechnology: The Power of Small”
April 2008 Archives
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We drew on a simple insight that in the not too distant future humanity will have extracted and worked much of the valuable minerals once buried in planet Earth. We will be compelled to reuse and celebrate what is essentially “above ground”.
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Reducing energy usage, an office case study by Dave Farebrother FEI Environmental Director - pdf of slides from energy institute presentation. A case study from an office in London, UK
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Buildings 2.0 a grand vision of the future of internet-centric buildings. Following two years of industry roundtables, in 2008 BuilConn will host an industry discussion on the subject of green energy, sustainability, and the role that Buildings 2.0
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Interactive institute's Design Research Unit is happy to announce that funding has been granted from STEM (Energimyndigheten/The Swedish Energy Agency) to launch the project 'SWITCH! Energy Ecologies in Everyday Life'....
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Reading local energy consumption on the cloud. The kW values shows the actual level on consumption in Ruoholahti & Lauttasaari. The % value shows the percentage of 41,000kW, which is the estimated peak consumption for the last week of February 2008.
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The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) - UN statistical databases through a single entry point. Users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of the UN system.
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Data visualization, the art of using visual thinking to understand complex information, is a growing trend--but it also has an illustrious history.
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senZations'08 summer school will be held in Serbia this summer.The school will be supported by the EU funded FP7 Prosense project
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Oct 29-31, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. Techniques, algorithms, architectures, protocols, and user aspects, underlying context-aware smart surroundings, and cooperating intelligent objects, and their applications to provide context-aware smart assistance.
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In the context of convergence, the 17th ICT Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit will address the challenges of Future Ubiquitous Networks based on mobile and wireless communications, complemented with fixed infrastructures. (SENSEI have booth here)
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The 2009-10 Programme for ICT research in EU's FP7 will be presented in detail. Other sources of EU research funding for ICT will also be examined (JTIs CIP) representing more than €2 billion in EU support for ICT research over the next two years.
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The first Future Internet Symposium will take place 28-30 September 2008 in Vienna, Austria. The programme will be international in scope, and focused on research, especially that which crosses the traditional boundaries of our field.
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SENSEI (Integrating the Physical with the Digital World of the Network of the Future) is an Integrated Project in the EU's FP7, in the ICT Challenge 1: Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures: ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future.
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a collection of links to telco futures via Olivier in Sensei project. Interesting movie from Nokia on nantechnology from their Cambridge Labs - aim is to tell the rest of Nokia and the outside world what their R&D labs are doing
We have been working with Tinker.it here in London in organising a few workshops around Arduino. The first is on Interactive Lighting and will involve a mix of presentations on current state of the art and building some simple protoypes. Guest talks include our own Francesco Anselmo, Massimo Banzi from Tinker.it and Daniel Hirschmann from Jason Bruges Studio. The giveaway swag to all attendees include a DMX controller and a DMX shield for Arduino.
For more info and to book a space jump to the workshop web page. This workshop is at Arup in London on Sat/Sun 10/11th May.
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Swedish industrial company decided to outsource the energy management to a specialist firm, setting the straightforward goals: “Room temperature should be adjusted to a suitable and verified living climate, and what is not needed should be shut off.”
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A Flex data visualisation for a WSN trial held at Arup over the summer of 2007.
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The Doing Business project... provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 178 countries and selected cities at the subnational and regional level. (via Alice Clarke)
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The calculation requires daily measurements of maximum and minimum outside air temperatures and a 'base temperature' Tbase, nominated by the user as an estimate of the outside air temperature at which no artificial heating (or cooling) is required.
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*The virtual-water content of a product (a commodity, good or service) is the volume of freshwater used to produce the product, measured at the place where the product was actually produced* - useful for other representations of water usage
