"The third major semantic web revolution is node.js, following Java and Ruby. One programmer replaced 10,000 lines of production C code with 4,000 lines of node.js, and that’s just the beginning. Bryan Cantrill of Joyent, Inc. describes a new class of applications that will further revolutionize the real time web, especially mobile. " http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail5107.html
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Bryan Cantrill | Instrumenting the real-time web: Node.js, DTrace and the Robinson Projection
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Claire Hunsaker | The African Laptop Killer: Android And The Developing World
No infrastructure, no electricity. No electricity, no cable lines. No cable lines, no coaxial Internet connection. No coaxial Internet connection, no problem, because this is how, on the continent of Africa, Android and cell phones become the solution, according to Claire Hunsaker. Her mission is to cultivate consumer market within poverty-stricken areas of Kenya by focusing on access to practical data, developing payment systems, and efficient networking utilizing Google’s Android operating system.
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Empire State: Ernest Fisk and the World Wide Wireless - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
In the 1930s and 40s, wireless ‘was what television, the internet and the iPhone, all rolled into one, are today’. Empire State tells the story of Ernest Fisk, the man who led the Australian wireless company AWA in those extraordinary decades, and was managing director of the music giant EMI in London after the war. Fisk considered wireless ‘the greatest gift of science to Australia’. Its’ possibilities were ‘as great as the future of Australia itself. His story is about a technology that helped change the world, and the great global political shifts that turned this son of the British Empire into a citizen of Australia.
Related:
DOWNLOAD:Ernest Fisk and the World Wide Wireless [pdf], Jock Given, February 2012 (http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/linkableblob/3800610/data/earnest-fisk-and-the-world-wide-wireless-data.pdf)Guests:
Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, Director, Centre for Media History, Macquarie UniversityRichard Begbie, historian, Historical Radio Society of Australia
Dr Peter Fisk, physicist, and grandson of Ernest Fisk
John Dougall, Executive Director, Amalgamated Wireless Australasia [AWA]
David Moloney, heritage consultant
Publications:
Title: Wireless and Empire: Geopolitics, Radio Industry and Ionosphere in the British Empire, 1918-1939
Author: Aitor Anduaga
Publisher: Oxford University Press 2009Further Information:
Jock Given, Professor of Media and Communications, Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Melbourne (http://www.swinburne.edu.au/lss/staff/view.php?who=jgiven&unit=isr)Research supported by CH Currey Memorial Fellowship, State Library of NSW (http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards/currey.html)
Amalgamated Wireless (Australasia), The first direct wireless messages from England to Australia [picture], 1918. 1 photograph : b&w ; 20.1 x 23.1 cm. (http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3421834)
Neville Williams, ‘When I Think Back … Ernest T. Fisk - Pioneer, visionary and entrepreneur’, first published in Electronics Australia, June-July 1989 (http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bpefisk/fh/SirErnest.htm)
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1909 was awarded jointly to Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun ‘in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy’ (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1909/)
Goot, Murray, ‘Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas (1886–1965)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fisk-sir-ernest-thomas-6177/text10617)
Ernest Fisk and the first wireless messages from the UK to Australia, State Library of NSW (http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/discover_collections/people_places/north/professionals/fisk/index.html)
Davies, L. W., ‘Hooke, Sir Lionel George Alfred (1895–1974)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hooke-sir-lionel-george-alfred-10536/text18707)
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/empire-state/3793124
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‘Most Beautiful Woman’ By Day, Inventor By Night : NPR
One of the biggest actresses of MGM’s Golden Age, also lived a quiet life as an inventor. During World War II, Hedy Lamarr invented a form of wireless communication that led to Bluetooth, GPS and more.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/27/142664182/most-beautiful-woman-by-day-inventor-by-night
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Going wireless in the bush: the revolution will be televised (Podcast)
CSIRO is developing wireless broadband technology that could operate using barely a quarter the number of transmission towers required by current systems.
Without access to a wireless broadband connection allowing the upload of information at the same rate it can be downloaded, people living beyond Australia’s planned fibre network are potentially facing a digital divide.
But now, in what could prove to be a major breakthrough for people living in rural and regional Australia, CSIRO is developing wireless broadband technology that could operate using barely a quarter of the number of transmission towers required by current systems, and provide fast up and down speeds.
CSIRO’s Ngara technology aims to bring wireless broadband access to people living in the bush by using existing broadcasting infrastructure and UHF spectrum, such as that left behind when Australian TV goes 100 per cent digital.
http://www.csiro.au/multimedia/Going-wireless-in-the-bush.html
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Wireless power transfer for your gadgets | PRI.ORG
A preview of new technologies being developed to provide power to your electronic devices without using wires.
http://www.pri.org/science/technology/wireless-power-transfer-for-gadgets1666.html
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Going wireless in the bush: the revolution will be televised (Podcast)
CSIRO is developing wireless broadband technology that could operate using barely a quarter the number of transmission towers required by current systems.
Without access to a wireless broadband connection allowing the upload of information at the same rate it can be downloaded, people living beyond Australia’s planned fibre network are potentially facing a digital divide.
But now, in what could prove to be a major breakthrough for people living in rural and regional Australia, CSIRO is developing wireless broadband technology that could operate using barely a quarter of the number of transmission towers required by current systems, and provide fast up and down speeds.
CSIRO’s Ngara technology aims to bring wireless broadband access to people living in the bush by using existing broadcasting infrastructure and UHF spectrum, such as that left behind when Australian TV goes 100 per cent digital.
http://www.csiro.au/multimedia/Going-wireless-in-the-bush.html
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The Commonwealth Club: The Next Big Thing in the Mobile World
Glenn Lurie, President, Emerging Devices Organization, AT&T Alan Rambam, President, Mobile Behavior Arun Bhikshesvaran, Senior Vice President of Multimedia and Infrastructure Solutions, Ericsson Ali Diab, Vice President of Product Management, AdMob Peter Hoddie, CEO, Kinoma Tim Attinger, Global Head of Product Development, Visa Inc. Jon Fortt, Senior Writer, Fortune - Moderator
With adoption of wireless handsets approaching 90 percent in the United States, companies are looking for new, innovative ways to connect people and their devices. What will this technology look like and what will it mean for consumers and businesses in terms of devices, network capabilities and integration? Industry experts will discuss the benefits and challenges facing companies as customers and businesses demand more content of higher quality and speed wherever they are and on any device.
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The “Internet” of the developing world: using GSM networks to secure information
Ashifi Gogo, a Schweitzer Fellow at Dartmouth College, discusses mobile communications in the developing world - system architectures that provide levels of security analogous to well-known standards for internet transactions, and innovations in use of mobile networks for public services.
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Webvisions: Going Fast on the Slow Mobile Web
Webvisions 2008 Going Fast on the Slow Mobile Web Speaker: Jason Grigsby
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