April 9, 2008
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James Surowiecki’s The Wisdom of Crowds proves useful in understanding the impact (both positive and negative) regarding knowledge of isolated individuals vs. collective intelligence that shapes business, economies, societies and nations. Surowiecki opens the book with a great example of … Continue reading
April 4, 2008
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WiscNet‘s 2008 Future Technologies Conference at Monona Terrace will feature two keynotes regarding Internet2. Tuesday May 13th Doug Van Houweling, President of Internet2 will keynote the first day of the conference. Joel Mambretti, Director of the International Center for Advanced … Continue reading
March 11, 2008
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Verizon’s Business unit joined Internet2 last year and has been working on upgrading their network services unit by scaling their 40GB network to a full 100GB. Scheduled for 2009, their first hops will be in Chicago, New York and Washington … Continue reading
March 9, 2008
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Internet2′s EDIT consortium and Educause have been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for the ongoing development work on middleware technologies. Today more and more organizations need to verify and manage user identity and access. Middleware solutions that … Continue reading
March 5, 2008
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Yesterday ComputerWorldUK posted Open source in schools could save the taxpayer billions about the growing impact of Open Source solutions for schools. The growing movement of free resources for education including software and opencourseware solutions continue to thrive. This movement … Continue reading
March 4, 2008
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The internet and the global economy are tied together by a series of network hubs, or links as explained by Albert-Lasziò Barabàsi’s book Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means. The knowledge economy is really … Continue reading
February 25, 2008
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Friday afternoon Milwaukee‘s Discover World hosted a live performance by the Philadelphia Orchestra via Internet2. The Philadelphia Orchestra Association is a member of Internet2. The HD video concert was projected in Discovery World’s Digital Theater which provides viewers with a … Continue reading
February 16, 2008
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Indiana University’s Advanced Network Management Laboratory (ANML) highlights the new BoreasNet optical network below. Boreas increases number of facilities managing optical networks in the Midwest. Michigan, Ohio and Indiana have established networks while Boreas covers schools including Iowa State University, … Continue reading
February 15, 2008
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Milwaukee has just been added by Google to their cool interactive Street View component of Google Maps? What a cool technology for the city and organizations to exploit in Google’s popular mapping service. So feel free to email anyone and … Continue reading
February 9, 2008
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If you were first introduced to globalization via Tom Friedman‘s The World Is Flat, you may be interested to learn more about this wave of economics. Many point to the recent book by Joseph Stiglitz called Making Globalization Work. This … Continue reading