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My TED favorites- A scene from TED's Saturday SXSW panel
- New Best of the Web talk: Gary Vaynerchuk
- The magic of the placebo: Eric Mead on TED.com
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- Ozomatli: Hear the new single and see our exclusive photos
- How I fell in love with a fish: Dan Barber on TED.com
- The year open data went worldwide: Tim Berners-Lee on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talks: Richard Feynman, Srikumar Rao
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Category Archives: WiscNet
Internet2 Spring Meeting netcast
Today begins Internet2’s Spring Member meeting. The hot topic of conversation? Broadband stimulus funding.
Also posted in Education, Globalization, Innovation, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, Technology
Tagged doug van houweling, Education, Internet2, Network, Technology
Brainstorm 10.0
Attended Brainstorm 10.0 today and had a chance to hear PC industry pundit John C. Dvorak. Brainstorm had a great number of technology sessions for K12 Technology Directors.
The most surprising session was “HD video over IP for Distance Learning” because the original presenter did not show up….so I decided to try an Unconference session that [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Google, HighRes, Innovation, Interactive, Milwaukee, Network, OLPC, OpenSource, Reading, Smartphone, Streaming, Technology, Web2.0
Tagged brainstorm, computing, distance learning, hd video, john c. dvorak, k12, Technology, wisconsin dells
YouTube, K12 web filtering & CIPA
I recently posted a tweet about my work with K12 school districts regarding web content filtering issues with YouTube and was very happy to receive a couple of DMs from Angela Maiers and Elizabeth Holmes, two education professionals who I consider to be leaders in knowledge sharing and teaching experiences they share on Twitter.
–Follow Angela [...]
BoreasNet now 200GBs
The Boreas Network in the Midwest connecting Iowa State University, the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has been upgraded to a 200GB network capacity.
This Regional Optical Network (RON) will be advancing the research opportunities in the upper midwest by enhancing the established optical network with new links installed [...]
Also posted in Education, Globalization, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, Technology
Tagged advanced network, boreas, iowa state, noc, optical network, univeristy of iowa, university of minnesota, university of wisconsin, WiscNet
The internet is dead. Long live the internet!
The 2008 Fall Internet2 member meeting last week in New Orleans proved that Big Science is here and I’m not sure the world is prepared to handle LHC’s generated data. The session included an HD video conference to the Large Hadron Collider.
Session Overview:
October 15, 2008, 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM | UTC/GMT -5 hours (CDT)
The [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, Streaming, Technology
Tagged 100 gigabit, bandwidth, big science, cern, Education, fiber optic, hd video, Internet2, large hadron collider, lhc, member meeting, Network, network fiber, new orleans, optical, petabyte, research
Internet2 fall member meeting
The Fall member meeting of Internet2 is underway this week in New Orleans. Tulane President Scott Cowen is giving the keynote address. Catch the conference netcasts here. HD video is supported as well.
Tags: Internet2, bandwidth, network, fiber, globalization, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Internet2, Network, Streaming, Technology
Tagged Internet2, new orleans
MKE Angelbeat Conference
Today WiscNet is offsite at the 10th annual Angelbeat conference at the Milwaukee Hilton City Center. The team is coming in from Madison and I was able to sleep in this morning until 5:30am and hang with Max for a bit before driving downtown. The agenda looks pretty good, should learn much today:
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Milwaukee, Network, Technology
Tagged angelbeat, information, Milwaukee, networking, security
Bandwidth for Schools
A National Broadband Policy needs to be more than just a talking point. Schools in our country need to upgrade their internet bandwidth to 25 Megabytes per second. This is for every school — not just the K12 district who slices up the bandwidth based upon the total number of school buildings in [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, HighRes, Interactive, Internet2, Media Players, Milwaukee, Network, OLPC, OpenSource, Smartphone, Streaming, TED, Technology, Web2.0
Tagged 10mb, 5mb, 9/11, cable modem, educational internet, history lesson, local school, national_broadband policy, pearl harbor, Rich media, school k12, urban, video footage, world war ii
FTC Update coming
As WiscNet’s Future Technologies Conference wrapped up late yesterday followed by a staff outing in Madison. Will be posting a lot of content regarding our keynote speakers and Internet2 over the next couple of days and grabbing my flickr feed for FTC 2008.
Here is the link for FTC 2007.
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Interactive, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, OpenSource, Rich media, Technology, Web2.0
Tagged ftc, future technology conference, Internet2, madison, WiscNet, wisconsin
Large Hadron Collider’s big network
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Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Internet2, Milwaukee, Network, Technology
Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices