Hello World its Maxwell
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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Category Archives: WiscNet
Large Hadron Collider’s big network
15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists worldwide and travels across the US Midwest via BoreasNet.
In this video CERN technologists discuss the [...]
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Tagged boreas, cern, gigabit ethernet ports, hadron collider, Internet2, large hadron, lhc, midwest, Network, particle physics, petabytes, robust network, storage devices
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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
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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:
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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
A small school’s BIG cost
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Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Green, Innovation, Network, OpenSource, Technology, Wave
Tagged annual technology, anti virus, apps for education, bandwidth, budget line, carbon footprint, change, cipa, client software, college, crt monitors, economy, Education, email solutions, energy, filtering, financial managers, firstclass, Google, google apps, Green, green energy, k12, k12 district, k12 school districts, microsoft, Network, organization, school district, smaller schools, software licensing, student enrollment, tax payer, Technology, technology budgets, tipping point, trends