DailyWireless is attending 2005 InnoTech Oregon, March 9th and 10th at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland.
The regional conference, with a tilt towards innovation, featured a variety of speakers and exhibitors including Software Association of Oregon, RAINS-Net (a secure messaging system), Open Source Software Entrepreneurs (POSSE) and Oregon Nanotech Industries such as the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute as well as a variety of Wireless Technology Events and Speakers, including;
- The Municipal Wireless Cloud, Just nice or a necessity?
March 9, 11:00am 12:00pm, Theater A
Nigel Ballard - Director of Wireless - Matrix Networks Flavor of the month for many City’s across the US right now is building a big juicy Wi-Fi cloud to call their own. Are they doing it for economic growth, positive social change it is just a case of political one-upmanship? - Can Wireless Bridge ‘The Connected Class’ Divide?
March 9, 3:00pm 4:00pm, Exhibit Hall Theater A
Nigel Ballard - Director of Wireless - Matrix Networks Its a sad fact that the digital divide is growing as opposed to shrinking. Easy assess to the Google interface is helping the ‘connected class’ race ahead. Do wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi and WiMAX have the capabilities to connect low-income families to the Internet affordably? - Public Safety and High Speed Broadband: When to WiFi, When to WiMAX and When to Ask Why?
March 10, 9:30am 10:30am, Exhibit Hall Theater A
Rick Lindahl, President and Founder, Invictus Networks, Fixed Wireless Solution Provider Homeland Security demands have increased greatly since 9/11 and broadband wireless networks are being developed to enhance their communication. Please attend this presentation to learn the differences between past, present and future technologies that are being used to solve these issues. Be prepared for a spirited presentation with questions taken from the audience and plenty of information from a highly experienced industry consultant. - Advantages of Broadband Wireless over Traditional Land-Based Internet Connections
March 10, 1:00pm 2:00pm, Exhibit Hall Theater A
Mark Meyers, Vice President, Infinity Internet Topic will cover current available wireless technologies, impacts on traditional Internet delivery methods and availability, and advantages of broadband wireless connections over land-based connections (such as cost savings, faster installations and speed upgrades, and more comprehensive service level agreements).
DailyWireless helped staff the PersonalTelco booth along with Tom Higgins and others.
Blogging speaker Alex Williams, who runs EventLab for Corante, stopped by to chat. Here’s a screen movie he made for a panel discussion on blogging. Williams is planning a very interesting blog event in Portland this summer which will take over an entire hotel. Check out EventLab for the latest.
Williams has details on a Blog Movie Made By Bloggers:
“I did a web-based video interview with Robin Good today, who is making a movie about the blogosphere that they are calling the Weblog Project. What makes it different? This is a movie where the bloggers are the producers, the fund raisers, the distributors and the actors. Here’s a clip, where Robin sums up what they are doing”.
Lots of Bio/Medical, Nanotech firms and organations were at the Portland conference, including the Pacific Northwest National Labs which has a major nanotech presence.
Directions Magazine has an interesting article on visualizing location information that was developed at Pacific Northwest National Labs . Perhaps the highest state of the art is Starlight, developed by Battelle and PNNL.
Starlight, originally developed for the intelligence community, provides visual access to large amounts of data in a 3D. It also was designed for large collaborations in assessment and analysis.
Starlight ingests large quantities of data, required to be in Extensible Markup Language (XML) format, and generates stunning visualizations of structured values, conditioned with color and shape in a manner not that different from the symbology and thematics used in mapping. Starlight also supports natural language queries in a manner similar to Google or Yahoo.
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| A visualization workflow begins with all the data displayed as a data sphere. This shows a uniform view of data collections and their relationship by shape and color. (Source: Battelle) |
In the image shown above, data is arranged by state and the concentrations of data relative to those geographies. As you would expect, you can zoom to a particular concentration and also see the attributes. For example, in the bottom of the sphere, near Kansas (KS) is a cluster that could represent the counties in Kansas by population, incidences of aircraft accidents, etc.
Below is a total view showing a set of data relationships from the previous image tied to a real geography.
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| This image shows aircraft accident incidents of various types and where they occurred.There are two key characteristics in this image. First, the image can have attributes not just super-imposed on it, but imbedded in it. Second, the data links can be real-time, allowing for the ability to see actions, relationships and other information dynamically update. |
The required hardware is no different than a typical mapping or CAD workstation. Just the basics of a high-resolution video card, large hard drive and a reasonably fast processor. Starlight will also run on a server and is scalable relative to the needs and requirement of the user(s).
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