IEEE’s Special Report: "The Best & Worst Technology Projects" (2)
IEEE’s 2008 LOSERS: Click here to read my previous post.
IEEE’s 2008 WINNERS:
“Make Your Very Own Virtual World with OLIVE” by David Kushner.
Last year I blogged quite a bit about SecondLife, a popular and general purpose virtual environment. One of my posts talked about new branded and mission specific virtual environments. David’s article focuses on OLIVE, which stands for On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment, enabling the creation of custom virtual 3D worlds with VoIP for voice communications. Olive is mostly used by agencies and corporations to develop simulations for professional training purposes. This product has also been put to work in the entertainment market, MTV’s virtual worlds complementing television shows being the example. http://forterrainc.com
“Sprint’s Broadband Gamble” by Steven Cherry
Steven portrays Sprint’s Xohm as a new cellular service which will sell high-speed data access instead of phones and phone calls. His briefing captures Jeffrey Davis’ comments about data rates being high enough to motivate broadband users to discontinue fixed services such as DSL and cable, following the same pattern experienced in some markets where cellular voice customers primarily have dropped the traditional wire-line phone service. If interested in this subject, a couple of my last year’s posts, “cut the cord 1” and “cut the cord 2“, explore some of the implications regarding broadband wireless. http://www.xohm.com/
“The Ultimate Dielectric Is…Nothing” by Sarah Adee.
IBM leverages vacuum to insulate microchip wiring, to deliver higher speeds, e.g. 10-15 faster, coupled with a more efficient power consumption. IBM is making the technology available to research partners such as AMC, Freescale, Sony and Toshiba, this technology being key to next generation microprocessors. http://www.research.ibm.com/
“Solving the Oil Equation” by Erico Guizzo.
Geophysicists and computer scientists are using supercomputers to run advanced seismic-imaging code for finding oil. This will be of great help to locate hydrocarbons in ultradeep water, the so-called next frontier in petroleum exploration as oil resources in shallow shelf waters are expected to drain. However, this kind of exploration is traditionally challenging and expensive, thus the attractiveness of this project based on two-way wave equation seismic imaging. The players featured in Erico’s article are Repsol YPF, 3DGeo and Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
“Restoring Coal’s Sheen” by William Sweet
Coal is the source of 25% of the energy consumed in the world and it also happens to be the main source of greenhouse gas emissions. A Swedish energy company is working on a new and simple approach to carbon capture by burning coal in an atmosphere of pure oxygen. http://www.vattenfall.com/co2free
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Thanks for the links! There’s an interesting WiMax development just this week, an announcement from Chrysler at the Detroit auto show.
http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/tech_talk/2008/01/get_your_broadband_fix_on_rout.html
By the way, it’s “IEEE,” with 3 Es. It wouldn’t be worth mentioning except there’s another excellent organization (or “organisation”), the IEE, in the UK, which does similar things.
Steven Cherry
metaphorical
16 Jan 08 at 11:46 am
I really do like this place.
Assissotom
17 Jan 08 at 5:09 am
Steven, thanks for posting your comment. I just corrected the typo. Thanks again.
consultaglobal
18 Jan 08 at 8:28 am