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Free IBM RedGuides about Smarter Planet topics

Posted by  on 23 May 2011, 10:01 am

This IBM® Redguide™ publication is the first paper in the Smarter Cities™ Series of Redguide publications. This particular guide provides insight into the IBM Smarter Cities vision and explains how information and technology can help make cities smarter. It focuses on the foundation that is used to build a smarter city. It also explains how data and information found at all levels of the city are critical to understanding and making good decisions for the city and its citizens. This guide delves into the issues around data including the sharing of information and ensuring that individual and business data is secured. It also provides a high-level architecture and ideas that will help in the transformation of cities.

see this web site:  http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4733.html?Open

AND MORE…

This series of Redguide publications is intended for IT architects and city officials who are interested in identifying ways to make their city smarter. This series includes the following guides, which will be available soon:

  • Smarter Cities Series: Introducing the IBM City Operations and Management Solution, REDP-4734
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Efficient Buildings, REDP-4735
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Water Management, REDP-4736
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Traffic Management, REDP-4737
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Public Safety, REDP-4738
  • Smarter Cities Series: Understanding the IBM Approach to Energy Innovation, REDP-4739

 

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an opportunity for your summer students

Posted by  on 6 May 2011, 1:29 pm

Profs!!  ask your students who are interested in making the planet a better place to live to go check this out! Get in at the start of a cool new group on campus.

http://www.sfspglobal.org/news/index.html

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TED talk on sustainable design

Posted by  on 1 April 2011, 12:31 pm

*Sustainable Design: Materials, Energy, Sensing*
http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pawlyn_using_nature_s_genius_in_architecture.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-02-16

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200 countries, 200 years in 4 minutes

Posted by  on 15 December 2010, 11:37 am

Video link

As global economies converge in the upper quadrant of rich & healthy, there are infinite possibilities to prosper and coexist peacefully.

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Filling the Need for Skilled Workers Requires Smarter Education

Posted by  on 16 September 2010, 12:51 pm

Article link

Diane Melley

Diane Melley is a director in IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs.
Posted: September 9, 2010 01:10 PM
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Short Takes 27 Aug

Posted by  on 27 August 2010, 6:58 am

Service Science Ontology (Italy) http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrarioGuarinoFIS08Proceedings.pdf
Service Science Ontology (Italy) Legal framework http://www.loa-cnr.it/Papers/FerrGuarFern.pdf

Transportation (China) Bus Straddles Cars http://tinyurl.com/3angwlh

Water (WW) Pepsi Pledge http://tinyurl.com/369m7et

Water/Environment (WW) Tropi-Dry http://tropi-dry.eas.ualberta.ca/2_who.html

Energy (WW) Cool Solar Highways http://www.flixxy.com/solar-highways.htm

Energy (Germany) Improved Solar Cell Models http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100719083044.htm

Comm/ICT (Canada) Wireless Sensors http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/research/research-areas/database-systems/wireless-sensors

Buildings (US) Green Homes http://tinyurl.com/38mtdfx

Retail/Media & Entertainment (Canada) Serious Games  https://w3.tap.ibm.com/weblogs/chamilto@ca.ibm.com/entry/jesse_schell_gaming_the_world

Finance/Business (US) US Competitive in Call Center http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0f6d8f76-aa29-11df-9367-00144feabdc0.html

Health (Africa) Health Alliance http://halliance.org/

Education (US) Clarkson is Green http://www.clarkson.edu/news/view.php?id=2493

Education (India) Centers of Excellence http://www-07.ibm.com/in/university/aiinnews.html#excellence

City (WW) IBM CityOne Game  http://www-01.ibm.com/software/solutions/soa/innov8/cityone/index.html

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Short takes 7 August

Posted by  on 7 August 2010, 3:31 pm

Handbook of Service Science (Springer) http://tinyurl.com/3798ybl

Service Science Progress and Directions (Spohrer) http://www.slideshare.net/spohrer/service-science-progress-and-directions-20100620

International Conference Exploring Service Science (Switzerland) http://iess.unige.ch/   http://www.slideshare.net/ServicesScience/iess-10-welcome

Public Service Delivery (EU) COCKPIT  http://www.cockpit-project.eu/

Ecoblocks (WW) Harrison Fraker UCBerkeley  http://www.slideshare.net/geoff848/harrison-fraker-ecoblocks

Grand Challenge Summit (US) USC http://www.naegrandchallengessummit2010.org/

Energy and Climate Change Network (Greece) http://www.kepa.uoa.gr/PROMITHEAS_general.htm

Nano Progress (Lux Populi) Green Science and Tech Research  http://tinyurl.com/24pr72v

HPC (UK) Edinburg http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Eddie-Gets-Power-Boost-Goes-Green-97861034.html

HPC Cloud (US) CITRIS   http://cloud.citris-uc.org

Venturing and Investing (WW) Guild Investment http://guildinvestment.com/

New York City Venture Fellows (US) http://www.nycventurefellows.org .

Strategic Business Insights (WW) Http://www.strategicbusinessinsights.com

XBRL standard for financial reporting (US) VintageFiling http://www.vfilings.com/

Learning in Informal and Formal Environments (SRI) LIFE http://www.life-slc.org/about-the-life-center

Service Factory Education  (US) Students Meet Your Robot Teacher  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/science/11robots.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Personal Robot Industry in Our Life Time (WW) Silicon Valley’s Willow Garage http://tinyurl.com/2amtzju

Robots that Make Things (MakerBots) http://www.makerbot.com/

Service Factory Health  (US) Factory Efficiency Comes to Hospitals http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/11/business/11seattle.html

Service System Learning (New Scientist) To Be The Best, Learn From The Rest http://tinyurl.com/2ft2xsm

Smarter Systems (US) National Governors Association http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/government/article/palmisano_nga_speech.html

Industry University Collaboration (US) Research and Education  http://research.google.com/university/relations/eduSummit2007/

Industry University Collaboration (US) Research and Education  http://tinyurl.com/25amc78

Learning Design and Technology (US) Stanford  http://ldt.stanford.edu

Learning Object Metadata (US) Tom Wason http://www.tomwason.com

Spectrum of Higher Education (US) NYT on Delta Project Report  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/10/education/10education.html

Trends in College Spending (US) Delta Project  Report http://deltacostproject.org/analyses/delta_reports.asp

WW GDP and Top Ranked Universities (WW) http://tinyurl.com/2wy7hu9

Charter Cities (WW) Paul Romer’s TED Talk http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html

Innovation City (US) Manor Texas http://cityofmanor.org

Innovation City (US) Babcock Ranch Florida http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/31827.wss

Innovation City (Denmark) http://www.bass.dk/power/

City Forward (WW) http://www.CityForward.org

Urban Age (WW) http://www.urban-age.net

Study of Work (US) Colorado http://www.colorado.edu/Research/CISW/

Changing the Conversation (US) Marketing Engineering http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12187#toc

SSME (IBM) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/spaces/ssme

Smarter Istanbul (Turkey) http://tinyurl.com/2uq2jjx

Global Mining and Carbon Report (IBM) http://www-05.ibm.com/uk/green/cdp2009/mining.html?ca=_mining_lead_&me=w&met=uk_green

Business Process Bluepinting tool (IBM) http://www-01.ibm.com/software/integration/bpm-blueprint/

Available via Academic Initiatives website (IBM) https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/university/academicinitiative/

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Emerging Industry: City Making and Recycling:

Posted by  on 1 August 2010, 3:26 pm

People are used to recycling bottles, cellphones, and cars, so why not whole cities or at least sections of cities?

(1) Cities are very important, and by 2050 75% of the worlds population will be urban dwellers http://www.urban-age.net

(2) Great cities depend on great universities, and universities are often in the top ten employers of regions (top 5 if they have a medical school and hospital attached) http://www.edu-impact.com

(3) The relationship between great cities and great universities is becoming a vital partnership as change accelerates http://www.usucoalition.org/downloads/part4/great_cities_great_universities.pdf

(4) The % of WW GDP by nation and % of top-500-ranked universities are correlated very, very highly http://www.arwu.org/ARWUAnalysis2009.jsp

(5) There is green-tech, city-making industry emerging, and it will require rethinking urban space and property law to better support continuous improvement.  Urban sustainability and service innovations will be key,  and the next Moore’s Law may be a Moore’s law related to green buildings, and smarter cities (decade scale, but exponential change) – perhaps… http://www.pacebutler.com/blog/making-detroit-bloom-again/

http://www.charleslandry.com/docs/Bk-landry.pd

http://www.urban-age.net/publications/newspapers/istanbul/articles/04_PhilippRode/en_GB/

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/06/home-recycling/1

http://www.weareacasa.com/

For example, here is a mini-city in the making inside Silicon Valley: http://deliveringthefuture.org/

Part of a climate to prosperity green tech effort http://www.jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/GreenprintforSiliconValley2409embargoedto22009.pdf

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Short takes week of 7/30

Posted by  on 30 July 2010, 3:14 pm

Call for papers SRII (WW) Service Research and Innovation Institute  www.thesrii.org
Journal of International of Commerce, Economics, and Policy (WW) JICEP http://www.worldscinet.com/jicep/jicep.shtml

International Conference (Thailand) Management of Engineering and Technology PICMET’10 http://www.picmet.org/new/Conferences/2010/

Technology and Information Management Program (US) UC Santa Cruz http://www.tim.ucsc.edu/

OECD Innovation Report (WW) Sustainable and greener growth http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/51/28/45326349.pdf

US White House Innovation Report (US) Sustainability and job creation http://tinyurl.com/29rovwv

Zero Energy Office Buildings (US) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSF5ybnaJXQ&feature=player_embedded

Green Print (US) Joint Venture Silicon Valley http://tinyurl.com/27dbj44

CyberCity and High Tech Jobs (US) NYC http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20080624/FREE/695433497#

Most profitable companies (WW) http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2010/performers/companies/profits/

Big Challenges and Opportunities (US) Tim Draper Venture Capitalist  http://tinyurl.com/27je3mp

Job Growth (US) Driven by New Firms http://tinyurl.com/38t6n9e

Worldometers (WW) http://www.worldometers.com

World Hunger (WW) UN Report http://www.fao.org/hunger/en/

World Hunger Deaths Per Hour (WW) Poverty.com http://www.poverty.com/

World Poverty (WW) World Bank Report http://tinyurl.com/7h7x5

World Governance (WW) World Bank Report http://info.worldbank.org/governance/wgi/index.asp

World Human Rights (WW) UN Report http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html

Defining Discrimination (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrimination

Defining Macroeconomics (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomics

Visualizing GDP per capita (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GDP_PPP_Per_Capita_IMF_2008.svg

Cities (WW) http://www.urban-age.net/

History of Cities (WW) https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WcitiesH.htm

Universities Economic Impact (WW) https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WcitiesH.htm

History of Universities (WW) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_European_research_universities

Academic Ranking of World Universities (WW) http://www.arwu.org

History of Schools and Universal Education (US) http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/index.html

Economic Analysis by Country (WW) The Economist http://countryanalysis.eiu.com/

National Statistics (WW) Nationmaster http://www.nationmaster.com/index.php

Teach for America (US) 12% of All Ivy League Seniors Attracted  http://tinyurl.com/2eyxsvg

Imagine Cup (WW) http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2010/07/imagine-cup-introduction/#ixzz0t8QE5ccY

Education Innovation Blog (US) http://theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-i-learned-recently-in-nyc_08.html

Citizen Science (US)  Gulf Oil Spill  http://mogo.cs.umass.edu/

Silicon Vally Innovation Institute (US) Innovate or Die http://www.svii.org

Free K-12 Textbooks (US) Content K-12  http://www.ck12.org

Is the end of printed books near? (WW) http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/05/google-penguin-and-the-future-of-e-books/

Education Summit (US) Google 2007 http://research.google.com/university/relations/eduSummit2007/

Artifact-centric service interoperations (EU) http://www.acsi-project.eu/

Research to accelerate the design, deployment, and management of e-service blends (EU)
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-and-european-union-join-to-develop-new-collaborative-e-business-model-extending-open-source-and-cloud-technologies-97913489.html

IBM Almaden has Tandberg Telepresence (US) http://www.tandberg.com/telepresence/ http://www.ivci.com/videoconferencing-tandberg-telepresence.html
Cisco acquired Tandberg (US, Sweden) http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/ns669/ttg.html
My dream (WW) High QoS Connections to All the Universities in the World  http://www.nlr.net/telepresence-faq.php

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Desalination alternatives

Posted by  on 22 July 2010, 11:45 am

Desalination Plants: The folks at U Texas El Paso have been very helpful in my efforts to understand groundwater and inland desalination.  Also, Peter Williams has been helpful in my quest to understand desalination.  He notes that while very popular, Reverse-Osmosis desal is not necessarily the clear favorite these days- there are new alternatives out there that promise much lower energy consumption.  Forward osmosis, ion-stripping (check out www.saltworks.com, as an example), low pressure flash desal, and others.   Brine disposal is absolutely a huge issue – especially groundwater brine which can have boron, arsenic, selenium and who-knows what else in it – usually, these contaminants are naturally occurring, but they become concentrated by the desalination process.    IBM is a major user of RO filtration to create ultra-pure water for chip manufacturing.  IBM has ultra-pure water engineers at our Burlington Fab.

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