Tag Archives: Europe
In memoriam: William Mitchell
William Mitchell, MIT dean and professor, architect, urbanist and theorist, widely regarded as one of the most prominent thinker on “smart cities”, has passed away; see here the official MIT obituary. Photography from MIT obituary page Right now a Twitter … Continue reading
Vertigo on paper
One of the most interesting projects on which I have been working over the last few months is finally on paper — at least part of it (download available from the publications list). For once, there is even a better … Continue reading
CREATE-NET workshop on forthcoming EU research calls
Last week in Bergamo I had the opportunity to attend the two-days 4th technical and funding workshop promoted by CREATE-NET, a dynamic international research institute in Trento; “the focus of CREATE-NET’s research is on the Internet of the Future, both … Continue reading
Joi Ito on the mobile Internet (lack of) openness
Interesting, critical reflections about how it should not be taken for granted that the openness typical of the Internet (or most of it) is going to dominate its mobile extension: “I don’t think there is anything wrong with mobile or … Continue reading
Socio-economic analysis of technology
As part of the SPICE project, successfully completed an initial socio-economic analysis on the potential impact of the technologies reseearched and developed in that same project (in short, a mobile service creation and execution platform, with a set of context-awareness, … Continue reading
