Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


Today, in Cambridge, UK, we celebrated the ten months of experiences and successes from the Cambridge white spaces trial, which was organized by a consortium of companies, including Microsoft. Sometimes called “Super Wi-Fi,” the white spaces can provide wireless coverage for rural areas that are often digitally disenfranchised, support machine-to-machine communication that can enable smart…

I have posted a few thoughts on the coming Internet of Things and the implications for cognitive communication over on the Microsoft on the Issues blog. Everywhere, anytime communication is a notable result of recent computing advances, but it’s dependent upon available bandwidth, and that bandwidth is finite. Spectrum is, in many ways, like a…