Ref.
Bootstrap Institute's Vision
http://www.bootstrap.org/vision_mission.htm
Abstract
==========
This technical report considers the problem of providing a geocast
service, which is useful for sending messages to everyone in a specified
geographical region, in mobile ad hoc networks. In the report, a novel
geocasting algorithm combining unicasting and flooding is proposed for
an efficient geocast packet delivery. TORA (unicast) routing protocol is
first modified to be able to perform "anycasting" service. Our
geocasting algorithm is then obtained using a small variation on the
anycasting protocol.
http://www.cs.tamu.edu/faculty/vaidya/papers/mobile-computing/00-015.ps
Digital Earth pointers:
DEVELOP (Digital Earth Virtual Environment & Learning Outreach Project)
briefing
http://digitalearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/meetings/ppp1/JMU.ppt
National Biological Information Infrastructure
http://digitalearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/meetings/ppp2/jhunter.ppt
CAMESA (Consortium for Advancing the Monitoring of Ecosystem
Sustainability in the Americas)
http://digitalearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/meetings/ppp1/CAMESA-Aguirre-Bravo.doc
Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/
There are now several schools using the Electronic Laboratory Notebook
(ELN) as a way to keep students (high school through graduate level) and
mentors in contact. The ELN allows groups to "publish" text, screen
captures, equations, data files, etc. to a password restricted web
notebook organized into chapters and pages.
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/intro/elnotebooks.html
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/research/doe2000.research.html
DOE2000 Electronic Notebook Project Summary
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/collab/research/ENResearch.5.00.html
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/docs/cpse/workshop/TechPresentations/Gracio/index.htm
If the info above is of interest to the Bootstrap Institute, then maybe
we can pitch a proposal to NSF and/or philanthropy VCs for early stage
venture investing? Since, as OHS/DKR collaborators on Dave Huges' Bio.
Sci by Wireless Projects, Dr. Engelbart of the Bootstrap Institute and
our new team at SRI could be CoDIAK developers based on our augmentation
of the Electronic Lab Notebook and the Federal Digital Earth Initiative
(see background info below)?
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Background Info
Biological Science by Wireless Project Plan
http://wireless.oldcolo.com/biology/projectplan.htm
Dave Hughes, co-owner of Old Colorado City Communications has won a 3
Year $1,029,000 continuing grant by the National Science Foundation to
develop models using advanced wireless technologies to assist Biological
Scientists gathering scientific data from remote and difficult locations
and communicate it over the Internet. The first year award is $384,830,
with work starting September 15th, 1999.
The biological science by wireless grant, ANI-9909218, is officially
titled "Prototype Testing and Evaluation of Wireless Instrumentation for
Ecological Research at Remote Field Locations." The award has been made
through Hughes's small business, Old Colorado City Communications, as
the fiduciary and administrative host organization. Hughes is the
Principal Investigator and responsible for the work to be done. He has
selected several assistants, including Mike Willett of Open Minds of
Colorado Springs who specializes in wireless engineering. Hughes'
partner, Larry Fox, who has extensive experience in 3rd World countries,
will administer the grant. Don Mitchell of the National Science
Foundation oversees the grant project for the NSF.
Initially the 3 years of experiments and development will take place
concurrently in the rain forests of Puerto Rico and the frozen lakes
region of Northern Wisconsin. University scientists in both places are
involved in Long Term Ecological Research. Hughes findings will
initially be shared with the 1,200 US scientists working at 21 other NSF
funded Biological Sciences field sites across the US. However the work
will be useful for scientific field research anywhere in the world says
Hughes. The wireless links will involve satellite connections as well as
new forms of terrestrial wireless using a variety of solar, wind, or
water generated electrical power to run miniaturized computer systems
and wireless devices.
As an example, Hughes may use small spread spectrum radios to
communicate continuously the night sounds of 'Coqui' - the
thumnail-sized, unique frogs of Puerto Rico from a mountain top in the
El Junque rain forest. Historically researchers have had to climb wet
Mount Toro for hours after dark and use tape recorders from a blind for
a few hours at a time to capture the sounds from a rare sub-species of
Eleutherodactylus. Hughes expects when he is done, that anyone connected
to the Internet in laboratories, science classes in schools, or even at
home, can listen in real time to the rare tiny frogs. "It may sound like
an adventure game," says Hughes "but it will support serious scientific
research. I'll have a ball doing it, however." Other applications will
link sensors measuring such things as chemistry, effects of light,
growth, weather, and water properties in multiple environments.
Hughes, 71, has been developing original Internet applications for
wireless communications for the past 8 years, having connected up rural
schools in the San Luis Valley, science educators to polluted streams in
Montana, public libraries in Mongolia, and the historical web site in
the Old Colorado City Colorado district of Colorado Springs. This is the
5th National Science Foundation award for Hughes, who was named last
year by Wired Magazine as one of the most original 'Wired 25' innovators
in the world. He has been most recently published in Scientific
American, and the MIT Press.
The NSF wireless field tests web site http://wireless.oldcolo.com will
be expanded to carry running reports on this new project.
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The Federal Digital Earth Initiative
(http://digitalearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/)
FGDC Executive Order 12906
.... The Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) is tasked by Executive
Order 12906 to develop procedures and assist in the implementation of a
distributed discovery mechanism for digital geospatial data. Using the
data elements defined in the Content Standards for Digital Geospatial
Metadata, governmental, non-profit, and commercial participants
worldwide can make their collections of spatial information searchable
and accessible on the Internet using free reference implementation
software developed by the FGDC. The Geospatial Data Clearinghouse is a
collection of over 100 spatial data servers, that have digital
geographic data primarily for use in Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), image processing systems, and other modelling software. In April,
2000 the FGDC announced the availability of a free Metadata Workbook.
(http://www.spatialnews.com/whitepapers/fgdc_workbook_0501_bmk.pdf)
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