Since Silicon Valley has been the engine of a revolutionary new economy,
delivering information technology that has driven California business
growth to new levels, it's now time to aim such an effort at
California's biggest challenges—energy efficiency, transportation,
earthquake preparedness, health care, education, and others on the
horizon.
< http://www.citris.berkeley.edu/cisi_proposal.html>
* "In organizing this ambitious research agenda, CITRIS (Center for
Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) will
concentrate on producing useful technology: design principles,
architectures, software tools, algorithms, and SIS (Societal-scale
Information Systems) prototypes. This research will be undertaken
in collaboration with our Founding Corporate Members (BroadVision,
Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Infineon, Intel, Marvell
Semiconductor, Microsoft, Nortel Networks, STMicroelectronics, and
Sun Microsystems) as well as many other affiliated companies,
including Agilent, Texas Instruments, and Conexant, who have agreed
to participate actively in our research. These partners and our
private donors have already pledged more than $170M to support
CITRIS, almost all of it contingent on $100 million in matching
state funds proposed over the next three years in the Governor's
2001-02 budget."
So relative to our Silicon Valley energy crisis and location within the
existing Mt. Diablo Open R&D Wireless Testbed (30 mi. radius) for the
Cognitive Radio, a recent PhD thesis, and book by Joseph Mitola III
(Cognitive Radio: An Integrated Agent Architecture for Software Defined
Radio <http://www.it.kth.se/~jmitola/Mitola_Dissertation8_Integrated.pdf
> <http://www.wirelessdesignonline.com/read/nl20010504/382295 >),
including an excellent roadmap for commercializing
<http://www.jacksons.net/tac/FCC-%20TAC%20-%20SDR%20and%20SM%20reg-27Sep00-v1.ppt>,
I believe we have a excellent opportunity for receiving funding for
bootstrapping the Cognitive Radio with topic map (XTM) and OHS/DKR
capabilities.
After all, what else could be better for augmenting wireless
collaboration capabilities in order to solve urgent complex energy
problems, etc. in California?
More background info:
* Dale Hatfield's, Ex-FCC's Chief for Office of Emerging Technology
keynote address promoting the use of the software-definable and
Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios for improving RF spectrum
resources: <
http://rawcon.org/keynote.html
>
< http://rawcon.org/hatfield.html >
* SDR
Primer
< http://www.sdrforum.org/sdr_primer.html
>
< http://www.mmitsforum.org/MTGS/mtg_003_sep96/tellabs1.html >
* Article from Scientific American about MIT's Software-definable
Radio
< http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899dertouzos.html
>
< http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899zue.html
>
< http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899guttag.html
>
< http://www.sciam.com/1999/0899issue/0899agarwal.html >
* Software Radio Resource
Page
<
http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/Thierry.Turletti/SoftwareRadio.html
>
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