February 2010
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“Monday afternoon, the Seattle City Council announced that Seattle will aim to...”
– Bright Green: Imagining a Carbon Neutral Seattle: A Collection of Ideas (via Worldchanging)
Feb 27th
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Three Ways the Telecom Industry Must Prepare for... →
Feb 26th
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“The IBM system does that, too, but it relies on significantly more sources of...”
– IBM Is Working To Make Your Drive Faster & More Personalized | The Car Connection
Feb 26th
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Quick notes: Road pricing in the Netherlands --... →
Feb 25th
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The IBM Global Delivery Smarter Cities Challenge →
IBM’s Global Delivery organization includes more than 50,000 IBMers in centers around the world, from Argentina to Vietnam. We’ve challenged these global professionals to share their ideas and stories on the smarter cities they want to live and work in. And global citizens around the…
Feb 24th
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Smarter Buildings impact the Economy →
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Water footprint calculator →
Your individual water footprint is equal to the water required to produce the goods and services consumed by you.
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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“Many metro cities, counties are ignorant
 of own water controls”
– Storm-drain neglect creates nightmares (ajc.com)
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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A Smarter Planet needs Smarter Buildings →
Feb 22nd
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GOOD: Zipcar: The Apple of Car Sharing →
tayloransley: A neat look at the many things Zipcar does well.  I’m particularly struck by how the complexity of fleet management behind the scenes is largely hidden (in a good way) from consumers.  Two examples from the piece: RFID cards and readers: These are low-power transmitters embedded into the membership cards of each customer, who, upon arriving at their car, waves the card over a...
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Smarter Transportation Forum in DC
smartercities: ajmacisaac: In 2010, there are 476 urban areas with at least 1 million people worldwide. That’s an increase of 573% from 1950 when there were 83. Over half the world’s population now lives in urban areas. Transportation congestion continues to grow, wasting time and money while creating more pollution. Most of the developed world’s transportation infrastructures were designed...
Feb 22nd
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The Outernet Guidelines Initiative A global forum to discuss how pervasive, mobile computing, augmented reality and smart objects, sensors and devices are transforming the Internet into the Outernet. The objective: to anticipate the cultural, commercial and policy implications that the convergence of digital and physical realms will engender. Outernet Guidelines
Feb 21st
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Feb 20th
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Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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It's Time for Better Technology in Airports →
Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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New Plan Would Let High Schoolers Graduate Early →
infoneer-pulse: Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college. Students who pass but aspire to attend a selective college may continue with college preparatory courses in their junior and senior years, organizers of the new effort...
Feb 17th
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““Right now, we’re exploring the question: What kinds of sounds do...”
– News: ‘Sonic Babylon’ sound gardens wed technology, storytelling around the world || Bucknell University
Feb 17th
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WatchWatch
An Early Adopter’s Quick Guide To Web.Alive « Caleb Booker (FYI: We’ve launched the IBM Business Analytics Center — which is also based on web.alive and designed to support our Business Analytics & Optimization services. The Mellanium site mentioned here has examples of very high-resolution models as seen in this clip) “The interface was obvious. Fixing up my avatar...
Feb 17th
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Join us for the Smarter Transportation Forum in... →
Feb 17th
Smarter Cities Forum now coming to you --... →
Feb 17th
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“Medical diagnostics – IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University...”
– IBM Research Solving New Problems with Chip, Materials, and Nanotech Expertise | A Smarter Planet Blog
Feb 17th
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Beyond mammography: Handheld laser scanner...
In 2003, researchers at UC Irvine’s Beckman Laser Institute received a $7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to standardize use of a laser imaging device they had created for better detection and diagnosis of breast cancer. The investment is beginning to pay off. http://www.physorg.com
Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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Working Smarter in Healthcare An InformationWeek Healthcare Webcast: Working Smarter in Healthcare Date: Thursday February 25, 2010  Time: 9:00 am PT / 12:00 pm ET Duration: One Hour Working smarter in healthcare means creating an agile and collaborative organization that empowers people and embraces change. It means leveraging the combined power of people, processes and...
Feb 16th
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The Smart Politics of High Speed Rail in the US →
townsandcities: According to an E&E analysis, the passenger rail lines that received stimulus cash go through more than 40 percent of all congressional districts, including those represented by a number of powerful lawmakers that will play a key role in finding the tens of billions of additional dollars thought to be needed to complete the work.
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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ITIF Report: Safer, Smarter and Greener Mobility...
ajmacisaac: ITIF Report:  Safer, Smarter and Greener Mobility with Intelligent Transportation Systems There are dazzling technologies at work in the world of transportation, from real-time traffic information delivered in-vehicle or to cell phones, to computerized adaptive traffic signal lights, to enabling vehicles to communicate with roadside infrastructure or other vehicles. Unfortunately,...
Feb 16th
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Using SeeClickFix to Uncover Potholes
smartercities: Spot.Us is a nonprofit organization that fundraises for independent journalists. When we approached the Oakland Tribune to see what project they might be interested in funding the Editor in Chief Martin Reynolds knew exactly what topic they wanted to cover: Potholes. Oakland has a problem with potholes and rubbled streets. The Oakland Tribune already had contracted with a...
Feb 16th
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Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-Playing Computer, Trumps Humans | Switched.com Watson, IBM’s behemoth ‘Jeopardy’-slaughtering machine, is now smart enough to beat humans. Oh, and it’s not connected to the Internet.
Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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The Power of One
smartercities: When people ask me what SeeClickFix is, or what it does, I avoid the tech speak and instead try to get to the heart of what it has meant to my community - “SeeClickFix is an online tool that turns one citizen’s concern into a neighborhood invested in a positive action” On our quiet, residential street, one neighbor saw a very suspicious car continually parked in front of a school...
Feb 15th
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courtenaybird: Smart! Wi-Fi Turns Bus Ride Into a Rolling Study Hall http://ow.ly/16BGE (RT @infoneer_pulse)
Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Introducing the IBM Research Collaboratory for... →
Feb 11th
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