[1st-mile-nm] GENI/US Ignite conference report

[David Breecker (dba)]

This is a great piece on the recent GENI/US Ignite conference, particularly for those who have difficulty imagining what ultra-high speed access is good for (and the role of the public sector in promoting it): http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/the-path-toward-tomorrows-internet/?emc=edit_th_20150331&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25396695 <http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/the-path-toward-tomorrows-internet/?emc=edit_th_20150331&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25396695>

High school students in Tennessee can see and manipulate ocean plankton under a superhigh-resolution microscope in Southern California, with a biologist in California serving as their tour guide.

Surgeons in Cleveland and Los Angeles share insights and run through a simulation of brain surgery on a biologically exact image of the patient’s brain just before the real operation begins.

Harnessing data from sources ranging from environmental sensor networks to patient records, researchers in Dallas and elsewhere are working to someday be able to send personalized alerts to people who are particularly sensitive to tiny airborne particles — notably, the 44,000 Americans who have an asthma attack each day, with 1,200 of them having to be admitted to a hospital.

Those were three of the projects shown off at a gathering last week <http://www.smartfuture2015.com/>that focused on what ultrahigh-speed Internet communications and advanced software can make possible. The conference, in Arlington, Va., brought together participants in two initiatives supported by National Science Foundation: the Global Environment for Network Innovations project, or GENI <http://www.geni.net/>, and US Ignite <https://us-ignite.org/>.


David Breecker, President





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