tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/187357300 2008-05-14 15:22:27 -0400 EECS <p>Four MIT undergraduates shared a $25k prize as round one winners in Google's Android Developer Challenge, a worldwide open competition for software developers based on Google's Android software stack for mobile applications.</p><p>Clare Bayley '10, Carter Jernigan '08, Jasper Lin '08, and Christina Wright '08 were awarded the prize for their term project in Course VI class 6.087/6.081: Building Mobile Applications with Android. This experimental class, taught by EECS Prof. Hal Abelson with the aid of IS&amp;T's mobile devices platform project manager Andrew Yu, was unique in its use of professional (volunteer) application developers from the Boston software developer community as mentors. </p><p>Eric Carlson of ConnectedBits was the mentor for the winning 'Locale' project team. Locale was one of 50 winning projects selected on May 9 from a field of 1800 entries. As round 1 winners, the MIT students are now eligible to compete for higher levels in the Developer Challenge--leading to prizes of up to $275 thousand. </p> 665 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186955660 2008-12-02 10:53:31 -0500 MIT Mobile Experience Lab Future near-field communication (NFC) usages in every-day life Near-Field Communication is a short-range high-frequency wireless communication technology which enables the exchange of data between devices over approximately 10-cm distance. Current usages include mobile ticketing on public transportation systems, mobile payment, smart postering, and bluetooth pairing. For this project, MIT Mobile Experience Lab imagined future scenarios on NFC technology in the specific context of Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. More info mobile.mit.edu/en/nokianfc With the support of Nokia - Connecting People Core Team Federico Casalegno, David Boardman & Agnes Chang 262 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186839300 2008-12-02 12:22:12 -0500 MIT Mobile Experience Lab The MIT Mobile Experience Laboratory, in partnership with the Provincia di Brescia - Italy - is developing a sustainable ride-sharing system for youth that utilizes wearable media. <br><br> The system, with its main components of social networking, reputation management, referrals and geopositioning makes it possible to coordinate the matching of drivers and passengers with preferences entered online in user profiles. <br><br> The system can detect successful ride-shares and will reward participants accordingly, thereby providing an incentive to continue using the system. In addition to promoting social sustainability, the system also serves to prevent driving under the influence of alcohol. <br><br> The system is designed as open platform and promote social connection and trust, and wish to strenght the communication among communities and with institutions. <br><br> <a href="http://www.ridelink.ws">ridelink.ws</a><br> <a href="http://mobile.mit.edu">mobile.mit.edu</a><br> <br><br> Team<br> Federico Casalegno, Orkan Telhan, Guz Gutmann, Steve Pomeroy, Brian McMurray, Roberto Aimi, Sajid Sadi, David Boardman, Agnes Chang, Daniel Cardoso, Leonardo Benuzzi.<br><br> Photography &amp; Video editing<br> David Boardman <br><br> Soundtrack<br> "Demon Seed" by Nine Inch Nails (http://dl.nin.com/theslip/)<br> Released under CC, BY-NC-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/)<br> 89 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186494480 2008-12-02 12:46:16 -0500 MIT Mobile Experience Lab The Connected Home of the future will incorporate an integrated approach to buildings and their interaction with occupants, the local community, and beyond. This demonstration of the Connected Home of the future incorporates smart energy solutions, automated services and efficiency measures to aid citizens lead more sustainable lives. <br><br> Technologies such as a Personal Travel Assistant, energy monitoring tools, TelePresence and social networking interactions, and energy grids for micro generation of energy across the urban community illustrate how citizens can play a positive and sustainable role in their urban landscape. <br><br> Connected Urban Development <br> The following proof of concept studies are intended as future visions of the utilization of CUD pilot programs in urban environments. These visions of connected and sustainable urban development were created by MIT Mobile Experience Lab in collaboration with Cisco Systems - Internet Business Solutions Group. <br><br> Team <br> MIT Mobile Experience Lab<br> Federico Casalegno, Dave Chiu, David Boardman, Sergio Araya. <br> Special thanks to William J.Mitchell for advice and guidance. <br><br> Cisco Systems Inc.<br> Tony Kim, Shane Mitchell, J.D. Stanley, Nicola Villa. <br><br> 3D Renderings / Video<br> Creator.LT <br><br> More info:<br> <a href="http://mobile.mit.edu/connected-urban-development/">mobile.mit.edu/connected-urban-development/</a><br> <a href="http://connectedurbandevelopment.org">connectedurbandevelopment.org</a> 228 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186356740 2009-04-07 13:13:44 -0400 nextlab NextLab II: Launching Mobile Ventures for the Next Billion Consumers is a hands-on technology implementation and business execution course in which students develop high-impact mobile ventures. Such ventures are intended to enable mobile phone applications to scale-up and have widespread social benefit in developing communities and countries worldwide. Students work in multidisciplinary teams on term-long projects, closely collaborating with project partners, experts in communications technologies and sustainable business models, field practitioners, and with NextLab alumni . Students are expected to leverage technical ingenuity in both mobile and internet technologies together with entrepreneurial zeal in order to implement viable solutions that address social challenges in areas such as health, economic empowerment, education, and civic engagement. Similar to all NextLab courses, NextLab II’s final class period will be an open event in which all student team projects are presented to the pubic through live demos, poster sessions, and formal presentations. NextLab II students may follow up their projects with Summer travel grants for deployment in target markets. 188 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186232820 2009-04-16 13:55:43 -0400 MIT Mobile Experience Lab Mobile Experience Lab and Smart Cities Group worked together to envision future scenarios describing design opportunities related to topics that deal with social navigation, distributed data sensing, healthcare, bike sharing racks optimization, peer-to-peer freight, urban races and civic engagement. The final outcome consists in a 7 minutes video containing 10 scenarios that proposes our vision on Smart Mobility &amp; Ubiquitous Computing.<br><br> More info:<br> <a href="http://mobile.mit.edu/greenwheel/" target="_blank">mobile.mit.edu/greenwheel/</a><br> <a href="http://cities.media.mit.edu" target="_blank">cities.media.mit.edu</a> <br><br> Principal Investigators: Federico Casalegno, William J.Mitchell<br><br> Project Leaders: David Boardman, Ryan Chin, Michael Lin, Steve Pomeroy 496 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186141120 2009-05-22 12:12:49 -0400 hibur lectures Mobile WiMAX 4G, a.k.a. IEEE 802.16 is a cellular, IP based broadband wireless access network enabling mobile internet devices and applications, currently in early stage of worldwide deployment. The talk includes an introduction of the technology, an overview of main PHY and MAC properties, and a discussion of WiMAX evolution with respect to other mobile broadband networks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMAX 3930 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186097960 2009-08-27 14:00:29 -0400 nextlab Moca's visit to the Philippines in March 2009. For more information, please visit: http://nextlab.mit.edu/spring2009/moca/ and http://mocamobile.org/. 289 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/186006060 2009-08-04 15:55:53 -0400 Legatum Mr. Khoja’s involvement in the telecommunications sector in Afghanistan began in May 2002 as a volunteer consultant to the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development in an initiative to install the nationwide private communications infrastructure. In January 2003, Mr. Khoja was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer for the Telecom Development Company Afghanistan Ltd, t/a Roshan. Under his leadership, Roshan has grown to be Afghanistan’s largest mobile provider and today is the largest company in Afghanistan with over 3 million subscribers. Mr. Khoja is also Chairman of the Board of the Afghan Investment Climate Facility (AICF) and an advisor to the GSMA Development Fund. 820