A completely smart city is one in which there is an invisible network of devices that can communicate and control buildings. Buildings are the major user of electrical energy. 65% of electrical energy is used in buildings. Taking the building control systems and making them energy aware and intelligent Continue reading →

The lecture covers a series of topics related to intelligent environments, like ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, embedded systems, augmented reality, smart objects / environment, as well as Continue reading →

Nicola Villa is Global Director of Connected Urban Development at Cisco Systems. The talk is from the 5ht annual summit of the International Community Forum on “Building the Broadband Economy”, New York, May 13-15, 2008. Continue reading →

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, discussed the exciting new field of web science which he is pioneering at MIT, in partnership with colleagues at Southampton University, which seeks to understand the impact the web is having on our society and economy. Continue reading →