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Novel communications architecture for a connected world

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 07:09 AM PDT

The ubiquity and flexibility of wireless access to the Internet played a very significant role in the tremendous growth in mobile devices such as smartphones, tablet PCs, and laptops over the past years. Their tight integration into everyday life is having a substantial impact on society. As a consequence, a larger and larger fraction of Internet traffic is delivered wirelessly. How to deal with this growth is one of the most important challenges for future wireless networks.

From spreadsheets to solutions: New platform enables next generation of open city data

Posted: 23 Sep 2014 08:06 AM PDT

Plenario, a new platform for accessing, combining, downloading, and visualizing datasets released by city, county, state, and federal governments, offers a user-friendly and powerful interface to push data-driven urban research beyond spreadsheets and towards deeper insights and solutions.