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Overview: The Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST), a non-profit society, headquartered in Brussels, is initiating a new program directed at improving the way science is turned into innovation in Europe. A key part of this program is the launching of a series of web portals. It is envisioned that the web portals will be a grassroots undertaking by all the members of the ICST society.

Internet of Things: It's the network, stupid!

Why IoT is not just RFID

By Dr. Sabrina Sicari

How IT can cut carbon emissions

Information and communications technologies will become a major source of greenhouse gas emissions but can abate far more of them.

OCTOBER 2008 • Giulio Boccaletti, Markus Löffler, and Jeremy M. Oppenheim

Information Technology, Management Article, How IT can cut carbon emissions

Cognitive Radio

By Radoslaw Piesiewicz (CREATE-NET)

There is evidence that the economic growth of a developed community such as the European Union is strongly related to a growing base of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) resources. The radio part of the ICT is gaining increased shares in voice and broadband data communications with the sophisticated technological developments coming along in recent years. In order to keep the European gross domestic product continuously growing a variety of enabling key applications is required in significant volumes.

Improving Healthcare

Why a Dose of IT May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered

It is time to reinvigorate and renew our national strategy for improving health care through the use of electronic health records and other health IT.

Source: ITIF - THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION

Network Virtualization: a path towards Internet innovation?

Author: Elio Salvadori, Roberto Doriguzzi (CREATE-NET)
Email: name.surname@create-net.org

Abstract: While current Internet seems to face a dramatic crisis due to the extreme ossifications induced by the current world-wide spread architecture, the scientific community is lately pushing toward the adoption of network virtualization techniques to overcome this impasse. In spite of the amount of open-issues which must be properly solved on the research side yet, initial results obtained from preliminary projects on network virtualization are confirming the strong potentiality of this technology. The objective of this article is to emphasize the impact of network virtualization as a tool to foster innovation both on the service and on network infrastructures side.

Institutional Ratings – key trust enablers in the Future Internet

By Mihaela Ion (CREATE-NET), Regis Saint-Paul (CREATE-NET),
Hristo Koshutanski (University of Malaga) and Raffaele Giaffreda (CREATE-NET)

5 Things you didn't know about Nanotechnology

  1. 1/3 of Americans find nanotechnology morally acceptable
  2. Microorganisms can manufacture nanotechnology
  3. Some nanomaterials can self-assemble
  4. You might be wearing nanotechnology right now

  5. Nanotechnology is being used against the Taliban

Don't re-invent the wheel: go for bio!

How nature can help us in building better and more cost-effective networks

Bio-inspired Networking – Challenges and Opportunities

By Dr. Falko Dressler, Univ. of Erlangen

An innovative system to monitoring ice road conditions based on Wireless Sensor Networks

Authors: Mirko Gremes (Algorab) - Antonio Francescon (CREATE-NET)

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are known to be affected by scalability, cost, and maintainability constraints that may limit their applicability in practical applications. This article describes the hands-on experience gained by the authors in developing an innovative solution to a real-life challenge, the remote detection of ice formation on mountain road surfaces. A combination of multihop routing and nomadic routing, together with inferred detection of ice formation, solved the scalability and cost issues. On the other hand, the lessons learned concerning maintainability of the system clearly indicated areas of further improvement for optimizing the services and guaranteeing profitability. 

New Directions for China

Added by Joshua Tong Yu Ee , last edited by Chin Su Yuen on 14 Nov 2008

China
 
The advent of agricultural engineering profession has freed up millions of workers from farms to manufacturing & service industries in developed countries, and facilitate the industrial revolution process. It has accelerated agricultural modernization in less developed countries and will continue to better the living environment and flourishing of the harmonious rural community; The first two decades of this century are of great importance in China's Socio-economic development. China aims to increase the promotion of "Agricultural Engineering Technology Innovation" in realizing its national new development strategy with the goal of speeding up industrialization. They believe that the Agricultural Engineering profession will continue to play an important role for its agricultural modernization and new countryside constructions.

The Next Step in Open Innovation

The next step in open innovation

The creation of knowledge, products, and services by online communities of companies and consumers is still in its earliest stages. Who knows where it will lead?

JUNE 2008 • Jacques Bughin, Michael Chui, and Brad Johnson

In This Article

Exhibit: Twenty-five percent of broadband users in Western Europe post comments and product reviews online

Letters to the editor

Opportunistic Communication Technologies for the Event Industry

By Iacopo Carreras (CREATE-NET)

Spam over Internet Telephony

The fusion of omnipresent telephony and the Internet has brought about Voice-over-IP (VoIP) as a very cost-efficient and location-independent new medium for voice communication. The transfer of telephony functions to the open Internet world also brings about new challenges and threats. The central ones such as call confidentiality and integrity on the level of single data packets have been addressed at an early stage in the design of the VoIP related Internet protocols (SIPS, SRTP, IPSEC). However, it is still possible that major security issues of the Internet 'spill over' to the business-critical telephony functionality.