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Sharing Is Not Always An Easy Thing – Federal-Commercial Spectrum Data Workshop

I have been asked to facilitate a workshop which will attempt to move the dialog along about spectrum sharing.  The workshop will be all day October 21st at the National Science Foundation

It is one of the action steps that resulted from President Obama’s Memorandum on “Unleashing the Wireless Broadband Revolution”, further discussed in a report produced by the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in July, 2012.

Over the last few months I have been meeting with members of the Wireless Spectrum Research & Development Senior Steering Group (WSRD SSG) to help plan the workshop. It has been a pretty exciting opportunity for me to work with such a talented and smart group of people. In addition I have learned much about the issues that need to be dealt with to make more spectrum available.

Sharing Is Not Always An Easy Thing – Federal-Commercial Spectrum Data Workshop

Everything Without Wires

One of the great things about teaching classes is how much one learns from the students.

I have been teaching a capstone graduate class at the University of Maryland University College, UMUC, http://www.umuc.edu/, about the Management of Technology and Innovation for a number of years. One of the running threads culminating in a discussion in the last session (which ended yesterday) relates to future technologies.

One of the threads this year focused on wireless technologies. One of the students linked to a product called Twine from a company called Supermechanical, http://supermechanical.com/. Twine is basically a sensor box, with some coming standard built-in and some requiring additional purchase and snap-on.Everything Without Wires