This entry is cross posted from my TSSG blog.
I have found it hard to keep a handle on all the Internet based research happening in Ireland so I jumped at the chance to participate in the recent SFI workshop on the Future Internet. It proved to be a fantastic opportunity to catch up with old aquaintancies and to meet some new researchers in the field.
Now the topic line is a little controversial in that the term Future Internet now means many things to many people however what’s good about the term is that it can act as a nice umbrella term to capture the massive shift in Internet research which is looking for new ways to move, share, find, define and create digital information. Whether this information is for use in Education, Health , Finance Marine or even Agricultural services it was great to see the wealth of situations to which Irish research was being applied to.
To set the context for day early presentations in the workshop highlighted the meaning of the future Internet, the new architectures being discussed at the EU level and some perspectives on the European Future Internet Assembly.
I gave an overview presentaion on this topic, and my slides can be seen here.
Then in ernest a volley of 10 minute presentations were given by
- Willie Donnelly on “Why the Future Internet?”
- Stefan Decker on “From Linked Data to Networked Knowledge” and “Real-World Internet (FIA)”.
- John Kennedy on the “Future Internet – An Intel Perspective”.
- Pol Mac Aonghusa on “IBM Smart Cities”.
- John Holland on the “Ericsson view”.
- Keith Griffin on the “Cisco view”.
- Fergal Ward on the “Intune view”.
- Barry Smyth on “The Sensor Web”.
- Ronan Farrell on the “CTVR Future Internet activities”.
- Mike Hinchey on “Lero and FI”.
- Barry O’Sullivan on “4C Future Internet activities”.
- Steve Gotz on “CNGL and FI”.
- Padraig Cunningham on “Clique and FI”.
- Martin Johnsson on “FAME and FI”.
- David Malone on th “Hamilton Institute Future Internet activities”.
- Brendan Jennings on “FI Dagstuhl 2011”.
All the slides can be picked up off this SFI FI workshop page.
I found the format perfect 10 mins meant people had to get to point quickly while at the same time give an impression of the depth of research and it has to be said some very interesting solutions are being investigated in Irish research organisations.
Next up was a presentation by the Marine Institute with some use cases to which only Future Internet technologies could be applied. What followed was some discussion on other use cases which would be applicable, and I gave a presentation on upcoming FI PPP use case.
I usually find that the next steps for this type of event are left hanging in the wind however in this case it couldn’t be further from the truth as plans are now afoot for a broader workshop to take place in Q2 of 2011.