Research disclaimers of the week: consulting job, illness, shots, sleep.

Some notes I made this week. (Some of which was spent with none of the below).

keywords / buzzwords / dot com doublespeak / tags / concepts / b.s. / statistically improbable phrases:

• geospatial web
• “mesh.” Why do people keep saying “mesh?” mesh. mesh. mesh.
• motes

things to investigate / misc notes to self:

• IMEI equipment identifier
• KML vs GeoRSS
• Nitrate Sensor cost and canary
• determining structural materials of buildings through their effects on mobile phone radio signals? Like ground penetrating radar/ radar mapping in forensic anthro. reversed at low power, but with a building falling on your head.

things I read:

No specific order, mixed bibliographic formats.

Further reading on Urban Destruction and Recovery. Gaurav Srivastava

Towards Design of Context-Aware Sensor Grid Framework for Architecture. Aqeel-ur-Rehman and Zubair A. Shaikh. Proceedings of World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. Vol 28, April 2008 ISSN 137-6884.

Applying Sensor Grid Computing for Precision Agriculture. Oracle corp. Billy Chiu, Oracle Asia R & D Center.

“Tribes, Institutions, Markets, Networks: A Framework About Societal Evolution.” David Ronfeldt.

Wireless Sensor Networks in Precision Agriculture. Aline Baggio.

Metapolis and Urban Life Workshop Proceedings. Ubiquitous Computing Conference. September 2005.

Me ++: The Cyborg Self and The Networked City. William J. Mitchell. MIT Press 2003.

things to look up:

No specific order, mixed bibliographic formats.

Michael Deer, Nigel Thrift and Derek Gregory. Ground Truth: The Social Implications of Geographic Information Systems (New York: Guilford Press, 1995)

“Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons In The Wild,” Pervasive 2005, LNCS 3468, pp.116-133, 2005.

Kari Laasonen, Mika Raento, and Hannu Toivonen. “Adaptive On-Device Location Recognition,” Pervasive 2204, LNCS 3001, pp.287, 304, 2004.

Daniel Ashbrook and Thad Starner, “Learning Significant Locations and Predicting User Movement With GPS.” Sixth International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC’02) p.0101. also: Personal and Ubiquitous computing, 2004.

Sola Pool, I. de (ed.) 1976, “The Structure of Cities.” The Social Impact of the Telephone, MIT Press.

Akyildiz, I.F. et al. “Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey. Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, 2005.

http://preemptivemedia.net/

E. Paulos and E. Goodman, “The Familiar Stranger: Anxiety, Comfort and Play in Public Places,” ACM SIGICHI, 2004.

W. Zhang, G. Kantor and S. Singh, “Integrated Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks in an Agricultural Application,” in proc. 2nd ACM Int’l Conf. Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys 04), ACM Press. pp 317.

Tapankumar Basu, Vijaya R. Thool, Ravindra C. Thool, and Anjali C. Birajdar, “Computer Based Drip Irrigation Control System With Remote Data Acquisition System,” in proc. 4th World Congress Conf. Computers in Agriculture and Natural Resources, USA, July 2006.

Y. Kim, R.G. Evans, and W. Iversen, “Remote Sensing and Control of Irrigation System using a Distributed Wireless Sensor Network,” IEEE Trans.Insrumentation and Measurement, 2007.

Reyner Banham, Paul Barker, Peter Hall and Cedric Price, “Non-Plan: An Experiment in Freedom,” New Society 13, no. 338 (20 March, 1969):453-43. Reprinted in Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler, eds., Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (Oxford: Architectual Press, 2000).

National Resource Council, The Internet Under Crisis Conditions: Learning From September 11. (Washington, D.C. National Academies Press, 2002.)