The Canberra Times reports to day in “City’s waterside vision revealed” (by JUDITH IRELAND, 11 April 2011, 2011 12:07 PM), that it is proposed to build a $327 million conference centre and hotel complex. I was previously consulted on the design of a hi-tech dialogue centre as part of the development. My suggestion was toRead… Read more »
The NRMA sent me a membership renewal notice. When I went to the web site I was told that I had to have a “profile” set up. When I went to do this, using the details on the renewal notice, I was told these were incorrect. It turned out that the postcode on the NRMARead… Read more »
After a successful pilot, the MBTA is expanding its quiet car program for commuter rail. The agency also upgrade its real-time Rail Radio alerts. Original post
Wired writes about the recent study of Boston and San Francisco commuters showing that better information can encourage people to choose alternative modes. Original post
The Orton Family Foundation’s new Planning Tool Exchange (PlanIt X) is a free, community-driven website designed to help people find and share tools and resources to support community planning and civic engagement. PlanIt X is written by you and for you – contributions, edits, comments and improvements all come directly from our users – andRead… Read more »
Neil Pittaway reports in Asia Pacific Defence Reporter (March 2011) on ” ISR imagery – information overload”. He argues that large amounts of video information from UAVs and other sensor systems are overloading the military communications systems used on a battlefield. He discusses systems such as the Hawklink used by the US Navy to getRead… Read more »
It was a little surprising to find the Austrlaian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) advertising for Information Technology staff via good ad-words advertisements on my web site.Previously Tenix/Navantia advertised aircraft carriers on my web site (as I had a web page about the LHD Ship Project) and the Australian Navy ordered two. Original post
Recently Professor Sylvia Rodger asked for help contacting the IT industry about autism. She was to brief an international autism summit on a Proposal to establish a Cooperative Research Centre on Autism. Key to the proposal is to involve the IT industry in the work. It has been long established that those with Autism SpectrumRead… Read more »
I would enjoy having a lot of unexpected time to myself. I would like to be a couch-potato and catch up on my sleep. I would also watch all of those movies that I have wanted to see but was too busy. I would surf the internet while guzzling copious quantities of bold flavor, highRead… Read more »
On December 9, 2010 the U.S. Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra released a “25 Point Implementation Plan to Reform Federal Information Technology Management.” Many of the points in this plan are consistent with recommendations previously made by ACT-IAC. One of these recommendations, and a major priority in the Administration’s plan, is to improve communications betweenRead… Read more »