Today ATIS announced release of its Data Sharing Framework for Smart Cities, which provides recommendations to help Smart Cities develop the robust data sharing ecosystem needed to deliver value from their Smart Cities data. The release marks the launch of an ATIS initiative to engage cities, towns, counties or municipalities of any size in … [Read more...]
Synchronoss Technologies joins AT&T Smart Cities Strategic Alliance
March 4, 2018 By 7 Comments
Synchronoss Technologies has joined the AT&T Smart Cities Strategic Alliance to help transform cities around the world. Its digital and IoT product portfolio and expertise will be leveraged by some of the mobile industry’s biggest names to create productive IoT use cases and clear, tangible business outcomes for global smart cities. We’re … [Read more...]
Call for Papers: Global Tech Jam on Smart Cities in Portland
March 4, 2018 By 1 Comment
The Global Tech Jam conference on Smart Cities has issued its Call for Papers. The event takes place June 20-22 in Portland, Oregon. In collaboration with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Emerging Interest Group (EIG) on Smart Cities and Communities (SCC), we will be hosting a Technical Papers Symposium as part of Tech Jam. This … [Read more...]
Video: Why Build a Smart City?
March 4, 2018 By Leave a Comment
In this video, city planners describe the challenges facing ever-growing urban centers and how the Smart Cities approach will benefit everyone. What if a street light was capable of more than simply illuminating the street? Imagine a lamp post that could help lower civic costs, increase efficiencies, drive economic growth, engage citizens, and … [Read more...]
Exascale to Enable Smart Cities
February 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment
Over at Argonne, Charlie Catlett describes how the advent of Exascale computing will enable Smart Cities designed to improve the quality of life for urban dwellers. Catlett will moderate a panel discussion on Smart Cities at the SC17 Plenary session, which kicks off the conference on Monday, Nov. 13 in Denver. Walk around any city … [Read more...]
HPC Meets Smart Cities at SC17 in Denver
February 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment
We are very excited to present this video live from the SC17 Plenary session on Smart Cities. The Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life for residents using urban informatics and other technologies to improve the efficiency of services. With the accelerating volume of data about cities, HPC is helping cities to optimize … [Read more...]
Sensors, AI, and Storage: Accelerating Smart City Development
February 10, 2018 By Leave a Comment
In this video from the DDN User Group at SC17, Joel Zysman from the University of Miami Center for Computational Science presents: Sensors, AI, and Storage: Accelerating Smart City Development. Joel Zysman is the Director of Advanced Computing for the University of Miami’s Center for Computational Science. Mr. Zysman has been an active … [Read more...]
Interview: ACM Forms Special Interest Group on Smart Cities
February 10, 2018 By Leave a Comment
In this video, Wilf Pinfold from Urban.Systems describes the Smart Cities Emerging Interest Group, a new addition to ACM. What is a Smart City? The way we like to think about it is that bringing technology to make a city more livable, more workable, more enjoyable to live in, it starts to qualify as smart city. Now there are a lot of ways in which … [Read more...]
