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Thursday, October 17, 2002
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Discussions during MnFuturists' SIG-Lunch suggested reviewing *new ways* to apply following:

 
MIT: Aug 2002 Technology Review (pp. 74-79 ) "Demo"
 
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Data to the Rescue

Innovation   By Kevin Hogan    April 2002

New software tools may improve communication during catastrophic events.

When there’s a major catastrophe, whether it’s a terrorist attack or an earthquake, reliable information can be as vital as blood supplies.
 
To aid emergency workers, a team from the State University of New York at Buffalo is developing software tools that should make getting that information—and making sense out of it—much easier.

Reinforces "Operation Dark Winter"

Requires "PSWN & Wireless Protection"

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Geographically-dispersed devices; each device with a url;
    Use *SurfGear* for scanning across URLs (devices)
    to (help operators) identify patterns or exceptions.

FYI - This supports evolving GIS & GPS-based
    applications of Seattle "Scenario Spinning" Art!

Maybe a remote Digital Neighborhood Watch?

""But even more pertinent in the post-September 11 era,
   the package of video-processing and 3-D modeling technologies
   delivering these tricks promises to set a new standard
   for *surveillance and security systems* — and
   bring new meaning to the term “reality programming.”

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WSDOT Excerpts:
Welcome to the "Puget Sound Area Traffic Cameras" website,
brought to you by Washington State Department of Transportation.

This page provides access to both *snapshots and video clips* from many
of the cameras located along the major freeways in the Puget Sound area.

Q: Do you have any questions about our site?

Q: Check out our Question and Answer page,
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Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 9:29 AM

Subject: Update on MIT-DARPA BioSphere
               Monitoring for Homeland Defense?

AFA Supporters - Discussions during MnFuturists' Sat-AM
    lunch suggested reviewing *new ways* to apply following:
 
MIT: Aug 2002 Technology Review (pp. 74-79) "Demo"
    @ http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/sec.asp
 
        This supports inter-regional updates from "feeds" for
        ACCTTS Leadership Learning Collaboratory (LLC)
        which are *unfunded* by any www.MnInfraGard.org 
        information-sharing initiatives for *Academic* sector!
 
----- Original Message -----
 
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 7:24 AM
 
Subject: MIT-DARPA BioSphere Monitoring for Homeland Defense?

Ahoy "MSP-InfraGard" Inter-Regional Collaborators -

My sharing of appended UH-Manoa "insights" was
    prompted by US District Attorney Tom Hefflefinger's
    remarks about *porous nature* of Minnesota's northern
    border at www.rawlings-afa.org Symposium yesterday.

These insights were enhanced by further F2F discussions
    with UTSA's Gregory White/PhD about adapting
    "Operation Dark Winter" Bio-Terrorism scenarios
    for *Community Impact Assessment Workshops*

Also attached are self-directed www.MnFuturists.org
        trends I've tracked for tech-transfer opportunities!

    Att-1: ANCL_GED_WirelessWAN.htm

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 8:54 PM
Subject: UH-Manoa's Remote Ecological
               Micro-Sensor Network

> ========================================
>     I got previews of ANCL's DARPA-funded PODS R&D
>     program at UH-Manoa designed for remote environmental
>     monitoring during my *Jan-2001 island-hopping* visit.
>
> Some of the Norman, OK Climate Survey / Mesonet Research
>     could adapt UH-Manoa's *wireless remote devices*
>     for Homeland Defense *bio-terrorism monitoring!*
>
> ===============================
> A Remote Ecological Micro-Sensor Network
>     ... Collaborated with a DARPA-funded project
>     at MIT ...  FY-2002 Plans: Complete the design ...
>     for the final version of the pods. ...
>     Brian Chee UH/ICS 1680 East-West Road ...
>     @ http://dtsn.darpa.mil/ixo/psum2001/K255-0.html
>
> Kim Bridges
>     ... PODS. PODS is a DARPA-sponsored project
>     with Edo Biagioni and Brian Chee as Co-PIs ... Courses.
>     Fall 2001. Botany 606, Graduate Research Skills. Spring 2002. ...
>     @ www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/bridges/default.htm
>
> Edoardo S. Biagioni -- Guide to Research
>     ... in Volume 16, Number 3, Fall 2002. ...
>     S. Biagioni, KW Bridges, Brian JS Chee. ...
>     Information Technology program, and funded
>     by DARPA ... http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/pods
>     Via  http://www2.ics.hawaii.edu/~esb/tenure/guide.html
>
> =========
> 2002 Annual
>     ... PM, 7.1, FX-NET USE TO SUPPORT THE 2002 ...
>     DISSEMINATION OF *SOIL MOISTURE DATA* FROM
>     OKLAHOMA MESONET. ... Oklahoma Climatological Survey,
>     Norman, OK; and JM Thomale ...
>     @ http://ams.confex.com/ams/annual2002/AWIPS/program.htm
>
> J9.14 The quality assurance and dissemination of soil moisture ...
>     ... Gary D. McManus, Jessica M. Thomale, and Kenneth C ...
>     Historical archives and real-time Mesonet *soil moisture data* ...
>     and IIPS) 8:30 AM, Thursday, January 17, 2002. ...
>     @ http://ams.confex.com/ams/annual2002/techprogram/paper_28529.htm
>
> The Oklahoma Mesonet - Publications
>     ... McManus, GD, JM Thomale, and KC Crawford. 2002.
>     The Quality Assurance and Dissemination
>     of *Soil Moisture Data* from the Oklahoma Mesonet. ...
>
> One of the lessons we learned, and perhaps the biggest challenge
>     we face, is that the state of soil moisture knowledge is in flux.
> As the research community receives and analyzes the data, improvements
>     are made upon the (data) *quality assurance* and coefficients.
> In turn, these improvements require implementation
>     of the dissemination process.
>     @ http://okmesonet.ocs.ou.edu/publications/
> + + +

HIPAA Tech Articles
... Will health databases spot bioterror attacks?
... Complaints by Brian Krebs, Newsbytes.com,
January 23, 2002 ... Vendors Demo
Private E-Mail Solution in HealthKey ...
@ www.hipaadvisory.com/tech/articles.htm

Also ENTER: Healthkey Bioterrorism 2002
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