A significant step towards to a future of mobile has been officially taken at MWC 2010 when Intel and Nokia announced a merge of their Moblin and Maemo into MeeGo – probably the most promising of the existing mobile platforms. And now, just before an official presentation of Nokia N9 – the world's first MeeGo phone, this great news came up:
Yes, Visual Computing, 3D interfaces and 3D Internet have to be available to any web-enabled device, and – essentially – to mobile devices as well.
A nice table developed by Josh Duck I've found recently:
http://joshduck.com/periodic-table.html
And the most recent version of the HTML5
W3C Standard (currently it is the Working Draft) can be found here.
There aren't many tracks of my online activity since there is not much of it due to my busyness – but some still exist. Surprisingly found today that my old comment at MWI Team Blog is still alive:
http://www.w3.org/blog/MWITeam/2008/05/10/mobile_web_initiative_what_s_next
Nothing changed much since time of that comment as for its matter. Despite an effort of the W3C and other authorities, a fragmentation of devices and solutions has even been increased. Google´s Android is a rapidly growing platform that is intended to a large variety of devices, not to (smart)phones only. Microsoft as it seems does not recognise that desktop OS is not intended to tiny devices while their Windows Mobile 7 is far not revolutional. Browsers war continues (there is not any single browser exists at these days that can work properly with a content of 100% sites), and HTML 5 will not have a strong affect on it (since this is not the only technology used for web site development). Even more, in order to solve all the known problems (including those described here) it will require an effort from all the Web stakeholders and coordinated or "followed to the same direction" innovations in Web architecture and device development.
Many new interesting documents released by W3C groups as for the matter (just look above on the same page, then visit Incubator Activity and check deliverables of those groups). A special interest is a result of work of the Device APIs and Policy Working Group, the Semantic Sensor Network Incubator Group, and also the Geolocation Working Group.
Just because I study for so many years that I don't even remember, i still use to count years not by calendar but by educational years. It is also convenient in a sense that by been on summer holidays, one may have more time to revise his projects, activities and information (even that for which there wasn't time during a year).
Thus here's a very short work-related overview of the past year (educational year 2009-2010).
First of all, my laboratory changed to be the Pehr Brahe Center for Industrial and Services ICT. We have also updated our website design:
http://www.pbol.org/
What is important, we have successfully accomplished one of our projects. Then, we also have got a funding for the other one – the same research area; we call it the Ubiquitous Home Environment. There will be something to do for the next two years.
Beside that we expanded our interest to the Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) programme EU activities. Here's our poster:
http://www.aaliance.eu/public/aaliance-conference-1/papers-and-posters/19_poster_oulu-university
presented at AALIANCE Conference. And just recently we have submitted a joint application under the AAL Call 3.
Like always there were many visits to conferences, workshops and meetings, and interesting discussions with many of those people who pushes progress forward, as well as with those who take a part in such the push.
For the first time in my life I kept a small presentation as an invited speaker (my gratitude to you, Philippe Le Parc) – that happened at a regional annual research conference in AberWrach (Bretagne, France). The presentation was about a future of Web.
For the first time I was invited to be a reviewer of one of the international journal's article through Scopus by using EES, Elsevier's online submission and peer-review system.
What was exceptionally interesting in my studying – I've got acquainted with a futurism. This is something I'm excited about – a future anticipation. Now I understand more a spirit of Ray Kurzweil.
Then, plenty of other studies, including essentials of programming for Android, QT (the best available development platform IMHO), and participating to The 1st International UBI Summer School 2010 (Oulu, Finland):
http://www.ubioulu.fi/en/UBI-summer-school-2010
There was an excellent team of invited experts who kept speeches, tutorials and workshops. Thanks to you all, and particularly to you, Timo Ojala, and your team – for organising this school, and to you, Anind Dey – for your great input to our Real World Context-Aware Systems workshop and to me personally.
As for my teaching activities – I introduced to my students an updated program in both of my courses, Java Programming and Mobile and Embedded java Programming. Then, two of proposed self-study courses were accepted for the next year: Introduction to Semantic Web, and Intelligence on the Web.
By been on holydays, I've found a news on some changes in LJ user account management. That has forced me to log into my account there: http://sciagent.livejournal.com/
and make some posts. This all has happened exactly at the time I thought to (at small degree) return back to an online life.
Since the second biggest group of LJ users is Russian-speaking (English-speaking is the largest, but I don't remember a source of that info), I decided to keep all my posts in Russian there.
Thus here I'll continue to post from time to time something in English. I have also an idea of a large project – to retrieve info from my email communications and publish publicly-allowed parts of it. Well, the same and the biggest constraint I have – time – may restrict my performance in such the project.
