Almost two weeks passed since a day I returned back from AAL Forum (Odense, Denmark). A few-pages report is finished, some mailing also (and some is to do) in those short intervals of time I seldom have (what else one can expect?:-) that are not very occupied. So, now I can drop few words of those memories I still have.
Organisation if the forum was very good. Some mess in the beginning (quite typical for such big events), but then – everything went smoothly and nice, great thanks to organisers, particularly to the Region of Southern Denmark.
I've attended to the Track F - Technology, Platforms, Standards, Interoperability. There were many interesting presentations, e.g. about Hydra Middleware Platform, I2HOME User Centric Design approach (worth to consider!), NetCarity, MPOWER, OASIS, PERSONA projects, etc. I consider the universAAL project presented by Joe Gorman from SINTEF, Norway, to be an important achievement of the ICT community (even behind the AAL domain). Many of well-known software platforms from given domain – that were developed under FP6, FP7, and AAL programmes – are considered in this project.
With a purpose to invite community's attention and involvement to their work, universAAL became to be a biggest founder of AALOA (AAL Open Association), which was presented by Francesco Furfari. AALOA is an open and free-to-join non-profit community for discussion of and contribution to AAL development in general and ubiquitous computing in particular. The community is not very big yet, but its ideas are so important that it have all the chances to grow. They have introduced the AALOA Manifesto that has so essential ideas and thus attractive ideas that those. If you are about reducing a number of fragmented and overlapping solutions and saving resources in development of technology platforms for serving people, the AALOA is something worth of attention at least.
It was also a pleasure to hear a speech of an inventor & futurist Ray Kurzweil: progress is exponential, it can be linear only on a short period; what will be a world when you finish a project?; revolutions to come; a role of a community and individuals, Singularity University… A slide-set is available at:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/pps/KurzweilPowerPoint/
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