Edition #7/ May 2011

UPCOMING EVENTS

1. HIGHLIGHT - COPELABS Participates in EU IST FP7 NOVI

Within the context of a partnership with Cisco Systems international, COPELABS participates in the EU IST FP7 project NOVI (Networking innovations Over Virtualized Infrastructures). The NOVI project aims to investigate efficient approaches to compose virtualized e-Infrastructures towards a holistic Future Internet (FI) cloud service. NOVI focuses on methods, information systems and algorithms that will enable users with composite isolated slices, baskets of resources and services provided by federated infrastructures. In NOVI, COPELABS is involved in the definition of inter-federation virtualization management architectures and mechanisms. The team involved in NOVI comprises elements from the Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) team of COPELABS.

IN THIS ISSUE

1. HIGHLIGHT - COPELABS Participates in EU IST FP7 NOVI

2. ArdWorks: New Series of Arduino Hands-on Events

3. EU IST FP7 ULOOP Releases D2.1

4. COPELABS Starts Internal Training on Technology Transfer

2. ArdWorks: New Series of Arduino Hands-on Workshops

ArdWorks is a series of Hands-on Arduino workshops organized by COPELABS, University Lusófona with CoWork Lisboa. The series has as main goal to ignite augmented reality development based on low-cost and user-friendly technology. ArdWorks events are targetted to students, geeks, teachers, or simply people with basic programming skills willing to better deal with immersive technologies.

The ArdWorks 2011 series targets augmented reality environment and comprises 3 events that are expected to boost sinergies in the field, by assisting mingling between international industry (embedded systems and platforms) and entrepreneurs related to immersive technology.

ArdWorks envisions to also be an interest group between academic and industrial parties. Our expectations in relation to such efforts are that coordinated and joint initiatives can assist both students and entrepreneurs in finding new business opportunities and hobbies related to the immersion of a regular citizen with technology. ArdWorks is a joint effort from elements of the Internet Architectures and Networking (IAN) team, the Experimental Facilities for Innovation (EFFI) team.

3. EU IST FP7 ULOOP Releases D2.1

The EU IST FP7 ULOOP has released a first technical deliverable covering the underlying use-case definition. D2.1, entitled "ULOOP Use-cases, Assumptions, and Requirements", provides a set of use-cases with assumptions and requirements which shall be the basis for the remaining work in ULOOP. Constrains, assumptions, and requirements for each use-case are presented.

The .ULOOP project brings in a fresh approach to user-centricity by exploring user-provided networking aspects in a way that expands the reach of a multi-access backbone. ULOOP main expected results are user-centric open-source software and a large-scale realistic demonstrator.

The ULOOP consortium holds a total of 12 partners including 3 operators, 2 access vendors, 1 software house, 4 universities, as well as 1 R&D Laboratory. The project is jointly coordinated by Alcatel-Lucent BellLabs France (Olivier Marcé) with University Lusófona (COPELABS, Informatics Systems and Technologies R&D Unit, Rute Sofia).

2. COPELABS Starts Internal Training on Technology Transfer

Within the context of internal advanced training COPELABS has started a new cycle of technology transfer events. The purpose of these events is to provide COPELABS affiliates with an adequate understanding on how ideas can be turned into reality through projects, patenting, standardization, prototyping.

The series of talks will take place in the context of the weekly IAN meetings (tuesdays 10.30-11.30 a.m. room T01), being directed to Informatics Sciences researchers, students, teachers affiliated to University Lusófona.

Technology transfer aspects to be discussed are expected to provide COPELABS and ULHT affiliates with the tools to learn how to better take advantage of their ideas and ongoing work; understand innovation cycles and the tools available from and R&D perspective; understand better related standardization bodies, technological platforms, alliances, and how to more adequately disseminate results.