Varsity Media Group Acquisition Corp, a wholly owned subsidiary of Varsity Media Group Inc, announced that Dr. Lee McKnight, Co-Founder of Wireless Grids Corporation has been awarded along with Syracuse University (Lead) and Virginia Tech (Co-Awardee) a National Science Foundation (NSF) two year grant totaling $600,000.00 for the Wireless Grid Testbed Initiative (WiGiT). This initiative will initially include faculty and students from Syracuse University and Virginia Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tufts University and Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, with plans to include other world leading academic institutions. Dr. Lee McKnight, will be the Principal Investigator of the Initiative along with Dr. Tamal Bose and will include leading researchers in wireless, grid and entrepreneurship fields. Participants and partners at the inception of the project, in addition to the academic institutions, include private sector organizations and corporate partners such as Clear Channel Radio; Qualcomm, Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC); SenSyr LLC; Center for Advanced Engineering & Research, Inc. (CAER); MOD-ECO; and Wireless Grids Corporation (WGC). Governmental and intergovernmental organizations involved in the Testbed project include: Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal; and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, France.
"The expansive collaboration driving this project is truly breathtaking," said Syracuse University Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor. "It transcends disciplines, spans institutions, and crosses sectors--as well as oceans--to bring the best minds together to create game-changing technologies whose impact will be felt worldwide. Catalyzing creativity and innovation in this way is exactly what we aim to do at Syracuse University and we're thrilled that Lee McKnight is spearheading this project." "This NSF funding bears testimony to the exciting, forward-looking research that will be conducted by a stellar team who will be investigating the issues regarding standards that must be addressed to enable the bridging between wireless grids and cloud computing," said iSchool Dean Elizabeth D. Liddy. "Our faculty and students thrive on conducting research on leading-edge technologies and software. We see great potential in the contributions WiGiT can make to society."
The WiGiT will assist in refining transformative technologies to create markets, bridge the gap between wireless network middleware and grid application layers and accelerate commercialization and adoption of new products and services. WiGiT serves industry needs for intra-system, or crossover work bridging the world of grid or cloud computing and wireless Internet, by contributing to open standards and application programming interfaces for wireless grids. The main goal is to evaluate specifications for possible industry standards in order to scale and integrate the transformative innovation of wireless grids developed in a prior PPFR, with specifications and protocols developed in the NSFI/UCRC Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WiCAT), meshed with technologies and ideas from students, faculty and companies worldwide. WiGiT will determine the extent to which wireless grid computing may augment communication networks and standards such as the Internet, Bluetooth, WiFi, WiMax and mobile WiMax for data transmission communication, collaboration, research, and for commercial purposes. WiGiT will test the VMG proprietary "edgeware" software that resides beyond the cloud, across edge networks devices, both wired and wireless.
Keywords: Varsity Media Group, Bluetooth, Communication Network, Computers, Data Transmission, Electronics, Engineering, Networks, Programming Interface, Software, Technology, Wireless Internet, Wireless Network, Wireless Technology.
This article was prepared by Network Weekly News editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2009, Network Weekly News via VerticalNews.com.
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