Computing Community Consortium Blog

The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.


Archive for November 15th, 2011

 

“Today, the Internet — Tomorrow, the Internet of Things?”

November 15th, 2011 / in research horizons, Research News / by Erwin Gianchandani

An feature in Computerworld last week takes an in-depth look at the “widely predicted Internet of Things (IoT), where anything with intelligence (including machines, roads, and buildings) will have an online presence, generating data that could be put to uses currently unimagined.” From the article: Dave Evans, chief futurist at Cisco… predicts 50 billion connected devices by 2020, and social networks to connect them. “In the coming years, anything that has an on-off switch will be on the network,” he says. “I foresee it in just about every industry and stream of life.”   The deluge has already begun.   “There are several industries where [the Internet of Things] is happening, and some […]