Through its collaborative Web developmentproject with Sun, the IWT will rebuild the technology behind Borg's 12-year-old Systers.org virtual community to extend the community to all technical and scientific women's support and mentoring groups.
These strands came together in 1999 in the Cyberport project, a property development disguised as an information-technology initiative, negotiated with the Pacific Century Group of Li Ka-shing, the most redoubtable of Hong Kong tycoons.
This work includes results from the "Normally-off Computing" project funded by Japan's NEDO (New Energy and Industrial TechnologyDevelopment Organization).
As a member of the technology-based economic development community in Northeast Ohio, I am excited about what this project could mean for secure, domestic energy production.
While Huber knew next to nothing about wireless technology when he took on Project Beacon, he did know that any successful wireless product-development cycle would have to move much, much faster than the usual automotive life cycle.