On this anniversary of Cesar's assassination, as our finances hit their nadir and Nick and I celebrate our voyage at the zenith of high altitude skiing, here are a few of the accomplishments that happened thanks to technology unimaginable just a few years ago, but more importantly thanks also to the wonderful partnerships that I am so fortunate to be involved with all around the world...- Kyle and I have submitted our application for uScript to be part of Google Summer of Code. He was in Halifax, Nova Scotia and I was somewhere in Kansas when this happened...
- Andrea Mancuso and Alberto Gallo are helping Ginny Mason complete a spread for an upcoming National Geographic magazine article about Venice which will cite the Venice Project Center and Forma Urbis
- Redfish and I have submitted a short proposal to the City of Boston's CIO Bill Oates and his chief technology guru Nigel Jacobs to explore porting our pothole mapper (recently cited by an MIT paper) to Android and the Google Phone
- Under Steve Guerin's supervision, Tyler White in Santa Fe has revamped the energence web site using joomla, making Adrian Hewitt very happy
- Chris Murray has created version 2.0 of the Venice 2.0 site, which includes this blog
- Meanwhile Saul Farber has fixed the error 400 problem that had plagued our Word Press sites (preservenice too) for months, despite valiant efforts by Chris Murray, Tim Navien and Andrea Mancuso to resolve the issue
- Kyle and I have begun the process of collaborating with WPI's Admissions and Marketing departments who have expressed the desire to include the Venice Project Center in the next Viewbook WPI sends out to perspective students
- Official notice was sent out about the awarding of $137,749 for my contribution to the three-year NASA research project entitled Digital Earth Watch (DEW). The first workshop is already planned for April 23 and 24 at the University of New Hampshire. Steve Guerin and I will be flying up from Santa Fe for the occasion
- With a three-way (Limon, CO+Boston+Venice) skype conference call, we have resumed the preparation for the Venice Mashup Camp in September. The current plan is to have Google as the main sponsor, in collaboration with UNESCO, highlighting the usefulness of mashups in the context of the preservation of World Heritage Sites, using Venice as the model for a global extension of the concept
- Plans for my participation in a roundtable on April 16 at the Clark Museum at Williams college, with, among others, the curator of the current Venice exhibit at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Frederick Ilchman, were finalized.
- My good friend and colleague Prof. Nicholas DeMonchaux of Berkeley invited me to participate in a joint research effort with the Univ. of Architecture in Venice. We are finalizing the grant application this week...
Not bad for a week on the road! These are just some ideas for the ides of March. More on each later!
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