Steve was interviewed by CANARIE's newsletter. Each newsletter CANARIE asks a researcher, scientist, or innovator to answer a few questions about what makes them tick. You can find the short interview here: http://www.canarie.ca/templates/about/publications/docs/Connection_2012_...

Our paper titled "Real Time Query Propagation Strategies with Lightweigth Coordination Calculus for Ad Hoc Networks of Geospatial Databases" is accepted by the Journal of Network and Computer Applications published by Elsevier. Congratulations to Dr. Bakillah.

Submit a paper to SWE2012!! This year the workshop will be part of the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2012, to be held on November 6th 2012 at Redondo Beach, California, USA. SWE2012 papers will be part of the ACMGIS 2012 proceedings, and be available in ACM digital library. Abstract due August 3rd and full paper due August 10th 2012. Join us in California this year!!

In order to enable interoperability among Internet of Things devices, a new Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Technical Committee Standards Working Group is being formed. The new SWG is called the Sensor Web interface for the Internet of Things (SWE for IoT) Standards Working Group (SWG). The SWE for IoT SWG should be officially formed in June 2012 at the OGC Technical Committee meeting in Exeter, UK. Anyone who is interested and willing to contribute to such an exciting working group is very welcome to join the discussion.

Our paper titled "Enriched SQWRL Reasoning Engine in Support of Geospatial Data Retrieval from Multiple and Complementary Sources" is accepted by the 6th International Workshop on Semantic and Conceptual Issues in GIS, part of the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2012). The acceptance rate of the workshop this year is 40%.