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Steve is attending the AITF Tech Summit 2011

Steve is attending the AITF Tech Summit 2011 in Banff. This is the first time Steve attending the AITF event, and this is also the first year he receives the AITF-Microsoft Scholar in Open Sensor Web. Banff looks awesome in late August, and the summit programme looks great too. Looking forward to the two days event.

Alec presented the LOST-Tree demo paper at SSTD2011

SWE2011 Paper Accepted

Our research paper titled "Design and implementation of a system for the improved searching and accessing of real-world SOS services" was accepted by Workshop on Sensor Web Enablement 2011 (SWE2011).  SWE2011 will be held at Banff, Canada from October 6~7 2011. SWE2011 received 15 submissions, and 6 full papers were accepted (40% acceptance rate). A list of the accepted paper titles are available online here.

SWE2011 is part of the Cybera Summit 2011 programme.

GeoSensor Web Lab members attended Microsoft Research Open Data for Open Science Workshop

Back in April, Shawn, Alec, David and Steve visited Microsoft Research and attended an workshop titled "Open Data for Open Science - Developer Training Workshop".  It was great to go Bellevue/Redmond for couple reasons. First, it was VERY cold in Calgary in April. Second, Bellevue has great Taiwanese food...yummy... and of course, third, the workshop was great.


Steve interviewed by Taiwan's SET-TV

Taiwan's SET-TV interviewed Steve. The interview was in Mandarin, and held at Canadian Trade Office in Taipei.  It was quite fun because I could feel that the Albertan government representative was pretty nervous when I talked about how "dirty" is the Alberta oil sand in front of TV....


Steve in Alberta Venture (2011 July Issue)

Steve received a junior research chair titled "AITF-Microsoft Scholar on Open Sensor Web", and the news was featured in the Alberta Venture July issue.


New GeoCENS data: Arctic Ice and Prairie Soil

Our summer intern students have been busy this summer!!  Two new sensor web datasets online now: Arctic Ice and Prairie Soil.  More to come!  You can find more details in this Cybera blog post. Or see the data using GeoCENS sensor web browser yourself.  Not enough?  Need an OGC SOS endpoint?  Here is the

Kananaskis Field Station Annual Open House 2011

We are presenting our research at the Kananaskis Field Station Annual Open House 2011 on July 17th. Sunday, July 17, 2011, 10 AM to 4 PM. Driving direction click here.

Steve is attending the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2011 in Redmond, WA

Steve visited several Universities in Taiwan

Steve visited Taiwan, gave talks and lectures in several universities, including National Chiao-Tung University, National Taiwan University, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan GIS Centre, and Feng-Chia University.


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