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FIRE week 2010: the research world in the Internet of the Future

The Internet is much more than a communication system. All over the world, the Internet is increasingly becoming the backbone of modern economy and society. FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) has as its main objective the promotion of a creative space and a multidisciplinary research environment for investigating and experimentally validating innovative and revolutionary ideas for the development of new networks and service paradigms. FIRE promotes competitive research from a cross-sectional view, academic as well as industrial.

29 june 2010

In this context, more than 200 experts will meet on the campus of the Communication-Poblenou of the University of Pompeu Fabra (UPF) on June 30 to July 1 to celebrate the FIREweek 2010, a conference organized jointly by the European Commission and the Research Group of Technologies and Telecommunication Strategies (NETS) of the Department of Information Technology and Communications (DTIC).

The plenary session will be chaired by Louis McNally, vice provost of research at the UPF, who will welcome the University authorities. Then there will be a development of a substantial program, including the demonstration and results achieved in NETS as well as the contributions of other research groups working in the Internet of the Future in Catalonia.

During the event, first there will be a presentation of the new projects which are under implementation, all funded by the European Commission, followed by the sharing of the technical and scientific aspects of the program as well as setting future lines in the Internet sector.

The NETS research group works on the open user innovation

NetsHenry Chesbrough, of the University of California at Berkeley in the U.S., is the architect of the Open Innovation concept, a term that has marked a trend and part of the idea that businesses alone can not cover the entire innovation process and that they should rely on external resources.

The NETS research group, in close collaboration with members of ESADE Business School, pioneering experts on topics of open innovation, studies the behavior of users, along with public and private companies, with technological applications and thereby extract information crucial to evolving technology according to the needs of the productive sector.

The NETS research group, coordinated by Professor Miquel Oliver, is currently accumulating data and working on what is called “the future of the Internet,” particularly in Europe and competitive projects related to the development of sensors and mobile applications. This team of researchers is studying how to fit the themes of open innovation to the technological environments of sensor networks in all areas of society.

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