RFID is a virus carrier too!

All technology has faults and flaws. RFID is no exception.

"Crawling" the Container

Oracle has shared it's case study on container's movement here. It's technologically impressive.

RFID = Access 2.0 (I like the notion)

It's interesting to equate RFID = Access 2.0 or perhaps (intriguingly) Ambient Intelligence (AmL = Access 2.0). The brief news explained, in a way.

Library RFID Kiosks

This is an interesting development on Library RFID Kiosks. , as BBC reported. In East Asia, HeiTech Padu Berhad (Malaysia) has had the prototype to be commercialised in Malaysia. Now, being packaged as it's suite of products.

22nd Schrodinger Lecture

Imperial College will host the 22nd Schrodinger Lecture. I have made a confirmed reservation to attend. My aim is to study the success and how it sparks other motivations in other areas of technology. The theme is on:

The world's nuclear future: built on material success.

Wallace Lecture at LSE

Being quite an alien to the European Union's history, I attempt to attend the coming Wallace Lecture at LSE next Monday. I look forward to understand the generic ideas so that it could assist my reading and research. Though not focussing that much on law, at least, there might be certain pointers that could be incorporated within my footnote essays (later).

ICC - The Annual Competition Law and Policy Lecture 2009

I will be attending this Competition Talk. I think, some of my reading and literature review (in a way), will touch generally on Competition. In the meantime, I will summarise the previous attended talk in Imperial Business School and this one by this Friday.

Thanks Kadir for letting me know on the Competition Talk.

A Talk by ex-IBM's CTO at Imperial Business School (13/10/09, 17:00-18:00)

I have registered and reserved myself for an interesting talk tomorrow (13 October 2009) at Imperial Business School, to be delivered by:Dr. Irving Wladawsky-Berger, former Chief Technology Officer at IBM,. The topic captivates me to understand how innovation surpasses beyond the time reach and how stakeholders need to be very much responsive. I attempt to anticipate some useful pointers that may surround on issue of technology and regulations (generally). Although it's not a pure legal seminar, I think, it's worthy to look into different perspectives.

The abstract (as totally copied - for notification and educational purpose):

Over the past century, science and technology have been successfully applied to innovation in the industrial sector of the economy, leading to very high productivity and quality, and to the development of highly sophisticated and complex objects like airplanes, skyscrapers and microprocessors.

The services sector comprises between 70 - 80% of the GDP and jobs in advanced economies around the world. Services are ubiquitous across many sectors of the economy, e.g., finance, healthcare, retail, creative industries, business support, education and transportation and logistics. Advances in information technologies have enabled us to bring significant innovation to services and services industries, such as ATMs, reservation systems and supply chain management.

But, we have a long way to go in improving the productivity and quality of services, especially given their large and growing role in advanced, as well as emerging economies. As pointed out in a recent report by the Royal Society (Hidden wealth: the contribution of science to service sector innovation - July 2009), services are not easily visible in the economy, and their nature is not well understood. This makes it difficult for companies, policy makers and universities to support the kind of research and innovation programs in the services sector that have worked so well in the industrial sector.

The seminar will build on the recent Royal Society report. We will explore the differences between "classic" industrial sector innovation and innovation in the services economy. In particular, we will focus on the multi-disciplinary and collaborative nature of services innovation, and the new organizations and leadership structures it requires. We will illustrate the discussion with concrete examples from a variety of industries, including health care, learning, public sector and banking.

IBM Fellowship Awards 2009/2010

This is an interesting call for IBM Fellowship Awards 2009/2010 applications. Unsure whether interdisciplinary law research in RFID, data protection and privacy like what I am researching is eligible. I e-mailed them today and awaiting their revert. Hopefully, it's an okay.

Summer Internship in Berkman Center, Harvard

This is the copied version pasted here:-

Summer Internship Program 2010

For 10 weeks each summer The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University swings opens the doors of its big yellow house to welcome a new group of smart, talented, energetic full-time interns who are passionate about the Internet, democracy, intellectual property, media, politics, and a slew of other things. The interns team up with great projects like the Citizen Media Law Project, Cooperation, Digital Natives, Internet & Democracy, the OpenNet Initiative, StopBadware.org, and more, where they have an opportunity for deep and substantive involvement in our efforts.

Positions are available with most Berkman projects, and we're looking for people with a variety of interests and skill sets. While certain internships are only available to law students, many projects are looking for students enrolled in other types of programs, including undergraduate, graduate and PhD. programs.

Summer internship positions are full time (35 hours/week), and the summer program runs for 10 weeks from June 1 to August 15. While the positions are paid, please be forewarned that stipends may not be sufficient to cover living expenses in the Boston area. No other benefits are provided, therefore interns must make their own housing, insurance, and transportation arrangements.

The word "awesome" has been thrown around to describe our internships, but don't take our word for it. Zack McCune, a summer intern from 2008, had this to say: "it has been an enchanting summer working at the berkman center for internet & society. everyday, i get to hang out with some of the most brilliant people on the planet. we talk, we write (emails), we blog, we laugh, we play rock band. and when things need to get done, we stay late hyped on free coffee and leftover food. it is a distinct honor to be considered a peer among such excellent people. and i am not just talking about the fellows, staff, and faculty, though they are all outstanding. no, i mean my peers as in my fellow interns, who are almost definitely the ripening next generation of changemakers."

We know what you're thinking. Yes please. I want that. That sounds magical. Did I mention I'm really good at "Rock Band"?
Here's what you should do... To apply for a summer internship position, please send by the Friday, March 5, 2010:

a letter of interest, describing your skills and interests, and indicating the area of research and the Berkman projects in which you have interest;
a current version of your resume;
the contact information for two references (professional or academic)
to Berkman's community coordinator, Becca Tabasky, at rtabasky@cyber.law.harvard.edu

Feel free to be in touch if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!!
Summer Intern Eligibility:* Summer interns are students enrolled in a undergraduate, graduate or PhD program of study.* Summer interns do not have to be affiliated with Harvard University.* We welcome summer interns from universities across the world, however we can not pay international students who have not yet received an undergraduate degree.

If you have questions about either academic year or summer internships, please contact Becca .
at the email address above.

I think, I have to start planning on this.