Instructor:_Yury_Gitman yury@nycwireless.net

Students in Bryant Park, one of the first open wireless parks on the planet!
[from left to right, top to bottom: Arly-Rose, Naiying, Scott, Karen, Alison, Erin, Rome, Ankita, Sabrina, and Jeremy (not present)]

"A life without a cause is a life without effect." -Barbarella

Barring bad weather, the Downtown Alliance, Emenity, Inc., and city officials from Parks and the NYC Economic Development corporation will launch the Lower Manhattan Wireless Network at 11am Thursday morning in City Hall Park by conducting a Wi-Fi enabled meeting in the park!
Any and all are invited to the park to show NYCwireless' support for the project and possibly get interviewed by several TV crews / reporters that will be there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3012769.stm

But as far back as 1983, a band of pioneers started using electronic networks to communicate, share information and work more efficiently.

No, not Silicon Valley geeks, nor US military scientists - but ordinary French people, long derided as the worst of technophobic old Europe.

Minitel, France's precursor to the internet, is 20 years old, and rumours of its demise have repeatedly proved exaggerated.

Indeed, Minitel may be about to come of age.

New York City's New Museum "Living Inside the Grid" program is presenting a symposium this Saturday, May 3, 10:30-6:00 at The Great Hall, between Third and Fourth Avenues at Seventh Street, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Featuring, among other exhibits and presentations, wireless art (wireless bike by Yuri Gitman, wireless wearables by Susan Kozel, one of the first GPS-based urban studies by architect Laura Kurgan). Anyone within range of the MagicBike will have wireless Internet access via laptop or PDA.

One of the best conferences of the year, the Oreilly Emergeing Technology Con (formly the Peer to Peer Con)
and with it comes Emergeing Man, the party and camp site.