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...into his combine, pulls a lever and sits back as the lumbering machinery crashes into a 40-acre cornfield. As the front of the machine noses through the furrows like 13 red moles, chomping at the stocks and churning ears into grain, Mitchell checks his e-mail on a wireless laptop, downloads the moisture content of corn being stored...
...agricultural experts buzzing and farmers considering what might be. "Clay Mitchell is probably the most progressive farmer I've ever met," says Tony Grift, assistant professor in the agricultural and biological engineering department at the University of Illinois. While researchers have been studying for years how technologies such as wireless networks and the global-positioning system (GPS) could be suited to farm work, Grift says Mitchell, 31, is one of the first independent farmers to put them to use: "Clay is bringing it all together...
With time to spare in the cab, Mitchell decided to turn his tractor into a rolling office. In 2002, he established a wireless network for the farm using specialized 2.4-GHz NavCom Safari Network radios for high-speed Internet access. As a result, Mitchell can surf the Web for weather conditions and stock prices and download aerial images from anywhere on the farm. Because the network also provides a mechanism for remote machine monitoring and controlling, he can check on his grain bins to see how the product is drying and even make transfers from miles away. "Last fall, someone...
...launching of the music library is a major technological coup, in addition to the previously announced deployment of extended wireless access in Houses by next fall and the new digitization collaboration with Google. These projects will result in tangible benefits for students and faculty. Harvard is on the right track with these developments and should continue pushing the envelope to become a campus on the cutting edge of technology...
...think expanding wireless to all houses is a brilliant idea,” Sewit Teckie ’05, co-chair of the Quincy House Committee, wrote in an e-mail. “It allows students flexibility in their use of computers...