Any Chatter from URI?

Posted on October 10th, 2007, by Brian

Rhode Island Tech Advice

I notice numerous events and discussions involving Brown every week but I never see anything from URI. What is URI up to? Lectures? Spinoffs? Interesting research not quite at the angel investment stage?

Comments

bjepson

Submitted on October 11th, 2007 - 10:04am link

Great question, Brian. I'm going to look into getting some information about URI out to folks, because there is lots of cool stuff going on. I'll pick a few brains down here in Kingston and see what I can turn up!

JudyHe

Submitted on October 12th, 2007 - 10:15am link

Yes please! I'd like to see more URI events/etc as well (and the other schools too of course) but I'm not as familiar with all the nooks on the URI web that they may use to promote them. And if it's not on the web, it's like it doesn't exist. :)

ilikepi

Submitted on October 12th, 2007 - 3:30pm link

Coincidentally, there was an event announcement yesterday...here's the beginning of the press release:

"KINGSTON, R.I. – October 12, 2007 – The University of Rhode Island will host a public forum to discuss the results of a report on the feasibility of establishing a research and technology park adjacent to URI’s Kingston campus. The forum will be held Tuesday, Oct. 16 at 2:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the URI Memorial Union."

http://www.uri.edu/news/releas...

The post to the URINEWS mailing list yesterday was the first I'd heard of it.

JudyHe

Submitted on October 12th, 2007 - 4:02pm link

sweet, thanks for the heads up! It sounds interesting especially as I've been seeing all those articles lately about URI's tech exploits. (ex: http://rinexus.com/news/987/ur...)

I posted it on the calendar too (http://rinexus.com/calendar/14...).

aktear

Submitted on October 16th, 2007 - 11:41pm link

There is some cool ocean technology stuff coming out of URI spinoffs, involving sensor work and autonomous vehicles.

ORCAS Net, which is a sensor array in the bay, and SubChem's work on autonomous underwater vehicles with onboard chemical sensors are the two that spring to mind. I'm sure there are others.

Also, Bob Ballard's Inner Space Center is a big experiment in telepresence, pulling in video and data feeds from scientific surface ships and subs across the world, then relaying, or store-and-forwarding them, to high schools, colleges, aquariums, and other learning centers.