#ndemc

As a member of the National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC) team I visited the headquarters of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII) in Youngstown, Ohio on November 8.  We discussed areas and ways in which the two projects might work together. I learned a lot and look forward to following up.

After the meeting, the NAMII team gave us a tour of their facility.  The photo here shows Prof. Darrell Wallace of Youngstown State University, as he describes an inexpensive 3D printer that works in polymer and created the object in his hand.  Darrell leads the workforce and education outreach activities of NAMII.

The US Ignite initiative focuses on applications and services for ultra-fast broadband and software defined networks.  Now our effort to build a foundational service, a reliable real-time protocol, on which any number of services could be built has taken the next step.  A team is formed and our proposal for the Mozilla Ignite Development Round 1 has been submitted.  Read it here.  If this project excites you, please let me know.

In subsequent posts members of the team will write about themselves and their participation in the project.  To get things started, here is a pointer to the US Ignite launch event and remarks by UCLA's Deborah Estrin and myself on why this is so important for advanced manufacturing and the United States.

Cheers,  George