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Wireless Grids Corporation

Director – Lee McKnight
Location – Center for Science and Technology 2-218
Phone number – 315-443-6891
Email – lee@wgrids.com
 
Mission:
The Virtual Markets and Wireless Grids project investigates the tremendous value proposition that wireless grid networks offer to both increase access to wireless communication services, and to develop new economic sectors utilizing ubiquitous networks to access grid services. The research takes place through the TeleCom City University Consortium which brought together academic researchers and commercial partners such as BTexact Technologies, Cisco System, Novell, French Telecom (Dr. Norman Lewis) and Hitachi (Mitsuo Yamaguchi). The first segment of this project took place through the NSF PFI project, entitled “Virtual Markets in Wireless Communication and Computation Grids.”
 
Projects:
  • Innovaticus beta trial in SU residence hall
    • McKnight and his young company, Wireless Grids Corporation, are testing out their new wireless grids software on SU students living in Boland Hall. This new software enables collaboration and sharing of files and hardware using a variety of devices across different networks: Bluetooth, Wimax, Wi-Fi, etc. Students will be able to share files, speakers, printers, cameras, and screens.
Library Game Lab of Syracuse

The Game Lab explores the intersection of games and libraries, providing advice to librarians about the most appropriate gaming activities for different demographic groups and library goals as well as advice to the gaming industry about the needs of libraries and schools regarding gaming.
StudyResponse Center for Online Research

The StudyResponse project facilitates online research for behavioral, social, and organizational science researchers by distributing e-mail participation requests to adult research participants. The project accumulates the characteristics and outcomes across research studies in order to explore the features of studies that encourage quality responding.