ASHBURN, Va. — As the internet of things continues to expand, developers of what will be the region’s first built-from-the-ground-up “smart city” are tapping-into a powerful resource, which helps the ...

Chicago’s program to replace 270,000 city lights over the next four years with LEDs and intelligent controls is a good example of the growing scale and ambition of street lighting projects. This ...

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"Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open source. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

John Holden is the new smart city manager in Raleigh, N.C., and one of his first major projects has been organizing the upcoming 2023 Connected Triangle+ Summit, set for Nov. 9. For decades, that area ...

Anyone looking for Sun Microsystems to relinquish control of Java to the open source community or to join the Eclipse Foundation is likely to be disappointed, based on Java guru James Gosling’s ...

Four years ago, organizers created the international AI City Challenge to spur the development of artificial intelligence for real-world scenarios like counting cars traveling through intersections or ...

The move, planned for Sun's JavaOne conference in San Francisco, acknowledges that the open-source software philosophy is important even in areas such as Java, where Sun has been reluctant to let it ...