The news office at MIT reports that “Information Services & Technology installed the last of 2,800 wireless access points,making the MIT campus one of the largest geographic entities,about 9.4 million square feet,served by a single wireless network.Blanket wireless service is reason enough to celebrate on a campus where most of the 10,000 students own laptop computers and many work into the not-so-wee hours of the morning.IS&T and the MIT Museum are commemorating the achievement with an exhibition called “iSpots,” which features three electronic real-time maps of campus wireless use projected onto large Plexiglas rectangles that appear to float in the room.”Laptops and WiFi are creating a revolutionary change in the way that people work,” said Carlo Ratti, architect and director of the SENSEable City Lab in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. “iSpots aims to visualize these changes by monitoring the traffic on the wireless network and showing how people move around campus.”The maps provide quantitative evidence that people on the campus really are using WiFi nearly 24 hours a day.I suspect that MIT today represents the world of the future in this regard,” said Ratti”.

Museum exhibit shows this wireless campus never sleeps

The news office at MIT reports that “Information Services & Technology installed the last of 2,800 wireless access points,making the MIT campus one of the largest geographic entities,about 9.4 million square feet,served by a single wireless network.Blanket wireless service is reason enough to celebrate on a campus where most of the 10,000 students own laptop [...]