WiGiT project led by McKnight recognized for its innovative distributed experimental testbed of campuses, companies, and communities, and virtual grid technology research and open specifications.

TACNY Award - Best Technology Project

Recognized by industry and peers as - professor of year.

Massachusetts Telecom Professor of Year

Syracuse University School of Information  Studies

Wireless Grids Corporation

Summerhill Biomass Systems

Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT)

Enterprise Cloud Leadership Council - TM Forum

More than fifty years ago, Joseph Schumpeter stated that processes intrinsic to a capitalist society produce a "creative destruction," whereby innovations destroy obsolete technologies, only to be assaulted in turn by newer and more efficient rivals. This book asks whether the current chaotic state of the telecommunications and related Internet industries is evidence of creative destruction, or simply a result of firms, governments, and others wasting valuable resources with limited benefits to society as a whole. In telecommunications, for example, wireless, IP, and cable-based technologies are all fighting for a share of the market currently dominated by older, circuit-switched, copper-terminated networks. This process is accompanied by mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, and investment and divestment in worldwide markets.The selections discuss the primary challenge facing firms, governments, and other players: how to exploit the opportunities created by such destructive dynamics. They highlight the importance of national regulations promoting competition and nonmonopolistic market structures, as well as the role of new technologies such as the Internet in driving down the price and speeding the diffusion of innovative products and services in telecommunications, media, electronic retailing, and other "new economy" industries.

Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy

The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts to establish such metrics.The chapters, which developed out of a 1995 workshop held at MIT, include architectural models and analyses of Internet usage, as well as alternative pricing policies. The book is organized into six sections: 1) Introduction to Internet Economics, 2) The Economics of the Internet, 3) Interconnection and Multicast Economics, 4) Usage Sensitive Pricing, 5) Internet Commerce, and 6) Internet Economics and Policy.Contributors : Loretta Anania, Joseph P. Bailey, Nevil Brownlee, David Carver, David Clark, David W. Crawford, Ketil Danielsen, Deborah Estrin, Branko Gerovac, David Gingold, Jiong Gong, Alok Gupta, Shai Herzog, Clark Johnson, Martyne M. Hallgren, Frank P. Kelly, Charlie Lai, Alan K. McAdams, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Lee W. McKnight, Gennady Medvinsky, Liam Murphy, John Murphy, B. Clifford Neuman, Jon M. Peha, Joseph Reagle, Mitrabarun Sarkar, Scott Shenker, Marvin A. Sirbu, Richard Jay Solomon, Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Dale O. Stahl, Hal R. Varian, Qiong Wang, Martin Weiss, Andrew B. Whinston.

Internet Economics

Internet telephony is the integration and convergence of voice and data networks, services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to digital data, send it over available networked channels, and then convert it back to voice output. Traditional circuit-switching networks such as telephone lines can be used together with packet-switching networks such as the Internet, thereby merging communication modes such as email, voice mail, fax, pager, real-time human speech, and multimedia videoconferencing into a single integrated system. Because Internet telephony allows the interchangeable and seamless use of phones, computers, personal digital assistants, TV cables, wireless, and Web technology, myriad combinations become possible.The transformation of the Internet from a network application using phone lines to a general communications infrastructure through which voice is but one of many data types offered has a wide impact on applications, architectures, networks, economics, public policy, industry structures, regulation, and service providers. This book explores these and other issues, and considers future scenarios as Internet telephony continues to alter the communications landscape.Contributors David D. Clark, Daniel Fryxell, William Lehr, Brett Leida, Terrence P. McGarty, Lee W. McKnight, Philip Mutooni, Husham Sharifi, Marc S. Shuster, Marvin Sirbu, David Tennenhouse, Kanchana Wanichkorn, Jonathan Weinberg.

Internet Telephony

The Gordian Knot: Political Gridlock on the Information Highway

National innovation systems model tehory also applied to regional entrepreneurial ecosystem development.

Recognized by World Bank InfoDev program.

Innovating Nations and Regions

Argues that wireless grids will play a key role in the future of the Internet, challenging conventional expectations on a future not defined merely by bandwidth, but also be persistent virtual relationships among machines. New open policy implications of wireless grids are also explored.

The Future  of the Internet is Not the Internet

Lee W. McKnight has led academe, industry and government to rethink the relationship between people, their devices, and the networks around them. The wireless grid is an audacious new vision for enabling private and secure distributed resource sharing, from cloud to edge. 

McKnight is practicing what he has taught and written, the creative destruction of existing industries and practices as information technologies and services recognize their abilities to serve human and social needs, at all times and in any location.

McKnight is the inventor of edgeware, a new class of software designed to work across all edge devices, and the founder of Wireless Grids Corporation, where he remains on the board of directors; and is a founding board member of Summerhill Biomass Systems, an alternative energy firm of equally astounding ambition and potential. 

When not engaged in information research, peer-reviewed journal article publication, innovation and entrepreneurship, Professor McKnight may be found in Hinds Hall at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies, teaching classes in information policy in the #1-ranked (according to US News & World Report) program in information systems.

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TPRC2010_Wireless_Grids_or_Personal_Infrastructure_Implications.pdf

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Social Emergency Response

Edgeware

Creative Destruction

Byod and Workplace as A Service

Virtual Markets and Wireless Grids

Social Radio

School of Information Studies  Syracuse University

WiGiT - National Science Foundation Partnerships for Innovation Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed

TEDxHarlem, Living Labs Foundation

SU WiGiT Lab

Academia.edu

Researchgate.net

The WiGiT Group, a new open specifications organization for edgeware wiglets and cognitive radio, will launch its WiGiT Version 1.0 Open Specifications at TEDxHarlem March 27, 2012 at the Apollo Theater.

Wireless Grids Innovation Testbed (WiGiT)

The PSTN has seen its day come, and go. Regulatory policies to prop up and extend the life of the PSTN are misguided. Future Internet-centric networks should be welcomed, by regulators and industry.   

Lee McKnight

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The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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