{"id":3616,"date":"2009-04-27T12:12:51","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=3616"},"modified":"2009-04-27T12:12:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T17:12:51","slug":"cool-technology-development-at-the-u-of-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/cool-technology-development-at-the-u-of-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool technology development at the U of M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I pulled up the University of Memphis&#8217; site to look at their academic calendar, and they had a very interesting article linked from the home page.\u00a0 Their computer science department, where I got my Master&#8217;s degree, has developed a product called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphis.edu\/releases\/mar09\/autowitness.htm\">AutoWitness<\/a>, which is a device smaller than a penny that can be attached to a car or pretty much any other valuable piece of property.\u00a0 AutoWitness is smart enough to know the difference between normal motion, as would be carried out by the property&#8217;s owner, and motion that suggests the property is being stolen.\u00a0 It can notify the police of the theft, and update police computers with its location.\u00a0 Very very cool.\u00a0 MPD is very interested in it and it should be deployable within a year, retailing for somewhere in the range of $10 to $20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I pulled up the University of Memphis&#8217; site to look at their academic calendar, and they had a very interesting article linked from the home page.\u00a0 Their computer science department, where I got my Master&#8217;s degree, has developed a product called AutoWitness, which is a device smaller than a penny that can be &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/cool-technology-development-at-the-u-of-m\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cool technology development at the U of M&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3616\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->