Ubiquitous computing the Media Lab and the CSAIL effort known as Project Oxygen. Other major contributors include University of Washington's Ubicomp Lab (directed by Shwetak Patel), Georgia Tech's College of Computing, Cornell University's People Aware Computing Lab, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, UC Irvine's Department of Informatics, Microsoft Research, Intel Research and Equator, Ajou University UCRi & CUS. One of the earliest ubiquitous systems was artist Natalie Jeremijenko's "Live Wire", also known as "Dangling String", installed at Xerox PARC during Mark Weiser's time there. This was a piece of string attached to a stepper motor and controlled by a LAN connection; network activity
STAND (organization) guide the atrocity prevention movement now and in the future. The organization routinely addresses violence in Burma, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, South Sudan, and Syria. STAND is comparable to Students Against Genocide, an earlier student movement created in response to the Yugoslav Wars. STAND was born out of the movement to stop the genocide in Darfur, Sudan in 2003. Just weeks after President George W. Bush labeled the situation in Darfur "genocide," a group of Georgetown students began to organize their campus community and eventually chose a name for their new group: STAND, an acronym for "Students