The San Antonio Catholic University (UCAM) inaugurated this morning the Smart Campus.
Organized by the degree in Telecommunications, this summer course aims to bring the most innovative technologies younger students as well as professionals and companies in the region.
At the opening ceremony the rector intervened Research;
Estrella Nunez;
the Dean of Engineering degree in Telecommunications Systems, Rafael Melendreras, and CEO of Heritage, Computing and Telecommunications CARM, Miriam Perez.
According to the coordinator of Smart Campus, Rafael Melendreras, "is a technology campus, in order to present the most disruptive technologies currently on the market, such as 3D, Google Glass, Virtual Reality, all the technologies that are now very trendy, but not known cross much. "
Also Melendreras has stated that "the main objective is bringing them closer to the younger audience, which in the future want to study engineering and pursue technological innovation and to not only be aware of them through lectures, but also can access them by workshops in the afternoon, and come in direct contact with these new technologies. "
Moreover, the CEO of Neosistec (developer of Google Glass located in Murcia), Javier Pita, has lectured on the first year of Google Glass.
It has influenced the great development that has experienced this device "currently has multiple applications: activities like sports, kitchen, help for disabled, receive real time what is happening, use in surgical operations, among many others" .
He also said that "the balance of this year has been very positive, given that the facilities have been far greater than the disadvantages, in this sense is a disruptive technology."
A disruptive technology or disruptive innovation is an innovation that helps create a new market and value network, and eventually ends up 'disruptir' market and existing value network, displacing earlier technology.
Source: UCAM