IBM Pervasive Computing Visit Jan 7, 1999

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IBM Pervasive Computing VisitJan 7, 1999

• David E. Culler
• Computer Science Division
• U.C. Berkeley

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June 9, 1998 - Looking Forward ...

• What kinds of problems should Computer Science
  research be focusing on?

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Future Internet-Scale Systems

• 10 Billion of Information Appliances
• 100 Million of Stationary Computers
• Million Scalable Servers

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Millennium Testbed (started 9/97)
Business
SIMS
BMRC
Chemistry
C.S.
E.E.
Biology
Gigabit Ethernet
Astro
NERSC
M.E.
Physics
N.E.
Math
IEOR
Transport
Economy
C. E.
MSME
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Expanding the Vision

• Small devices will be pervasive.
• They can be powerful when they draw upon the
  infrastructure.
• How do they change they way we think and work and
  learn?
• cuts through many research areas

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Partnership gt Testbed for I.S. Research
Wireless Infrastructure
Future Devices
PDAs
Cell Phones
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Millennium Ninja Iceberg Mash ISRG

• Ninja
• DARPA funded project developing platform
  architecture for scalable, available internet
  services
• Powerful services on small devices with
  intelligence in the infrastructure
• Iceberg
• Ericsson funded project on Computer / Telephony
  integration
• MASH
• DARPA funded project developing a scalable
  multimedia architecturem for collaborations
• also active research on novel user interfaces

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Fall 1998 Experiment

• IBM donated 150 workpads
• researchers working directly on the projects
  (above) key staff
• CS160 undergrad user interface course
• All first year CS grad students about 20 more
• Diffused across activities, rather than focused
  on a project
• Promote PostPC Bazaar
• let students discover key challenges and new
  directions
• Participants build their own pervasive
  infrastructure
• gt Leading to a major new Expedition

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Plan for Today

• 2 - 3 Poster Sessions Demos to see the seeds of
  activity
• 3 - 4 Presentations to pull together the
  activities
• 4 - 5 Discussion on where to go next and how
• 5 - 6 Faculty Clubs with Dean Gray

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Posters Demos

• E-Commerce and Security
• Pay-Per-Use Services on the Palm Computing
  Platform (Mike Chen, Andrew Geweke)
• Secure Email Infrastructure for PDAs (Hoon Kang,
  Rob von Behren)
• SyncAnywhere - Secure Network HotSync (Mike Chen,
  Helen Wang)
• Groupware
• Kiretsu - Ninja Instant Messaging Service (Matt
  Welsh, Steve Gribble)
• The MASH MediaPad - Shared Electronic Whiteboard
  for the PalmPilot (Yatin Chawathe)
• NotePals - Lightweight Meeting Support Using PDAs
  (Richard Davis)
• OSKI - Open Shared Kalendaring Infrastructure
  (Jason Hong, Brad Morrey, Mark Newman)
• OS and Communications
• PalmRouter - Networking Sporadically Connected
  Devices (Andras Ferencz, Robert Szewczyk)
• CS160 Projects
• Ink Chat
• Nutrition/Excercise Tracker
• Rendezvous - Meeting Scheduler