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Pervasive Computing (H) Spring 2003 Instructors: Prof.
Anant Agarwal (agarwal@mit.edu) and Dr. Umar Saif (umar@mit.edu) Staff: Cornelia Colyer (colyer@cag.lcs.mit.edu) Time: TTh 2:30-4:00
P.M. Place: 36-156 Prerequisites: 6.004, 6.033 3-0-9 Course Description Rapid advances in digital electronics have made computers
faster, cheaper, and smaller. Similar progress in communications technology
has provided users virtually unlimited bandwidth, anywhere and at any time.
The resulting combination of virtually free computation and ubiquitous network
access has fueled the new domain of pervasive computing. Much as the
advancement of earlier technologies enabled pervasive access to water, gas,
and electricity, it is now becoming increasingly practical to define similar
environments for ubiquitous computation and communication. Pervasive computing envisions
environments richly lathered with computation, communication and networked
devices, mobile users interacting with their environment using speech and
vision, with secure access to personal or public data. Pervasive computing environments
will not simply be stand-alone vehicles for number crunching, rather they
will immerse their users in a triad of invisible computation, communication
and devices, working in concert to satisfy user requirements according to the
facilities available in the environment. This course will study the mechanisms and environments of
pervasive computing. Topics include computer and network architectures for
pervasive computing, mobile computing mechanisms, human-computer interaction
using speech and vision, pervasive software systems, location mechanisms,
practical techniques for security and user-authentication, and experimental
pervasive computing systems. We will meet twice a week for a mixture of lectures and
class discussions of assigned readings. Grades will be based on class
participation and a course project. Each student will present one or more
assigned papers and lead a class discussion. Projects can be performed
individually or in groups. Enrollment may be limited. |
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