Project Oxygen…

1. Project Oxygen… Shashwat Shriparv dwivedishashwat@gmail.com InfinitySoft

2. in this… • What it is… • Vision… • Challenges… • Approach… • Technologies… • Conclusion…

3. what it is… • An ongoing project by CSAIL (Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) at the MIT… • An ambitious global network proposal that was supposed to link 78 countries with more than 100,000 miles of optical fiber at a minimum transmission speed of 1.2Gbps.

4. vision… • human-centered computation • freely available • communicate naturally • boost our productivity

5. challenges… • pervasive • embedded • nomadic • adaptable • Powerful and efficient • intentional • eternal

6. Pervasive:- It must be everywhere • Embedded:- It must live in our world, sensing and affecting it • Nomadic:- It must allow users and computations to move around freely, according to their needs • Adaptable:- It must provide flexibility and spontaneity, in response to changes in user requirements and operating conditions

7. Powerful and efficient:- It must free itself from constraints imposed by bounded hardware resources, system constraints imposed by user demands and available power or communication bandwidth • Intentional:- It must enable people to name services and software objects by intent. Eg- “the nearest printer” should be understood to the system

8. Eternal:- It must never shut down or reboot; components may come and go in response to demand, errors, and upgrades, but Oxygen as a whole must be available all the time.

9. approach…

10. The technologies used here can be divided into two 1. User technologies 2. System technologies

11. Technologies…

12. device technologies … • embedded, handheld.. • network technologies … • networks.. • software technologies … • perceptual technologies… • speech, vision.. • user technologies … • automation, collaboration, knowledge access..

13. device technologies … • to communicate with people using natural perceptual resources, such as speech and vision… • to support Oxygen's user technologies wherever people may be… • to monitor and control their environment…

15. network technologies… • configure collaborative regions automatically, creating topologies & adapting them to mobility and change… • provide automatic resource and location discovery, without manual configuration & administration… • provide secure, authenticated, and private access to networked resources… • adapt to changing network conditions, including congestion, wireless errors, latency variations, and heterogeneous traffic …

16. software technologies… • building applications using composable, distributed components… • customizing, adapting, and altering component behavior… • replacing components, at different degrees of granularity, in a consistent fashion… • person-centric, rather than device-centric, security… • disconnected operation & nomadic code…

17. user technologies… • Knowledge access… • Automation… • Collaboration…

18. knowledge access.. • Data representation • Data acquisition • Automatic access methods • Human access methods • Automated observers

19. perceptual technologies… • Speech • Vision

20. speech • Speech recognition:- converts speech to a sentence of distinct words • Language understanding:- systematically represent meaning of recognized words • Language generator:- build sentences that present application generated data in the user’s preferred language • Speech synthesis:- converts sentences back to speech

22. vision • Visual perception subsystem • Visual rendering subsystem

23. applications… • Business applications • Medical field • Education

24. to conclude… • Big leap in human productivity… • Amplify human capabilities across the globe…

25. Thank You! Shashwat Shriparv dwivedishashwat@gmail.com InfinitySoft