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Explore advances in computing technology through time travel evaluation to prototype tomorrow's systems and understand weaknesses of existing technology. This large-scale experiment at UC Berkeley involves pervasive computing, service discovery, and smart spaces, aiming to enhance collaboration and user experience. Evaluate the impact on the CS Division community, experiment with new building-scale services, and pioneer innovative applications within the TomorrowLand framework. Join the Internet-Scale Systems Research Group to lead the evolution of the Internet, deploy real-world prototypes, and unify interdisciplinary research efforts for scalable, network-centric systems.
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Adventures in TomorrowLand Randy H. Katz United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
Time Travel Evaluate using today’s too expensive technology to prototype tomorrow’s systems existing technology to understand its weaknesses Design new computing systems architectures Deploy understand implementation complexities and sources of performance gain/loss Berkeley Tradition of Experimental Computing Systems Research
Large-Scale Experiment • Deploy/use pervasive computing infrastructure in Soda Hall • Evaluate impact on 200 person CS Division community • Information Broadcast Channels • Seminar announcements • Lecture content • News/sports/weather/stock ticker • Shared Information • Calendars • Room reservations • Collaborative note-taking & brainstorming • Smart spaces and device control • Controlling your environment as a new app
Large-Scale Experiment • Extensive trace collection to drive future designs • User mobility • Logging of PDA usage • Comprehensive user studies • (PDA-based) questionnaires • Research interests of key faculty members • User interface and other systems courses • Strong tradition of project-oriented courses • Student projects yielding innovative applications and services, extending the infrastructure • Large user community motivates students
New Application: Service Discovery • Adapt device functionality to services in new environment • Beacon augmentation • Adaptive user interfaces • Composed behaviors • Deployment within Soda classrooms and MASH CoLab • Light, video, slide projector, VCR, audio receiver, camera, monitor, A/V switcher control • Local DNS/NTP/SMTP servers, HTTP proxies, RTP/multicast gateways • Audited printer access • Interactive floor maps, protocols for advertising object locations • Coarse-grained user tracking Universal Interaction?
Network Infrastructure Experimental Testbed Fax IBM WorkPad Image/OCR Text Speech MC-16 Ericsson CF788 Motorola Pagewriter 2000 WLAN Pager 306 Soda 405 Soda 326 Soda “Colab” GSM BTS Millennium Cluster Smart Spaces Personal Information Management Millennium Cluster
“TomorrowLand” • Cooperative buildings: flexible/dynamic environment providing cooperative workspaces supporting/augmenting human communications and collaboration • 5000 sq. ft. in “prototype pod” space next door to Soda Hall • To house Internet systems researchers: faculty, students, support staff, industrial visitors • Flexible floor plan to enhance collaboration • Reconfigurable architectural spaces/roll around furniture • Wireless connectivity for computers and phones • Minimal physical building infrastructure enables experimentation with new building-scale services • Smart spaces and computer-integrated environmental controls • Prototype for new on-campus buildings
Project Synergies TranSend TACC Model Wireless Access NINJA Scalable, Secure Services Computation in the Network “Smart Spaces” as an app Event-Response Programmable Access BARWAN Wireless Overlay Networks Scalable Proxies RTPGateway Service Discovery vic, vat, wb MASH Collaboration Applications Active Services NOW/Millennium Computing Platform MASH Toolkit Active Services Model
Mission Statement: Internet-Scale Systems Research Group Lead the evolution of the Internet through fundamental protocol and network-centric systems research • Ground research in real-world prototypes that are deployed across diverse user communities • Unify on-going and future research projects • Facilitate technology transfer and standardization • Work closely with industrial partners in an open laboratory environment
Strategy • Leverage interdisciplinary systems expertise in network-based applications, scalable services, network-connected computing platforms • Work collaboratively across applications, OS, networks, architecture • Interact closely with industry, to obtain early access to leading edge technologies and facilitate tech transfer • Cultivate ties with Bay Area network and systems research community
Internet-Scale Systems • Extremely large, complex, distributed, heterogeneous, with continuous and rapid introduction of new technologies • Feasible architectures • Decentralized, scalable algorithms • Dynamically deployed agents where they are needed • Incremental processing/communications growth • Cross-layer protocol design and optimization • Prototyping, deployment, evaluation, experimentation
Benefits of Sponsorship • Involvement with outstanding Berkeley graduate students • Participation in a portfolio of large-scale, inter-disciplinary, pre-competitive research efforts with only modest investment, leveraging investment of other industrial partners • Access to all ISRG-developed software, prototypes, simulation tools, and testbeds • Early access to group’s research results through on-campus participation and retreats • Support the expansion of cadre of researchers with expertise in Internet-scale systems
Intellectual Property Issues • All ISRG results are placed in the public domain • Widely disseminated and distributed for educational and research purposes • Research reports, Web site • Sponsors can receive non-exclusive, no-fee licenses for commercialization • Only sponsors participate in twice yearly retreats • To encourage an open research environment, ISRG researchers would prefer not to sign non-disclosure agreements
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