Oxygen:
Total current investment - $1M/yr for 3yrs beginning 4/01/00
HP contact - Fred Kitson
MIT contact - Randall Davis
Oxygen is one of four Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funded expedition projects in ubiquitious computing. MIT will receive $38M from DARPA over the next five years to create their vision of pervasive computing. HP will join Nokia, Phillips, and Delta Electronics as corporate members of the program. The objective of the project from Laboratory of Computer Science (LCS) Director, Michael Dertouzos is to "allow people to do more by doing less" in other words make computing intuitive and pervasive.
D-Space:
Total current investment at MIT - $1.8M/2yrs beginning 7/1/00
HP contact - Mick Bass
MIT contact - Ann Wolpert
HP and MIT are working to build a $1.8 million digital archive at MIT capable of holding the approximately 10,000 articles produced by MIT authors annually, including a large amount of multimedia content. The purpose of this project is to develop a scalable digital archive with storage, submission, retrieval, searching, access control, rights management and publishing capabilities. In addition to establishing the research team at the university, HP Labs is providing the university with $1.8 million to cover staff, equipment and space.
Media Lab Relationship:
Total current investment - $750k/yr for 5yrs beginning 7/1/01
HP contacts - Howard Taub, Phil Kuekes, Gary Herman
MIT contacts - Neil Gershenfeld, Ike Chuang
HP has been a member of the Media Lab since 1992, when Joel Birnbaum seeded Neil Gershenfeld's Physics and Media Lab. HP has recently become a Corporate Research Sponsor, which gives us automatic membership in all the consortia here at the Lab. This is a result of launching a major program in Nano-assembled Quantum Computers that is listed below as a major program. This effort and HP's interest in the Digital Nations program brought us to the level required ($750k) to attain the Corporate Research Sponsor status.
eBusiness@MIT Center:
Total current investment - $300k/yr for 3yrs
HP contacts - John Ediger, Sharon Beach
MIT contacts - Gabriel Bitran, Peter Metz
This goal of this center is to provide to sponsoring companies thought leadership on eBusiness, real-time education at both the Masters and Executive Education levels, leading edge research which is both rigorous and relevant, and recognition as a leader in defining the future of eBusiness. HP is funding a research project in Two-Tier Support Business Models, and one in Internet Pricing. We are in the process of finalizing a project in Supportability Models for Always in Infrastructure.
Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium:
Total current investment - $100k/yr
HP Contacts - Steve Wright
MIT Contacts - Dave Clark, Sharon Eisner-Gillette
HP Labs Internet and Mobile Services Lab is a participating member of the Internet and Telecommunications Convergence Consortium (ITC), directed by David Clark. The ITC consists of member firms and selected academics who collaborate on research into technical, economic, strategic and policy issues that arise from the convergence of telecommunications and the Internet. The ITC has a research focus on internet telephony appliances and applications that maps well into HP's vision of anytime, anywhere connectivity.
Spoken Language Systems Group:
Total current investment - $100k/yr
HP Contacts - Steve Hinde, Marianne Hickey
MIT Contact - Victor Zue
HP Labs Voice Browsing Group located in Bristol England has been an affiliate member of the Spoken Language Systems Group at the Laboratory for Computer Science since November 1999. This group develops human language technologies for speech based interfaces that enable the computer to serve as a conversational partner to the user. The VoiceWeb project at HP Labs has received considerable value in this relationship. Most notably the ability to collaborate with leading experts such as Victor Zue to evaluate HP's current spoken language technology and to provide a forum to develop the future of speech interfaces.
W3C:
Total current investment - $250k/yr
HP Contacts - Jim Bell, Art Barstow
MIT Contact - Daniel Weitzner
HP has had significant involvement led by Jim Bell, general manager of Open Source and Linux Operations in the activities of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) . W3C, founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the Web, was created to develop common protocols to ensure the evolution and interoperability of the web. From the onset, HP also has been directly involved in the development of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and instrumental in initiating the work on Extensible Markup Language (XML), and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) all of which are integral to enabling access to information across the world and connecting Internet devices and appliances to the Web. Art Barstow is a full-time HP employee who works here at MIT and is a member of the Technology and Society Domain area, managed by Danny Weitzner.
Leaders for Manufacturing:
Total current investment - $25k/yr
HP Contacts - Bill Crandall, Barrett Crane
HP was a founding sponsor of the Leaders for Manufacuring (LFM) program and continues to stay active as a managing partner. The current activity with LFM is led by HP's Product Processes Organization. HP's involvement has helped shape the program, sponsored many student internships and allowed HP to recruit many leaders into HP.
Wireless Networking for Mobile Appliances:
Total current investment -$750k/yr for 3 years beginning 7/1/01
HP contact - Susie Wee
MIT contact - Greg Wornell
This research project is to explore interlayer optimization technologies that help enable and optimize data and media communication to heterogeneous mobile clients over wireless networks. While computation and storage capabilities are increasing at an incredible rate, a fundamental limitation of end-to-end mobile wireless systems is the available spectrum, and other limitations include infrastructure resources and client capabilities. Thus, efficient and deliberate allocation and use of the available resources is critical to creating a successful end-to-end architecture and system for wireless networking for mobile appliances.
Nanoassembled Quantum Computer:
Total current investment - $500k/yr for 5 years beginning 7/1/01
HP contact - Phil Kuekes
MIT contacts - Neil Gershenfeld, Ike Chuang, Seth Lloyd
This joint research team plans to experimentally develop a large-scale quantum computer by combining the best of the liquid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and solid-state semiconductor approaches, based on their expertise in molecular nanofabrication and NMR quantum computation, plus two radically new ideas: a molecular spin latch for output state measurement, and a dynamically reconfigurable parallel architecture for defect-tolerant dynamics. These ideas directly address the known problems with existing solid-state quantum computer designs. Thisinvestment in the quantum information research program will allow HP and MIT to establish a leading position in a scalable quantum computing technology.
MIT Infrastructure Project
Total investment - $460k
HP contact - Rob Oyung
MIT contact - Hal Abelson
This is a collaboration beginning between HP and MIT to help MIT transform their core academic computing infrastructure to a mobile, service-centric 'one-to-one' computing environment. This team will work to create technology and processes that will help MIT and HP realize this vision of computing. Initial areas of focus are: heterogeneous client devices, transportable user environments, Common Operating Environment (COE) for application management, security, service-level architecture, and total cost of ownership. This project was seeded with a grant (link to Mobility proposal) of 125 Omnibook computers (value $460k) from the HP philanthropy program, to launch a pilot mobile computing project at MIT fall (2001).
SIMILE - (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata in onLine Environments)
HP contact - Mick Bass
MIT contact - David Karger
This is the follow-on work to the DSpace program and the intention is to use the digital archive as a testbed for new exciting research in the area of information management. This project is a mix of applied and basic research to understand issues and create compelling case demonstrations at the intersection of: institutional information management and digital asset management, personal and collaborative information management, and the semantic web. The objective is to enhance the interoperability among assets, schemas, metadata and services across distributed individual, community and institutional stores; and across value chains that provide useful services by drawing upon the assets, schemas and metadata held in such stores.
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